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Trapped in detention, transgender immigrants face new traumas

Started by stephaniec, August 29, 2015, 02:10:23 PM

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stephaniec

August 29, 2015, 02:10:23 PM
Trapped in detention, transgender immigrants face new traumas

http://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/trapped-detention-transgender-immigrants-face-new-traumas

MSNBC News/By Adam Frankel and  Chritina Fialho    08/29/2015

""I have never been in jail before," Natalia said, her voice trembling as tears fell slowly down the side of her face onto an orange jumpsuit.

She had been raped by two men near the border in Tijuana only weeks before entering the United States to seek asylum, she explained. But after fleeing to the U.S. after repeated sexual assaults in Mexico, she was detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) at the Santa Ana City Jail in Southern California, in a segregated "housing pod" for gay men and transgender women."
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August 29, 2015, 03:27:18 PM
Makes my heart hurt.
Have you read my short story The Eve of Triumph?
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