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Transgender Asylum-Seeker Caught in Immigration Detention Hell

Started by Shana A, November 13, 2009, 08:16:11 AM

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November 13, 2009, 08:16:11 AM
Transgender Asylum-Seeker Caught in Immigration Detention Hell

Posted by Staff, RestoreFairness.org at 3:18 PM on November 12, 2009.

http://www.alternet.org/blogs/peek/143923/transgender_asylum-seeker_caught_in_immigration_detention_hell/

Esmeralda never realized that her experience in detention would match the trauma of discrimination she had faced back home.

Courage comes in many different forms. For Esmeralda a transgender asylum seeker from Mexico who faced horrific circumstances in immigration detention, it came in the form of seeking justice. Kept in a segregated cell with other transgender detainees, Esmeralda never realized that her experience in detention would match the trauma of discrimination she had faced back home. But her story is also one of hope for change.

Esmeralda: A Transgender Detainee Speaks Out from Breakthrough on Vimeo.
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