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‘Facebook Memories: 31 May 2024 – Roxana Hernandez’
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Preface.
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Facebook Memories: 31 May 2024
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1. Graduation Season (2023)
2. Robert Reich: Crooked Drumpf Continues To Spew His Big Lies
3. Video: Happy Millye and Sharon Day!
4. Rebecca Stambaugh and Mary Gronert – Beautiful clouds
5. Roxana Hernandez
6. Grand Canyon University
7. Phoenix College
8. University of Arizona
9. University of Utah
10. Utah Technical College (when I attended)
11. Left job at USDA Forest Service
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(Similar to #3, #5, #6, #8, 29 May 2024)
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Sharon Nichols
31 May 2018
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‘Roxana Hernandez, 33, died in the custody of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) at a hospital in Albuquerque, New Mexico, from what appeared to be cardiac arrest. Hernandez was first admitted to a hospital more than a week ago “with symptoms of pneumonia, dehydration, and complications associated with HIV”.
Hernandez surrendered at San Ysidro Port of Entry between San Diego and Tijuana and asked for asylum on May 9, according to Pueblo Sin Fronteras, the immigration-rights group that organized the caravan. The organization said she was held for five days by U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) in a holding cell that is part of a facility many refer to as the “iceboxes” due to its temperature.’
– NBC News
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‘The 33-year-old woman from Honduras, identified by advocates as Roxana Hernandez, was part of the caravan of Central American migrants that traveled to the U.S. border through Mexico.
Advocates called on U.S. immigration authorities Wednesday to stop holding transgender migrants seeking asylum in detention centers after a transgender woman died while in custody at a facility in New Mexico.
“ICE has shown time and again it is incapable of protecting transgender women in detention,” she said. “Transgender people should not be detained by ICE at all.”‘
– USA Today
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President Donald Trump and Attorney General Jeff Sessions repeatedly describe undocumented immigrants as criminals and, in Trump’s case, “animals.” Under Trump’s direction anyone coming to America without proper documentation – even those who are here escaping violence – are now unwelcome in many cases, especially if they are traveling from Mexico or Central America.
Hernandez, who died Friday, spoke with Buzzfeed in April. She “said she had fled Honduras in part because of the discrimination and violence she faced for being transgender.”
Months earlier, “Hernandez said, she was walking home when MS-13 gang members started screaming ‘We don’t want you in this neighborhood, you fucking faggot’ at her before gang-raping her.”‘
– thenewcivilrightsmovement.com
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As much as I would hope that no other member of Our Community fear violence, I suspect that these acts will continue:
– violence committed inside our homes
– violence committed at our places of camaraderie
– violence committed through the judicial system.
I vow to post – expose – these reported acts of anti-LGBT violence to my Facebook page as ‘Public’. Join me. Preaching to the choir gets us nowhere.
These attacks originate through Crooked Drumpf and his plethora of Drumpfians and Deplorables. Posting this as ‘Public’ will expose you Drumpfians and Deplorables:
– you are doing this
– you are committing mass violence, mass murder.
I am calling you out:
– you Drumpfians and Deplorables among my ‘Friend’ list
– you Drumpfians and Deplorables of the public.
You don’t like that I am calling you out? Then do something about it! Prove it! Do something positive to change it.
– same as you exhort Muslims to oppose ‘Islamic Terrorism’
– same as you exhort Christians to oppose ‘Christian Terrorism’ (crickets).
This time, it is you – Drumpfians and Deplorables – your group who are the ‘TERRORISTS’.
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I know little about hashtagging. Perhaps a member of Our Community – someone somewhere – will hashtag ‘#JUST_STOP!!!’ and ‘#Our_Community’ same as the other issues are recognised.
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‘Roxana Hernandez, 33, died in the custody of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) at a hospital in Albuquerque, New Mexico, from what appeared to be cardiac arrest. Hernandez was first admitted to a hospital more than a week ago “with symptoms of pneumonia, dehydration, and complications associated with HIV”.
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‘Kyler Prescott, 14-year-old of San Diego, where he stayed in the youth’s psychiatry unit for a 72-hour suicide hold. The hospital staff didn’t stop calling him a girl.’
