Johana Medina Leon

Rep. Mike Quigley is behind a letter with over 40 Democrat signatures that requests that ICE either complies with its own regulations or release all trans inmates.

Hong Kong-born trans man Yuen “Chin” Tzu has been transferred to a different facility after he spent 19 months in a tiny cell with poor medical care.

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.”