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" , 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
sandensea
(21,530 posts)"Yeah! Should happen more often!"
"Woman - where's my beer!"
Faux pas
(14,586 posts)Sunlei
(22,651 posts)*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.