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‘Gigi Pierce, 28, became the 11th trans person to be killed in the US this year when she died on May 21.’
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Nicole Hall, age 39, of Dallas.
(Editor: My sincerest apologies. I am trying to be respectful. The news of this murder, what I have read, has been confusing this dear person’s identification. If necessary, I shall correct this when I can verify the facts.)
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Nino Fortson – friend, brother – was shot multiple times early in the morning of May 13.
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Karla Patricia Pavon: North Dallas, Texas. ‘Police were dispatched to the scene at 4:17 p.m. (9 May 18) and confirmed “suspect choked complainant causing her death” and listed the death as a murder.’ (‘Dallas Voice’)
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This courtesy of Melissa Ann Segebarth:
Sasha Wall becomes the ninth transgender person murdered in 2018. Transgender Americans are facing an epidemic of violence at a rate rarely seen. The known victims of 2018 are as follows:
Christa Leigh Steele-Knudslien of Adams, MA. murdered on January 5, 2018;
Giccky Gutierrez of South Los Angeles, CA; murdered on January 10, 2018;
Zakaria Fry and Carrell Ray of Albuquerque, NM. murdered on January 18, 2018;
Celine Walker of Jacksonville, FL. murdered on February 4, 2018;
Tonya Harvey of Buffalo, NY. murdered on February 6, 2018.;
Murdered on February 23, 2018, Phylicia Mitchell of Cleveland, Ohio;
Murdered on March 26th, 2018, Amia Tyrae Berryman of Baton Rouge, LA
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(https://www.advocate.com/crime/2018/4/03/transgender-woman-shot-death-south-carolina)
See also:
(https://www.rawstory.com/2018/03/heres-trump-supporters-conditioned-tolerate-criminal-president/)
(https://www.facebook.com/geoffrey.dorsey.10/posts/10211285740438641)
(https://www.facebook.com/gbtus/posts/1988452694521437)
(https://www.dallasvoice.com/dallas-trans-woman-murdered-10253035.html)
(https://transgriot.blogspot.com/2018/05/number-9-rest-in-power-karla-patricia.html?m=1)
(https://www.facebook.com/groups/303254226850737/permalink/365409397301886/)
(https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=2013321058738600&id=819898388080879)
(https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=521928208202473&id=458190237909604)
(https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2018/05/trump-strips-transgender-prisoners-protections-rape-abuse/)
(https://www.facebook.com/Samantha.bartilson/posts/1867055879982086)
(https://www.facebook.com/karamaehousley/posts/614675478877035)
(https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2018/05/transgender-woman-shot-killed-homeless-person-trying-assist/?utm_source=LGBTQ+Nation+Subscribers&utm_campaign=19a909498f-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_05_24_05_18&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_c4eab596bd-19a909498f-430468733)
(https://www.lambdalegal.org/know-your-rights#transgender)
(https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2018/05/transgender-woman-shot-killed-homeless-person-trying-assist/#.WwbjJiZWl6U.facebook)
(https://www.facebook.com/Samantha.bartilson/posts/1874870165867324)
(https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=1434061180039335&id=1127703627341760)
(https://www.kgw.com/mobile/article/news/education/principal-ousted-in-settlement-of-oregon-lgbt-harassment-case/283-557058506)
(https://www.facebook.com/alexis.skye.311/posts/2059511440933284)
(https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2018/05/30/transgender-woman-immigrant-asylum-seeker-dies-federal-custody/655836002/)
(https://www.azcentral.com/story/news/politics/immigration/2018/05/29/transgender-women-central-american-migrant-caravan-seeking-asylum-now-inside-u-s/639448002/)
(https://www.thenewcivilrightsmovement.com/2018/05/a-gang-raped-honduran-transgender-woman-came-to-the-us-seeking-asylum-and-died-in-ice-custody/)
(https://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-44237691)
(http://www.kake.com/story/38460652/maximum-penalty-sentencing-for-teen-who-killed-transgender-woman)
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These murdered people deserve our respect!
They should not have died in vain.
Thank you for reading all the way to the end of this post. Thank you who ‘Share’ this article.
