U.S. court: Transgender illegal immigrant cannot be deported to Mexico

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Yahoo News/Reuters 09/03/2015
By Dan Whitcomb
4 hours ago

"LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - A transgender illegal immigrant who suffered years of sexual and physical abuse in Mexico cannot be deported despite a felony conviction because she is protected under international anti-torture conventions, a U.S. appeals court ruled on Thursday.

In granting Edin Carey Avendano-Hernandez the right to remain in the United States, a three-member 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals panel found that a federal immigration board that ordered her deported had mixed sexual orientation with gender identity."

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