Posts Tagged ‘immigrants seeking asylum’
Why Haven’t We Heard More About the Asylum Granted to Alexandra Reyes
1:24 pm By Maegan La Mala · GLBT|Immigration|mexico · 7 Comments
19 Nov 2010I have been meaning to write about Alexandra Reyes for about a week now and in that week I am surprised (well kind of) that more attention hasn’t been given to her.
Alexandra Reyes was granted asylum earlier this month that will allow her to stay in the United States. Reyes , like so many others, came into the United States without documents. She came escaping violence from her family in Mexico and from Mexican society because she is a transgender woman.
“It would be physically dangerous for her to walk down the street,” said her attorney, Bryon Large. “She could be sexually assaulted.”
Canada Threatening to Deport Nicaraguan Because They Don’t Believe He’s Gay
8:39 am By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · GLBT|Immigration|Justice|Nicaragua · 1 Comment
16 May 2007
There is a really interesting story up on the Advocate site that takes the issue of immigration from a different perspective. It’s the story of a young gay man named Alvaro Orozco who ran away from Nicaragua at the tender age of 12 to escape the abuse he dealt with at home from his homophobic father.
Without his own remarkable energy, Orozco might not be in Canada—or anywhere. Raised by an alcoholic father who beat him daily for being gay, Orozco ran away from his home and family in Managua, Nicaragua’s capital, in 1998, just before he turned 13. He hitchhiked up the Pan-American Highway through four countries and swam the Rio Grande river into Texas. Once in the United States, Orozco was held in detention centers in Texas and then bounced from Dallas to Miami to Buffalo until he reached Toronto in January 2005. There he filed for asylum on the grounds that he would be persecuted for being gay if he had to return to Nicaragua.
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