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LGBTQ Asylum Seekers First Migrant Caravan Group to Appear at U.S. Border
On Sunday, November 11th, a community of approximately 80 Core American migrants, the majority of whom identify as LGBTQ, arrived in the coastal city of Tijuana, Mexico, just south of the U.S.-Mexico border. They are part of the massive caravan of more than 3,600 people traveling north on foot in hopes of being granted asylum in the U.S., but this group broke off after allegedly facing discriminatory treatment from other travelers and local residents.
“Whenever we arrived at a stopping point the LGBT community was the last to be taken into account in every way. So our purpose was to change that and say, ‘This age we are going to be first,’” Carlos Mejia, who is from Honduras, said at a flatten conference on Sunday.
One member of the team, a transgender woman, told reporters that there was “plenty of verbal abuse,” but noted that it was nothing compared to the threats and discrimination she faced in her home country of Honduras.
Originally part of a much larger group of migrant travelers, the LGBTQ members gravitated towards one another while en route and began organizi
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Former National Political Director
Yesterday, following Trump’s wishes, House Republicans approved $1.6 billion in border wall funding. It’s off to the Senate now, where Democrats have said they will block it.
The ACLU opposes construction of the wall because it furthers Trump’s draconian and discriminatory anti-immigrant agenda and puts the rights of people who live proximate the border in jeopardy. But a revelation made this move even more callous. Now we know that Trump's short-lived victory was the work of rank discrimination against patriotic transgender service members.
This week, President Trump announced — in all but three tweets — that transgender people will be banned from military service.
Despite Trump’s false claim that his pronouncement was the finding of consultation with “my Generals” and concerns over spending, it has grow obvious that sound policy had nothing to do with his reckless decision.
A new report from Politico reveals that Trump decided to ban transgender service members as a way to secure funding for his proposed border wall between the U.S. and Mexico.
Several House members planned to vote against the “minibus” spen
Experts warned that a piece of border wall started during President Donald Trump’s first term violates treaties between the United States and Mexico and could eventually cause massive flooding on both sides of the border. But the federal government moved ahead anyway — and it’s almost finished.
The wall, which runs straight through the contaminated Tijuana River, is a series of 30-foot-high steel gates that block migrants from crossing into the United States through the river channel. Border officials are supposed to raise the gates before it rains, but if the gates malfunction, Tijuana and San Ysidro on the U.S. side could suffer catastrophic flooding.
Through documents obtained via a Independence of Information Act lawsuit, our MacKenzie Elmer reports that Mexican officials grant U.S. officials know years ago that the river wall broke international agreements that required Mexico’s endorsement to build barriers in the Tijuana River.
The International Boundary and Water Commission or IBWC – a federal agency that owns and manages border lands on behalf of the United States – was the lone agency with any real power to stop the project. But there was mounting pressure from the Trump and
Abstract
There is increasing recognition of the significance of the political, social, economic, and strategic effects of artificial intelligence (AI). This raises important ethical questions regarding the programming, employ, and regulation of AI. This paper argues that both the programming and application of AI are inherently (cis)gendered, sexualised and racialised. AI is, after all, programmed by humans and the issue of who trains AI, teaches it to learn, and the ethics of doing so are therefore critical to avoiding the reproduction of (cis)gendered and racist stereotypes. The paper’s empirical focus is the EU-funded project iBorderCtrl, designed to manage security risks and enhance the speed of border crossings for third country nationals via the implementation of several AI-based technologies, including facial recognition and deception detection. By drawing together literature from 1) risk and security 2) AI and ethics/migration/asylum and 3) race, gender, (in)security, and AI, this paper explores the implications of lie detection for both regular border crossings and refugee protection with a conceptual focus on the intersections of gender, sexuality, and race. We argue heLeading with Cruelty: Eight Impacts of Trump’s First Day Executive Orders
On January 20, 2025, President Trump issued a series of executive orders upon returning to the White Property for his second term. Ten of these executive orders resume his administration’s blistering weaponization of the White Home authority to decree federal agencies to wage an assault on immigrant communities and asylum seekers. These orders protest the administration’s brazen disregard for regulation and fact, and their inflammatory language signals an overtly adversarial approach toward all immigrants and refugees, including families and children. Below are eight ways immigrants, cities, and communities will be impacted by the executive orders issued on Trump’s first day back in office:
1. People searching refuge are under renewed attack.
During his first term, President Trump unleashed a torrent of inhumane attacks on asylum seekers. These attacks systematically violated decades of U.S. and international law and placed asylum seekers — including petite children — directly in harm’s way, resulting in a series of court battles and bicameral opposition from Congress.
Trump now has ordered:
- A mass,