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Trans detainees file complaint detailing extreme abuse & neglect at ICE facility
“I think it is intentionally bad here. It is a way to get people to give up on themselves.”
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Court rules Honduran trans woman who spent 3 years in ICE custody should have been granted asylum
“Any reasonable adjudicator would be compelled to find a pattern or practice of persecution against Transgender women in Honduras.”
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House Democrats call for release of trans & HIV positive detainees from ICE facilities
Under Biden, ICE policy now calls for releasing pregnant people and families detained together. House members and advocates want that same consideration for trans people and people living with HIV.
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ICE faces class action lawsuit for holding transgender migrants in COVID-19 “death traps”
The lawsuit demands the release of all transgender detainees currently being held by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
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Judge orders US to return illegally deported gay asylum seeker before he’s killed
ICE deported him to Africa before his case had been heard. It may be too late to bring him back now.
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ICE continues to detain gay asylum-seeker without review, going against federal ruling
Darwin Bartillo crossed into America legally with his life partner and younger brother. Now, he’s caged in a homophobic environment, while his partner fights for him and his brother’s freedom.
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ICE destroyed video footage of a transgender asylum-seeker who mysteriously died in custody
She came to the U.S. to escape gangs but died in ICE custody under mysterious circumstances. Now key evidence in her wrongful death suit has been destroyed.
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Donald Trump says he stands ‘in solidarity with LGBTQ people’ (as long as they’re not American)
His “solidarity” doesn’t extend far enough to give LGBTQ asylum seekers visas or allow U.S. embassies to fly rainbow flags.
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A second transgender woman held by ICE for weeks has died & they’re denying responsibility again
She came seeking asylum to escape violence as a trans woman, but ICE denies responsibility, saying she was just “an individual who illegally enter[ed] the United States with an untreated, unscreened medical condition.”
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Commentary
Customs officials are putting numbers on refugees’ arms like Nazis did to Jews & gays
For persons who have already experienced and suffered unfathomable horrors, this further increases their trauma – while it shows an utter lack of historical perspective.