About two-dozen people attended a protest at the 16th and Mission Street BART station in San Francisco March 19, calling for the release of all transgender people in United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement custody.
The protest comes on the heels of a letter from formerly-detained trans people seeking freedom for those still in ICE custody. "We are fighting and trying to rescue the people in the hands of ICE, facing deportation, who are trans and especially those who are HIV-positive," Victoria Castro, a trans activist with the San Francisco-based El/La Para Trans Latinas, said in remarks translated from Spanish.