Ghoshal and Schacher, ‘Do LGBTQ+ Asylum Seekers Have a Future in the United States?’, 2020
- Category: Other
- Source: Other
- Subject: Sexual Orientation/Sexuality, Gender Identity, Intersex, Refugee/Asylum, LGBT+
- Place: Americas, Other
- Year: 2020
- File: Do LGBTQ+ Asylum Seekers Have a Future in the United States
- URL: https://www.hrw.org/news/2020/10/13/do-lgbtq-asylum-seekers-have-future-united-states
Neela Ghoshal and Yael Schacher, ‘Do LGBTQ+ Asylum Seekers Have a Future in the United States?’, The Advocate, 13 October 2020
Abstract
When Pricila, a 32-year-old trans woman, fled El Salvador in February 2019, she had good reason to fear for her life. Police had beaten and sexually assaulted her, telling her they would make her a man. Gang members attempted to forcibly recruit her. They extorted her, burned her, beat her, abducted her gay friend, and threatened that she would be next.
Pricila fled to safety in the United States, where her asylum case is underway. But if the Trump administration has its way, people like Pricila, who asked us to use her first name only, may no longer be eligible for asylum in the United States.