Tag: transgender asylum seekers
ICE finally releases Asian trans man from solitary confinement after 19 months
Earlier this month, Yuen “Chin” Tzu, a trans man from Hong Kong, was released from the Irwin County Immigration Detention Center in central Georgia where he had been held for 19 months in solitary confinement. Although he has since been relocated to a detainment facility in Dallas, Texas, the fate of his deportation proceedings remain unclear.
The National Queer Asian Pacific Islander Alliance (NQAPIA) pressed for Tzu’s release (and for an end to trans solitary confinement in general) using a...
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...
