Today @NIJC @TransLatina_C & 80+ human rights orgs are demanding that @ICEgov release all transgender immigrants from its jails. Our letter follows one sent last week by @RepMikeQuigley and 40+ reps. This demand is urgent. This THREAD explains why. 1/
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@NIJC @TransLatina_C @ICEgov @RepMikeQuigley First: Release is required by congressional directive. The report accompanying the 2020 spending bill tells ICE it can only detain trans immigrants if it complies w/ its own 2015 directive. ICE is not in compliance (willfully indifferent to the safety of those it detains). 2/
@NIJC @TransLatina_C @ICEgov @RepMikeQuigley Second: Release is urgent because every day that ICE continues to jail transgender immigrants is a day when their lives and safety and wellbeing are compromised. 3/
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@NIJC @TransLatina_C @ICEgov @RepMikeQuigley ICE’s own data shows that LGBTQ immigrants are 97 times more likely to be sexually assaulted than other detainees, per our colleague @Shugruberg. 4/ americanprogress.org/press/release/…
@NIJC @TransLatina_C @ICEgov @RepMikeQuigley @Shugruberg .@NIJC client Kelly is a trans woman who survived violence and trafficking only to endure two years in ICE jails while she fights her asylum case. She was thrown in solitary for months because of her gender identity. She’s still detained. #FreeKelly 5/
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@NIJC @TransLatina_C @ICEgov @RepMikeQuigley @Shugruberg Third: Jailing trans immigrants (and the use of detention for immigration processing generally) is unnecessary and yields systemic rights abuses. There are proven alternatives that allow immigrants to live w/ their loved ones while their cases proceed. 6/
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@NIJC @TransLatina_C @ICEgov @RepMikeQuigley @Shugruberg Trans immigrants are suffering in immigration detention every day. They and the community fighting with them is fierce and we will not stop. @ICEgov: do the right thing. Release trans immigrants to their loved ones now. #FreeKelly #EndDetention #NewWayForward 7/
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