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A 6-year-old Costa Rican boy was rescued by U.S. Border Patrol agents after he was abandoned on a border road in Arizona on Tuesday evening. The agents discovered the boy just north of the border west of Lukeville in temperatures over 100 degrees. The child claimed that he was dropped off by "his uncle" and that Border Patrol would pick him up.

An attorney for a gay Costa Rican immigrant married to a U.S. citizen plans to ask a Houston judge on Thursday to halt deportation proceedings while the courts weigh the future of a federal law forbidding marriage between same-sex partners. David Gonzalez, a 35-year-old accountant from Costa Rica who overstayed his tourist visa, is scheduled to appear before a Houston immigration judge Thursday morning, accompanied by his partner, U.S. citizen Mario Ramirez, whom he married in California in 2008