Melba Soza
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In this Monday, Dec. 30, 2013 photo, Melba Soza leaves the Bilbao airport, in Bilbao, Spain, after saying goodbye to her son Jose Antonio on his way back to the United States. (AP Photo/Alvaro Barrientos)
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In this Sunday, Dec. 29, 2013 photo, Melba Soza adjusts the jacket of her son Jose Antonio in Basauri, Spain. (AP Photo/Alvaro Barrientos)
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In this Sunday, Dec. 29, 2013 photo, Melba Soza plays dominoes with her son Jose Antonio, bottom right, while sharing the table with a few friends in a bar in Basauri, Spain. (AP Photo/Alvaro Barrientos)
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In this Sunday, Dec. 29, 2013 photo, Melba Soza walks with her son Jose Antonio, down a long a street in Basauri, Spain. (AP Photo/Alvaro Barrientos)
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In this Sunday, Dec. 29, 2013 photo, Jose Antonio checks his computer, as his mother Melba Soza, stands in the background, in Basauri, Spain. After being deported from the U.S., Melba moved from Nicaragua to Spain, and found a job caring for the elderly. Through Facebook, she watched his transformation from boy into man and activist, through the many pictures of him staging protests and meeting politicians. (AP Photo/Alvaro Barrientos)
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In this Wednesday, Dec. 25, 2013 photo, Melba Soza holds a graduation photo of her son, Jose Antonio, at her apartment in Basauri, Spain during his five-day visit. The last time he saw his mother in the U.S., she was dressed in an orange jumpsuit, wrists in handcuffs at a Miami courthouse. Machado was brought to Miami as an undocumented immigrant from Nicaragua when he was six years old. He grew up in Miami with his mother who was also undocumented. She was deported in 2011 after a traffic stop on the drive home from work. (AP Photo/Alvaro Barrientos)
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In this Wednesday, Dec. 25, 2013 photo, Melba Soza sits next to her son Jose Antonio as he unpacks his luggage in an apartment in Basauri, Spain. They had five days together, spent seeing the sites of Bilbao and taking in a movie and catching up on time missed. She told him she worried that she’d been a disappointment: "I feel ... like I have failed as a mother for being deported." But Jose reassured her. "My mother has gone through a storm, but she doesn’t lose sight of the sun," he said. (AP Photo/Alvaro Barrientos)
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In this Wednesday, Dec. 25, 2013 photo, Melba Soza comforts her son Jose Antonio, as he arrives at the Bilbao, Spain, airport from the United States. "I was afraid you would have lost the love for your mother," she told him. "I was afraid you’d look at me like a stranger," he said. (AP Photo/Alvaro Barrientos)
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ADVANCE FOR USE SATURDAY, FEB. 8, 2014 AND THEREAFTER - In this Monday, Dec. 30, 2013 photo, Melba Soza leaves the Bilbao airport, in Bilbao, Spain, after saying goodbye to her son Jose Antonio on his way back to the United States. (AP Photo/Alvaro Barrientos)
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ADVANCE FOR USE SATURDAY, FEB. 8, 2014 AND THEREAFTER - In this Sunday, Dec. 29, 2013 photo, Melba Soza adjusts the jacket of her son Jose Antonio in Basauri, Spain. (AP Photo/Alvaro Barrientos)
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ADVANCE FOR USE SATURDAY, FEB. 8, 2014 AND THEREAFTER - In this Sunday, Dec. 29, 2013 photo, Melba Soza plays dominoes with her son Jose Antonio, bottom right, while sharing the table with a few friends in a bar in Basauri, Spain. (AP Photo/Alvaro Barrientos)
