The mother of the Boston bombing suspects said in a tearful phone call with ABC News this evening that she and her husband plan to travel to the United States to visit their younger son, who was arrested on Friday evening.

Zubeidat Tsarnaeva said she fears 19-year-old Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, who is suspected of planting two bombs at Monday’s Boston Marathon along with his older brother Tamerlan, will receive the death penalty.

“I lost two sons,” she said. “My family is in the dirt.”…

“They were all afraid of Tamerlan,” his mother said, referring to the U.S. government. “They wanted to eliminate him as a threat because he was in love with Islam. For the last five years they were following him.”