As hundreds of coronavirus cases are reported at US immigration facilities, a class action suit is calling for the release of dozens of transgender migrants from what it calls ICE “death traps.”
Supporters and family members of detainees protest in a car caravan to increase the pressure on ICE to release GEO detainees in front of GEO Aurora ICE Processing Center in Aurora, Colo. on April 9, 2020.A coalition of LGBTQ and immigration activists filed a class action lawsuit last week demanding the immediate release of all transgender detainees in U.S.
They constitute a class, the suit claims, in part because “as a group they are more likely to have underlying medical conditions making them vulnerable, such as infection with HIV, diabetes and high blood pressure.”
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