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  • ‘My Life Is Falling Apart’

    ‘My Life Is Falling Apart’

    In El Monte, California, a mother is living every parent’s nightmare—detained by ICE despite no criminal record, leaving her daughter, Xitlali, to fight bone cancer alone.

    Yolanda, 50, and her son Johnathan were recently taken into custody, leaving her daughter, Xitlali, 21, without a caregiver.

    “Ma, it’s okay. You didn’t do anything,” Xitlali said as she tried to comfort her mother. Captured on video, the heartbreaking moment showed ICE agents handcuffing Yolanda, who, through tears, could only respond, “But they’re going to take me away.”

    Agents allegedly refused to show a warrant despite the family’s pleas. Then, without warning, they grabbed Johnathan.

    “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,” Xitlali recalled per local news.

    With no criminal record, Yolanda was Xitlali’s lifeline and provided the essential care her daughter couldn’t live without, family members said.

    “When I’m taking chemo I feel very, very bad, I can’t do anything, I can’t even wake up properly, I’m half asleep. She helps me, she bathes me, she changes me, she makes my food,” Xitlali explained.

    Johnathan had served time for a crime nearly a decade ago, but his sister believes he was unfairly targeted.

    Yolanda, on the other hand, appears to be a “collateral detention”—a practice where ICE detains individuals who happen to be present during enforcement actions.

    “There would be a possibility, if ICE grants a certain pardon that would allow the mother to fight her case in court instead of staying in detention, but that would be based on a humanitarian issue and doesn’t guarantee they would let her in the country,” the family’s attorney, David Acalin, said.

    With her mother and brother locked away in separate centers, Xitlali is left without the two people she depends on most

    ​​”I feel like my life is falling apart,” she said.

    Rather than give up, she’s channeling her fight into online fundraising, determined to be reunited.

    ICE has yet to provide any comment on the case.

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  • 21-Year-Old Warns After Throwing Up Blood, Falling In Coma From Continuous Vaping

    21-Year-Old Warns After Throwing Up Blood, Falling In Coma From Continuous Vaping

    It was a “touch and go” experience for a 21-year-old U.K. man who spent two weeks in a coma after his lungs collapsed and he began throwing up blood from continuous vaping at work. After the harrowing experience, with only one functioning lung and doctors warning that continuing to vape would mean he would not live past 40, the young father cautions: ‘Vaping is not worth your life.’

    James Johnson, a bouncer from Blackpool, England, had a habit of continuously puffing on his vape while working at a nightclub. This routine took a dangerous turn last May when he suddenly began vomiting blood and was rushed to intensive care. Diagnosed with bilateral pneumonia caused by chemicals from his vapes entering his lungs, Johnson fell into a coma and was left hospitalized for three months.

    “They kept telling my partner that it was touch and go. It was very mentally straining in hospital but the first couple of weeks, I didn’t know I was there. I couldn’t walk for the first couple of weeks and it was even worse because I was awake and couldn’t talk, walk or eat,” Johnson recollected.

    Johnson was lucky to survive the pneumonia thanks to his young age, but it took months for him to recover and reach his current state. “A lot of people can live with one lung, but it’s about how I make different life choices. You don’t realize the dangers until something big happens. I’m lucky to be back and independent,” Johnson said.

    Despite his recovery, doctors have warned him against smoking, vaping, or anything that could further harm his lungs.

    “If I go back to vaping or smoking or I don’t look after my body, then I won’t make it past 40. To be honest, I’m glad I found out now because it could have happened in 10 or 20 years and my body wouldn’t have been fit enough to survive it,” Johnson said.

    Johnson now works as a youth support worker, raising awareness about the dangers of vaping among people who do not realize the extend of complications: “Having a vape is not worth your life. Read up about what you are smoking before you smoke it. Don’t think that because of your age, that it won’t happen to you. I was only 20 years old and I nearly lost my life,” he warns.

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