After winning a months-long custody battle, Heury Gomez eagerly awaited the day he’d bring his disabled son, hospitalized for the past seven years, back home to his Manhattan apartment.

But his plans collapsed five months later when Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents detained Gomez, 43 , on Aug. 5, and later transferred him to a Michigan detention center.

“We’ve been able to schedule like video calls, and when Noah recognizes his dad on the calls, he gets really happy, but at the same time he kind of makes an expression, looking like, ‘Where are you? Kind of like why have you abandoned me? Why haven’t I seen you?’” Gomez’ cousin Carolina Zapata said.

“This is probably the longest stretch of time he has gone without seeing his dad. That’s hard. It gets us really emotional whe

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