Queer Detainee Empowerment Project — press for his release.Nor is Paul alone in this experience. There are many other LGBTQ+ immigrants and asylum-seekers with similar stories.
Everyone’s case is unique, but common themes run throughout their encounters with the immigration bureaucracy: lives and aspirations cut short and thrown into turmoil by arrest and deportation; cruel and traumatic separatons from family and loved ones; violence and discrimination at the hands of their adopted homeland.Faby Federick was a Black transgender woman who escaped trauma and exploitation in Costa Rica to come to the United States.
She survived homelessness, a global pandemic, and health problems, all while working hard to learn English, prepare for the high.