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Erin P Van Beveren
30 May 2018
R.I.P. Roxana Hernandez. (33)
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(https://www.nbcnews.com/feature/nbc-out/transgender-migrant-honduras-dies-u-s-custody-n878596)
NBC News
OUT POLITICS AND POLICY
Transgender migrant from Honduras dies in U.S. custody
Roxana Hernandez, 33, was part of the caravan of Central American migrants that arrived at the U.S. border earlier this month. She died in detention on Friday.
May 30, 2018, 9:48 AM MST / Updated May 30, 2018, 3:05 PM MST
Annie Rose Ramos
A transgender Honduran woman, who was part of the caravan of Central American migrants that arrived at the U.S. border earlier this month, died in detention on Friday.
Roxana Hernandez, 33, died in the custody of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) at a hospital in Albuquerque, New Mexico, from what appeared to be cardiac arrest. Hernandez was first admitted to a hospital more than a week ago “with symptoms of pneumonia, dehydration, and complications associated with HIV,” according to a statement from ICE.
Image: Roxsana Hernandez
Roxsana Hernandez, right, a transgender woman who was part of the caravan of Central American migrants, died in ICE custody at a hospital in Albuquerque, New Mexico on May 25, 2018.Annie Rose Ramos
Immigration officials identified the woman as Jeffry Hernandez, but LGBTQ rights advocates and caravan organizers said her name was Roxana.
An ICE spokesman confirmed Tuesday that Hernandez was part of the caravan.
Hernandez surrendered at San Ysidro Port of Entry between San Diego and Tijuana and asked for asylum on May 9, according to Pueblo Sin Fronteras, the immigration-rights group that organized the caravan. The organization said she was held for five days by U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) in a holding cell that is part of a facility many refer to as the “iceboxes” due to its temperature.
On May 13, Hernandez was transferred into ICE custody in San Diego. Three days later, she was taken to a transgender unit at the Cibola County Corrections Center, a privately owned prison facility for men in New Mexico that contracts with ICE.
The following day, May 17, Hernandez was admitted to a nearby hospital, according to a statement from ICE, and later transferred to Albuquerque’s Lovelace Medical Center where she remained in an intensive care until she died on May 25.
“Roxana traveled over 2,000 miles through Mexican territory on foot, by train, by bus, because her last aspiration and hope was to save her own life,” read a statement released Tuesday night on behalf of Pueblo Sin Fronteras and fellow immigration-rights groups Al Otro Lado and Diversidad Sin Fronteras.
“Roxy died due to medical negligence by U.S. immigration authorities,” the statement continued.
A 2015 report from the American Immigration Council describes the “icebox” holding cells as “inadequate for any overnight detention,” and official CBP policy states detention in these holding cells should last no longer than 72 hours. Hernandez was allegedly held for five days in the facility, which the report also describes as “routinely lacking in adequate food, water, and medical care.”
In a statement announcing Hernandez’s death, U.S. immigration officials said “all ICE detainees receive medical, dental and mental health intake screening within 12 hours of arriving at each detention facility,” along with “access to daily sick call and 24-hour emergency care.”
Hernandez was one of roughly 60 transgender women participating in the migrant caravan. The trans migrants all said they were forced to flee their home countries because of the discrimination and violence they faced for being transgender.
Trans Women a Target in One of World’s Most Dangerous Countries
Alexandra Mejia, a friend of Hernandez also travelling in the caravan, told NBC New she was targeted by gangs in El Salvador because of her transgender identity. When Mejia refused to engage, she said local gang members raped her and killed her father.
Hernandez had previously been deported three times from the U.S. and was set to be deported without seeing an immigration judge, a process known as “expedited removal,” according to ICE.
She had entered the U.S. illegally twice between 2005 and 2009 and was granted voluntary return to Mexico because she claimed Mexican nationality, according to ICE. While in the U.S., Hernandez was convicted of theft in 2006 and lewd, immoral, indecent conduct and prostitution in 2009. ICE said Hernandez entered the U.S. illegally a third time and was deported on March 2014.
Hernandez is the sixth detainee to die in ICE custody since October 2017, according to ICE.
