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Out in the World: Senate questions Biden admin about protecting LGBTQ asylum seekers

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Pressure is mounting for President Joe Biden's administration regarding protecting LGBTQ refugees and asylum seekers. Senator Amy Klobuchar (D-Minnesota) led the charge in an August 2 letter signed by 12 Democratic Senate colleagues to Secretary of State Antony Blinken questioning what was being done to protect LGBTQI+ refugees and asylum seekers.

The letter comes after more than a year of reports about violent protests against assaults and deadly attacks on LGBTQ refugees in Kenya's Kakuma Refugee Camp; rapes, murders, overcrowding at LGBTQ shelters; and an electrical fire at one of the shelters that displaced 152 queer migrants at the United States-Mexico border. "The United States has been a beacon of hope for many LGBTQ migrants

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