Tag: Immigration and Customs Enforcement
A second transgender woman held by ICE for weeks has died & they’re denying...
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...
The Trump administration is putting LGBTQ immigrants in solitary confinement
New documents reveal that Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is putting thousands of immigrants into solitary confinement because they’re LGBTQ, disabled, or report abuse from guards, not because they’re violating any rules in detention.
The documents show that ICE used solitary confinement frequently between March 2012 and March 2017, possibly in violation of its own policies. Only half of the thousands of people who had extended stays in solitary confinement were there because they broke a rule.
About one-third of people...