“Paired with the abuse we know transgender people regularly suffer in ICE detention, the death of Ms. Hernández sends the message that transgender people are disposable and do not deserve dignity, safety, or even life,” Isa Noyola, deputy director of the Transgender Law Center, said in a statement.
The Transgender Law Center is demanding ICE adopt and implement a policy around detaining transgender people. The organization has created a Twitter campaign, #JusticeForRoxana, in the hopes of bringing attention to other trans migrants currently being held in detention.
“IT WAS FREEZING … YOU HAD TO SLEEP ON THE FLOOR”
NBC News spoke with one of the caravan members, 18-year-old David from Guatemala, who is presently being held at Otay Mesa Detention Facility in San Diego. David declined to share his last name for fear it would negatively impact his chance of asylum.
David described the conditions of the detention facility as inadequate and frightening, noting, “When someone has a pain somewhere, the guards usually tell them to come back tomorrow or wait for medical attention that never comes.”
David said he was taken to Otay Mesa Detention Facility on May 4 along with 12 other members of the caravan, including a transgender woman. Last week, one of the men from the caravan was sent to the “hole” after trying to interpret for another member of the caravan who needed medical attention, David recalled. He said the guards yelled at the translator for being “defiant.”
Prior to his current detention facility, David was held in the so-called “iceboxes.” He said he spent two days in a room with 45 other people that was intended to only hold 25.
“They didn’t let you shower, it was freezing, they didn’t let you brush your teeth, and there were no beds, so you had to sleep on the floor,” he explained.
David said he fled Guatemala with his partner after people in his hometown posted on Facebook that the two were gay. Following the post, David said he and his partner were beaten, including by David’s parents, and had their lives threatened. The two joined up with the caravan on the Guatemalan border with Mexico and stayed together until they were separated at the U.S. border. David’s partner is currently being detained in Chicago.
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Sharon Nichols
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‘Roxana Hernandez, 33, died in the custody of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) at a hospital in Albuquerque, New Mexico, from what appeared to be cardiac arrest. Hernandez was first admitted to a hospital more than a week ago “with symptoms of pneumonia, dehydration, and complications associated with HIV”.
Hernandez surrendered at San Ysidro Port of Entry between San Diego and Tijuana and asked for asylum on May 9, according to Pueblo Sin Fronteras, the immigration-rights group that organized the caravan. The organization said she was held for five days by U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) in a holding cell that is part of a facility many refer to as the “iceboxes” due to its temperature.’
– NBC News
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‘The 33-year-old woman from Honduras, identified by advocates as Roxana Hernandez, was part of the caravan of Central American migrants that traveled to the U.S. border through Mexico.
Advocates called on U.S. immigration authorities Wednesday to stop holding transgender migrants seeking asylum in detention centers after a transgender woman died while in custody at a facility in New Mexico.
“ICE has shown time and again it is incapable of protecting transgender women in detention,” she said. “Transgender people should not be detained by ICE at all.”‘
– USA Today
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President Donald Trump and Attorney General Jeff Sessions repeatedly describe undocumented immigrants as criminals and, in Trump’s case, “animals.” Under Trump’s direction anyone coming to America without proper documentation – even those who are here escaping violence – are now unwelcome in many cases, especially if they are traveling from Mexico or Central America.
Hernandez, who died Friday, spoke with Buzzfeed in April. She “said she had fled Honduras in part because of the discrimination and violence she faced for being transgender.”
Months earlier, “Hernandez said, she was walking home when MS-13 gang members started screaming ‘We don’t want you in this neighborhood, you fucking faggot’ at her before gang-raping her.”‘
– thenewcivilrightsmovement.com
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As much as I would hope that no other member of Our Community fear violence, I suspect that these acts will continue:
– violence committed inside our homes
– violence committed at our places of camaraderie
– violence committed through the judicial system.
I vow to post – expose – these reported acts of anti-LGBT violence to my Facebook page as ‘Public’. Join me. Preaching to the choir gets us nowhere.
These attacks originate through Crooked Drumpf and his plethora of Drumpfians and Deplorables. Posting this as ‘Public’ will expose you Drumpfians and Deplorables:
– you are doing this
– you are committing mass violence, mass murder.
I am calling you out:
– you Drumpfians and Deplorables among my ‘Friend’ list
– you Drumpfians and Deplorables of the public.
