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Judi Lynn

(160,219 posts)
Wed May 30, 2018, 12:28 PM May 2018

Roxsana Hernandez, A Transgender Woman Seeking Asylum In The U.S., Has Died In ICE Custody

Source: Bustle


By MONICA HUNTER-HART
4 hours ago

Six migrants have died in the custody of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) this year. Now, weeks after a high-profile caravan of asylum seekers from Central America began entering the United States, one of the group's members, a 33-year-old transgender woman, Roxsana Hernandez, died in ICE custody, BuzzFeed News reported.

Hernandez died in an Albuquerque hospital on Friday from what seemed to be cardiac arrest, according to ICE, though an autopsy analysis is pending. She was treated in a different New Mexico hospital earlier this month for symptoms of dehydration, pneumonia, and complications associated with HIV.

She told BuzzFeed News in April that she'd fled her home country of Honduras after being sexually assaulted by MS-13 gang members. "Four of them raped me and as a result I got HIV," she said. "Trans people in my neighborhood are killed and chopped into pieces, then dumped inside potato bags."

The caravan of which Hernandez was a part was organized by Pueblo Sin Fronteras (or "People Without Borders&quot , which has sent five caravans of asylum seekers to the U.S. border. This one included over 1,000 migrants, a great many of whom were also from Honduras. Around a third of them began entering the United States early this month.

Read more: https://www.bustle.com/p/roxsana-hernandez-a-transgender-woman-seeking-asylum-in-the-us-has-died-in-ice-custody-9236196

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Roxsana Hernandez, A Transgender Woman Seeking Asylum In The U.S., Has Died In ICE Custody (Original Post) Judi Lynn May 2018 OP
Part of the problem is that Cheeto knows his Archie Bunker voters read this and yell: sandensea May 2018 #1
... Faux pas May 2018 #2
crossed into USA for asylum 5/9 & 'processed for deportation!" dead by 5/29 Sunlei May 2018 #3
murdered by ICE nazis samir.g May 2018 #4

sandensea

(21,530 posts)
1. Part of the problem is that Cheeto knows his Archie Bunker voters read this and yell:
Wed May 30, 2018, 12:40 PM
May 2018

"Yeah! Should happen more often!"

"Woman - where's my beer!"

Sunlei

(22,651 posts)
3. crossed into USA for asylum 5/9 & 'processed for deportation!" dead by 5/29
Wed May 30, 2018, 01:13 PM
May 2018

*crossed into the United States on May 9 through a border between San Diego and Tijuana. She was immediately processed for expedited removal, which means that she wasn't allowed to see an immigration judge before being deported.*

another person murdered by Republican-nazi policies.

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