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When Survival Becomes a Crime: Yolanda Magallón Pérez, Family Separation, and the Cost of a Broken System

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03/18/2025
Episode Notes – “When Survival Becomes a Crime: Yolanda Magallón Pérez, Family Separation, and the Cost of a Broken System”
Episode Overview:
In this episode of Our Humanity TALKS, we examine the case of Yolanda Magallón Pérez, a mother who was detained by ICE in California, ripped away from her 21-year-old daughter battling bone cancer. Her arrest wasn’t about national security, nor was it about justice—it was about a crime of survival, a theft of food over a decade ago.
Yolanda’s story isn’t an a...