You don’t like that I am calling you out? Then do something about it! Prove it! Do something positive to change it.
– same as you exhort Muslims to oppose ‘Islamic Terrorism’
– same as you exhort Christians to oppose ‘Christian Terrorism’ (crickets).
This time, it is you – Drumpfians and Deplorables – your group who are the ‘TERRORISTS’.
*
I know little about hashtagging. Perhaps a member of Our Community – someone somewhere – will hashtag ‘#JUST_STOP!!!’ and ‘#Our_Community’ same as the other issues are recognised.
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‘Roxana Hernandez, 33, died in the custody of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) at a hospital in Albuquerque, New Mexico, from what appeared to be cardiac arrest. Hernandez was first admitted to a hospital more than a week ago “with symptoms of pneumonia, dehydration, and complications associated with HIV”.
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‘Kyler Prescott, 14-year-old of San Diego, where he stayed in the youth’s psychiatry unit for a 72-hour suicide hold. The hospital staff didn’t stop calling him a girl.’
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‘Gigi Pierce, 28, became the 11th trans person to be killed in the US this year when she died on May 21.’
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Nicole Hall, age 39, of Dallas.
(Editor: My sincerest apologies. I am trying to be respectful. The news of this murder, what I have read, has been confusing this dear person’s identification. If necessary, I shall correct this when I can verify the facts.)
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Nino Fortson – friend, brother – was shot multiple times early in the morning of May 13.
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Karla Patricia Pavon: North Dallas, Texas. ‘Police were dispatched to the scene at 4:17 p.m. (9 May 18) and confirmed “suspect choked complainant causing her death” and listed the death as a murder.’ (‘Dallas Voice’)
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This courtesy of Melissa Ann Segebarth:
Sasha Wall becomes the ninth transgender person murdered in 2018. Transgender Americans are facing an epidemic of violence at a rate rarely seen. The known victims of 2018 are as follows:
Christa Leigh Steele-Knudslien of Adams, MA. murdered on January 5, 2018;
Giccky Gutierrez of South Los Angeles, CA; murdered on January 10, 2018;
Zakaria Fry and Carrell Ray of Albuquerque, NM. murdered on January 18, 2018;
Celine Walker of Jacksonville, FL. murdered on February 4, 2018;
Tonya Harvey of Buffalo, NY. murdered on February 6, 2018.;
Murdered on February 23, 2018, Phylicia Mitchell of Cleveland, Ohio;
Murdered on March 26th, 2018, Amia Tyrae Berryman of Baton Rouge, LA
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(https://www.advocate.com/crime/2018/4/03/transgender-woman-shot-death-south-carolina)
See also:
(https://www.rawstory.com/2018/03/heres-trump-supporters-conditioned-tolerate-criminal-president/)
(https://www.facebook.com/geoffrey.dorsey.10/posts/10211285740438641)
(https://www.facebook.com/gbtus/posts/1988452694521437)
(https://www.dallasvoice.com/dallas-trans-woman-murdered-10253035.html)
(https://transgriot.blogspot.com/2018/05/number-9-rest-in-power-karla-patricia.html?m=1)
(https://www.facebook.com/groups/303254226850737/permalink/365409397301886/)
(https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=2013321058738600&id=819898388080879)
(https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=521928208202473&id=458190237909604)
(https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2018/05/trump-strips-transgender-prisoners-protections-rape-abuse/)
(https://www.facebook.com/Samantha.bartilson/posts/1867055879982086)
(https://www.facebook.com/karamaehousley/posts/614675478877035)
(https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2018/05/transgender-woman-shot-killed-homeless-person-trying-assist/?utm_source=LGBTQ+Nation+Subscribers&utm_campaign=19a909498f-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_05_24_05_18&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_c4eab596bd-19a909498f-430468733)
(https://www.lambdalegal.org/know-your-rights#transgender)
(https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2018/05/transgender-woman-shot-killed-homeless-person-trying-assist/#.WwbjJiZWl6U.facebook)
(https://www.facebook.com/Samantha.bartilson/posts/1874870165867324)
(https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=1434061180039335&id=1127703627341760)
(https://www.kgw.com/mobile/article/news/education/principal-ousted-in-settlement-of-oregon-lgbt-harassment-case/283-557058506)
(https://www.facebook.com/alexis.skye.311/posts/2059511440933284)
(https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2018/05/30/transgender-woman-immigrant-asylum-seeker-dies-federal-custody/655836002/)
(https://www.azcentral.com/story/news/politics/immigration/2018/05/29/transgender-women-central-american-migrant-caravan-seeking-asylum-now-inside-u-s/639448002/)
(https://www.thenewcivilrightsmovement.com/2018/05/a-gang-raped-honduran-transgender-woman-came-to-the-us-seeking-asylum-and-died-in-ice-custody/)
(https://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-44237691)
(http://www.kake.com/story/38460652/maximum-penalty-sentencing-for-teen-who-killed-transgender-woman)
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Thank you to the resources who contribute to this page.
