‘Paquito,’ 7, separated from family crossing border

By Philip Rosenbaum
New York (CNN) — On December 7, 1993, at around midnight, a 7-year-old boy named Jose Fuentes slipped through a hole in a high metal fence, crossing from Northern Mexico into Southern California.

Jose Fuentes is shown as a child, and how he might look now, at age 23.

Jose, with his two teenage brothers, a sister and an aunt, had finally reached the United States border after a harrowing month-long journey of more than 2,000 miles from El Salvador.
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