Getting Iced!

Last week I wrote about a trans girl who was detained by the Border Patrol for 32 hours, ICE did it again. This time ICE is ignoring a judge.

Recently freed Honduran transgender woman detained again by Ice
Nicole García Aguilar fled Honduras after being subjected to sexual assault and attempted murder linked to her gender identity
The Guardian
By Nina Lakhani
26 Apr 2019

A Honduran transgender asylum seeker who was released last week after a year incarcerated in immigration centres has been re-detained by US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice).

The move was condemned by her legal team as punitive and damaging to the young woman’s physical and mental health.

Nicole Garcia Aguilar, 24, fled southern Honduras after being subjected to death threats, sexual assault and attempted murder linked to her gender identity. She sought help from the police in Honduras, but was told by one officer that the violence against her was “because of the way [she is]” and would not stop until she was dead.
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Garcia was granted asylum by an immigration judge in October 2018. Despite the ruling, Ice refused to release her and appealed the asylum decision claiming there were inconsistencies in Garcia’s testimonies.

Her health has health has deteriorated while she was kept in solitary confinement in a male prison.

Garcia was released last week after lawyers from NIJC and the American Civil Liberties Union filed a habeas corpus, arguing that denying her parole for such a prolonged period without the right to appeal amounted to a constitutional violation of due process.

But ICE didn’t give her the paperwork for her release and as a result…
She is currently being held at the El Paso service processing center in Texas, a facility plagued by accusations of abuse and human rights violations. It was there that nine Sikh men were force fed after a prolonged hunger strike to protest against their treatment by facility staff and immigration judges.

ICE and Border Patrol are behaving like a bunch of thugs; they are committing human rights violations with impunity.