HUNTINGTON STATION, N.Y. (AP) — On a recent breezy summer day, 7-year-old Kevin Torres played soccer with his neighbors in the front yard of his two-story home on New York’s Long Island as his mother watched nearby.

It’s a typical suburban sight, but not for Briseida Flores, who had been separated from her son for most of the boy’s life until he crossed the U.S.-Mexico border in May with the help of a smuggler who crossed the Rio Grande River with Kevin strapped to his back.