Posted on 03/02/2025 8:07:47 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
An undocumented mother is now in federal custody along with her undocumented son after ICE detained them, sending shockwaves through a family in El Monte, California.
The family says the mother doesn’t have a criminal background, and she is the primary caretaker for her daughter Xitlali, who is battling cancer.
Friends and relatives of the detainees held a protest this Thursday against the detention. The demonstrators say they are outraged with the way ICE, without apparent explanation, placed them in their custody.
“Ma' it's okay. You didn't do anything,” said the Xitlali, while the mother tearfully responded, ”But they're going to take me away.”
As she was handcuffed by ICE agents outside her home in El Monte, Yolanda, 50, cried inconsolably, not understanding why she is being taken away. As she recorded with her cellphone, one of her four children demanded the detention order from the agents, who ignored the request.
Moments later, the same thing happened with Johnathan, Yolanda's son.
“They pushed him into the car and without questions they grabbed him, they were telling him that he had the warrant but he didn't show it,” said Xitlali, a U.S. citizen.
Both remain in different detention centers. Leaving Xitlali, who suffers from bone cancer, without her two pillars.
Her brother was the one who worked to pay for the family's needs. According to Xitlali, her brother was targeted by the authorities for a crime for which he paid a sentence approximately 10 years ago and her mother, she says, is what they call a collateral detention.
Unfortunately, there is little hope that they will be able to stay in the country, says their attorney.
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It sucks that when You’re a criminal and your illegal relatives get swept up because of your crimes. You all were warned.
Don’t care.
Can’t make me.
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I’m retired and I still pay a good deal of money to Medicare and my supplemental as well.
Wonder what these folk pay for healthcare?
And when will we see memes of Trump deporting Elon Gonzales? Oh wait, wrong Elon.
“An undocumented mother...”
“The family says the mother doesn’t have a criminal background...”
Excuse me? She certainly does.
THEY CAN GO BACK AS A “FAMILY”.
They’re illegal.
So yes, that does make them criminals.
Pronto.
Exactly, don’t separate them, deport them all together.
Correct!
My thoughts exactly.
It’s a shame she WASN’T deported back then.
One of the thousand sob stories waiting to be told.
🎻🎻
Health care is not a right. Not a Human right, not a Civil right. It’s a privilege and one you have to pay for one way or another. I wish the daughter wasn’t sick but I can’t help that she is. Mom and son were here illegally and I’d bet they knew it. It sucks but they can’t be surprised. I also wish we didn’t have to have good men standing in the gap between us and evil but I’m glad they are there.
“The family SAYS the mother doesn’t have a criminal background”
Sure.
Another day another sob story.....
Get out of my country, invaders!
Notice how the headlines are never: “Woman battling terminal cancer and supplementing her income by dumpster diving is taxed to support Illegal alien’s cell phone service and luxury hotel room.”
That’s true...the do it at my sister’s hospital...fsee ride downtown.
Mexico has cancer doctors too.
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