Tag: seeker

Safe in America: LGBTQI+ Asylum Seeker Shot in Chicago Gun Violence

April 12, 2023

By Melanie Nathan, April 12, 2023. Jaime* is a young woman who identifies as a lesbian. She fled her African country desperate to escape the criminalization and the violence she was experiencing, almost daily, at the hands of known community and police authorities. There was nowhere to receive government help or justice, because she, the … More Safe in America: LGBTQI+ Asylum Seeker Shot in Chicago Gun Violence

Shocking Autopsy Report Confirms Abuse of Transgender Asylum Seeker while in ICE Detention

November 28, 2018

In May ICE said six transgender people had died in detention!  When government leadership at the highest level denigrates and attempts to rob a minority of its rights, especially  where such government seems intent on erasure, the entire milieu will become a setup for abuse and violence at every level. After seven months the suspicious … More Shocking Autopsy Report Confirms Abuse of Transgender Asylum Seeker while in ICE Detention