Tag: ICE

U.S. Customs and Border Protection agents at the El Paso Processing Center, a facility operated by ICE, allegedly forced a Honduran migrant to walk around carrying a handwritten sign reading “I like men” in Spanish. According to CNN, the alleged act was meant to humiliate the man, and a CBP agent reported the March 5 incident to his supervisor via email. “This report has been made and is currently under investigation,” an El Paso CBP spokesman said in an email,...

A transgender woman who came to the U.S. seeking asylum has died after Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) held her in custody for six weeks. Johana Medina Leon, 25, was came to the U.S. from El Salvador, waiting three months in Juarez, Mexico, before being allowed in the U.S. Friends told NBC News that she was seeking asylum to escape violence as a transgender woman. Medina Leon was held in ICE custody since April and on May 18 she received a...