 They were celebrating a birthday, but they were also saying goodbye. The day after the party, Jose would take a plane and a bus to the Mexican border and then attempt to cross the desert into the United States. His goal was to reunite with his three young children who lived in Las Vegas with their mother. Jose missed them terribly, and for years he had dreamed of being near them again. But just seven days after his party, Jose was dead in a U.S. immigration detention center.