His mother's cancer is now in remission. But she's also now been in ICE custody for over two months. Now, he's fighting to stop her from being deported.
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00:00It's heartbreaking. I don't know what other word, you know, like any son or daughter would feel
00:06if their mother is going through something like this.
00:25She would not be able to receive any significant care there. And so it would
00:29yeah, it's we expect if that does happen to for health to decline and then not be able to receive
00:34any any any sort of adequate care. It very rapidly grew into stage four, which is what
00:42prompted to like a very immediate, I don't know, for emergency surgery, which basically cut across
00:48from the back side of her left neck to the other side. So she still so she lost a lot of tissue
00:53in the skin in general, limiting her mobility. She's lost a few teeth and many of them are
00:58damaged. So she has trouble eating still. I mean, at first it was really bad when she couldn't even
01:02eat anything. We you know, we we made her fruit and vegetable like shakes. And so she's you know,
01:09she's still in recovery. She's still healing. And that's one of the aspects that we're trying to
01:12highlight. And then her health has only gotten worse since the detention center.
01:16She's developed a vitamin B12 deficiency since then, which the doctors there have diagnosed.
01:21And they didn't give her a proper medication until our attorney intervened. Everyone there
01:26has to eat in 10 minutes. So I mean, that's for everybody, right? But especially for her,
01:31because of the mass situation I mentioned. So she receives no type of special accommodation
01:36for her situation. And there's no privacy, of course, but lights are only off for like three
01:40or four hours during the night. And in general, she's not seeing it. She's not getting any
01:44oncological care. She missed her appointment in September because she was detained. So we have
01:49no idea where her cancer is right now because we haven't been able to get her checked.
02:03So
02:17she only completed sixth grade, but my intellectual drive has been from her. Like
02:21she's always told me like, oh, you know, I really like learning about historia and
02:26otras culturas. She's always said that. And you know, it just so happens that I, you know,
02:30I'm getting a degree in history. So I always say that, you know, I, my interest in history,
02:34history is literally because of her, but also just seeing her hard work and her work ethic
02:37in general, as, as, as an immigrant, make it into a new country with that doesn't want you or like
02:43you, you know, and she's only ever, her only goal has been to make our life better, you know,
02:48because she definitely made her life worse by doing what she did.