Somali Parents Agonize Over Missing Migrants

FILE - Somali migrant Amsa, 16, last name not available, watches the sunset as he stands aboard a ferry leaving the Sicilian Island of Lampedusa, Oct. 7, 2013. Nasteha Mohamed Hassan's parents have been searching for her for years. (Courtesy Hassan family)

On September 27, 2009, Abdulkadir Mohamud called his mother in Columbus, Ohio, to tell her he was boarding a boat from Libya that evening, along with his cousin Nasteha Mohamed Hassan to reach Italy.