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Arely Westley, this year's recipient of the Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights Award, tells The Advocate about this "crucial moment" in time for queer and immigrant communities.
They allege discrimination, harassment, denial of health care, and other mistreatment at a detention center in Colorado.
A federal judge ruled that the government violated her rights.
Trans boxer Nolan Hanson tells The Advocate about his fight to get his mentor, Talap Mamyrkanov, out of ICE detention.
Since 2015, detention facilities had to take into account the gender identity of trans migrants. Not any more.
The death of Roxana Hernandez has transgender activists calling for the release of all trans immigrants in detention.
Thanks to help from the National Queer Asian Pacific Islander Alliance, Chin will no longer have to suffer the cruelty of solitary confinement.
Nicoll Hernandez-Polanco's experiences of sexual assault and solitary confinement are a prime example of how the immigration system mistreats trans women, say advocates.
Departure comes amid growing family seperations while the death of a transgender refugee in ICE custody remains unexplained.
Is a government turf war over immigration detention putting transgender lives at risk?
A former detainee says Immigration and Customs Enforcement must stop housing transgender women with men in private prisons. In a word, it's about rape.
Activists demand a prisoner be freed from the solitary confinement he's been held in for 15 months.
NBC found thousands of LGBTQ and disabled migrants kept in isolation over a five-year period.
Rivers spent nearly three months in detention under harrowing conditions, which she spoke about in a heartbreaking interview this week.
Opinion: ICE expands into an authoritarian arm of the state, akin to Germany's Gestapo, going unchecked and unaccountable. and shattering lives , writes John Casey.
The lawsuit seeks to hold companies that run private detention centers and transport migrants responsible for Roxsana Hernandez's death.
At least two HIV-positive transgender women have died in ICE custody in the last 15 months.
A federal judge in Manhattan determined ICE violated Rickardo Anthony Kelly's right to due process.
Lawyers for the family of Roxsana Hernandez have filed a complaint holding federal immigration agencies and contractors responsible for her death while in custody.
When Jews collectively said "NEVER AGAIN," they meant it, writes Rebecca Kling. That applies to American abuses at the border.
Alina Habba, the former personal attorney for Donald Trump, brought federal criminal charges against New Jersey Rep. LaMonica McIver.
