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The trio of judges unanimously agreed to move Ridley forward, and throughout the competition she continued to showcase her vocal abilities by performing hits by Creedence Clearwater Revival and Gladys Knight.

Gladys Bautista, the boy’s mother, wore a soccer jersey and said her son “didn’t need to be treated like an animal. That was my son,” she said in Spanish.

To be sure, this is not what Maximillian Joseph Thomulka and his wife, Gladys Thomulka, imagined when they built and opened the place in the aftermath of World War II.

Nelson and Gladys Gonzalez lived in the United States illegally for decades, working hard and raising a family while regularly checking in with Immigration Customs and Enforcement as part of an agreement to remain in the country.

In the summer of 1998, an immigration judge also found that Gladys Gonzalez, 55, had no legal basis to stay.