Rep. Nadler Sends Letter to ICE Demanding End of Transgender Migrant Detention
January 15, 2020
January 15, 2020
WASHINGTON, Jan. 15 -- Rep. Jerrold Nadler, D-New York, issued the following news release on Jan. 14:
House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerrold Nadler joined a group of forty Members of Congress in calling for Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to release all transgender individuals currently in detention. LGBTQ immigrants are 97 times more likely to be sexually victimized in detention than straight and cis-gender immigrants and at least two transgender women, Roxsana Hernan . . .
House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerrold Nadler joined a group of forty Members of Congress in calling for Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to release all transgender individuals currently in detention. LGBTQ immigrants are 97 times more likely to be sexually victimized in detention than straight and cis-gender immigrants and at least two transgender women, Roxsana Hernan . . .