Why Are They Being Denied Entry?

When one has been invited to come to the U.S. to speak on human rights violation by the country where you live, you would think that they probably have had run in with the police in their country.

Three Central American trans advocates denied U.S. visas
Washington Blade
By Michael K. Lavers
June 16, 2015

LGBT rights advocates have criticized the U.S. over the denial of visas to three transgender women who were invited to attend the General Assembly of the Organization of American States in Washington this week.
Aldo Fernández Turitich of the Latin American and Caribbean Network of Trans People, known by the Spanish acronym REDLACTRANS, told the Washington Blade during a June 12 interview at the Northwest D.C. offices of the Heartland Alliance for Human Needs and Human Rights that three of his colleagues were unable to receive visas from American officials in Guatemala, El Salvador and Panamá. He identified them as Stacy Vásquez Velásquez, Ambar Alvarado Alfaro and Mixair Nolasco

Stacy Vásquez Velásquez said that during her interview at the U.S. embassy,

She said the woman with whom she spoke repeatedly asked her about unresolved “problems with the police” that she said she had in her native El Salvador before moving to Guatemala a decade ago where she is now a legal resident. The advocate maintains Salvadoran police arrested her “arbitrarily” in a market while she and a friend were walking through it.

“She was detained and then released,” Marcelo Ernesto Ferreyra of Heartland Alliance told the Blade. “She now lives in Guatemala, and there have been no problems in that respect.” 

And Ambar Alvarado Alfaro said this about her interview,

Ferreyra said Alvarado’s neighbor called the police after speaking with her about some “private issues.” He said officers “stopped her as they usually do with trans people and then released her, without bringing any criminal charges against her.”
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She said they asked her a series of questions about her interactions with the police. Alvarado said a female embassy staffer with whom she spoke used male pronouns to refer to her because the documents she brought with her had “the name that her parents gave her”

While Mixair Nolasco reported similar experiences when she went to the embassy in Panama, the official there didn’t want to see any of her documentation.

So the U.S. officials have effectively shut out anyone from talking about human rights violations in Central American countries.