San Francisco: Ice Detains Queer Immigrant, Sparks Outrage

“San Francisco is the vibrant city we understand of today because of the payments of immigrants– especially queer immigrants,” San Francisco Satisfaction said in a declaration supporting drag artist Hilary Rivers.

ICE Arrests Immigrants in Bay Area Courts

As component of Head of state Trump’s increased crackdown on migration, ICE agents have begun restraining individuals when they appear in migration courts in the Bay Location, according to the San Francisco Chronicle.

Beginning in Might, federal immigration authorities have actually started to have government lawyers in immigration hearings file a motion for a judge to disregard the situation, after that detain the immigrant and restrain them once they shed asylum claim defenses.

Hilary Rivers’ Asylum Case

Rivers (whose lawful name is being held back to shield his safety and security) is a gay immigrant from Central America who has a pending asylum application based upon the “distressing and extreme” mistreatment he experienced in his home country, according to the San Francisco Chronicle.

San Francisco Pride’s Response

“San Francisco Satisfaction emphatically rejects the continued assaults on immigrant neighborhoods by the government management, SCOTUS judgments, and the splintering of our communities by ICE on the basis of violations to due process and our city’s sanctuary plan,” the declaration reads. “San Francisco is the vibrant city we understand of today because of the contributions of immigrants– particularly queer immigrants.”

Rivers was lawfully confessed to the united state with CBP One, a Biden-era program that allowed around 900,000 migrants to cross the U.S.-Mexico boundary lawfully. Trump has actually given that terminated the program and revoked parole condition for all immigrants who got in the nation via the program.

“There’s not a much more book instance of what asylum was developed for than a situation like his,” Milli Atkinson, legal supervisor at the San Francisco Immigrant Legal Defense Collaborative, said to the San Francisco Chronicle. “To have them take him far from his area throughout Pride Week, when he’s getting away persecution for his queer identification, and when he had just taken part in that pageant … is just terrible to me, is just a disgrace, and people need to actually be annoyed and ashamed by what our federal government is doing.”