*
This was not meant to bore you.
These murdered people deserve our respect!
They should not have died in vain.
Thank you for reading all the way to the end of this post. Thank you who ‘Share’ this article.
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(https://www.nbcnews.com/feature/nbc-out/transgender-migrant-honduras-dies-u-s-custody-n878596)
OUT POLITICS AND POLICY
Transgender migrant from Honduras dies in U.S. custody
May 30, 2018, 9:48 AM MST / Updated May 30, 2018, 3:05 PM MST
By Annie Rose Ramos
A transgender Honduran woman, who was part of the caravan of Central American migrants that arrived at the U.S. border earlier this month, died in detention on Friday.
Roxana Hernandez, 33, died in the custody of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) at a hospital in Albuquerque, New Mexico, from what appeared to be cardiac arrest. Hernandez was first admitted to a hospital more than a week ago “with symptoms of pneumonia, dehydration, and complications associated with HIV,” according to a statement from ICE.
Roxsana Hernandez, right, a transgender woman who was part of the caravan of Central American migrants, died in ICE custody at a hospital in Albuquerque, New Mexico on May 25, 2018.Annie Rose Ramos
Immigration officials identified the woman as Jeffry Hernandez, but LGBTQ rights advocates and caravan organizers said her name was Roxana.
An ICE spokesman confirmed Tuesday that Hernandez was part of the caravan.
Hernandez surrendered at San Ysidro Port of Entry between San Diego and Tijuana and asked for asylum on May 9, according to Pueblo Sin Fronteras, the immigration-rights group that organized the caravan. The organization said she was held for five days by U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) in a holding cell that is part of a facility many refer to as the “iceboxes” due to its temperature.
On May 13, Hernandez was transferred into ICE custody in San Diego. Three days later, she was taken to a transgender unit at the Cibola County Corrections Center, a privately owned prison facility for men in New Mexico that contracts with ICE.
NEWS
Over 50 caravan migrants seeking asylum allowed into U.S., organizers say
The following day, May 17, Hernandez was admitted to a nearby hospital, according to a statement from ICE, and later transferred to Albuquerque’s Lovelace Medical Center where she remained in an intensive care until she died on May 25.
“Roxana traveled over 2,000 miles through Mexican territory on foot, by train, by bus, because her last aspiration and hope was to save her own life,” read a statement released Tuesday night on behalf of Pueblo Sin Fronteras and fellow immigration-rights groups Al Otro Lado and Diversidad Sin Fronteras.
“Roxy died due to medical negligence by U.S. immigration authorities,” the statement continued.
A 2015 report from the American Immigration Council describes the “icebox” holding cells as “inadequate for any overnight detention,” and official CBP policy states detention in these holding cells should last no longer than 72 hours. Hernandez was allegedly held for five days in the facility, which the report also describes as “routinely lacking in adequate food, water, and medical care.”
In a statement announcing Hernandez’s death, U.S. immigration officials said “all ICE detainees receive medical, dental and mental health intake screening within 12 hours of arriving at each detention facility,” along with “access to daily sick call and 24-hour emergency care.”
Hernandez was one of roughly 60 transgender women participating in the migrant caravan. The trans migrants all said they were forced to flee their home countries because of the discrimination and violence they faced for being transgender.
Trans Women a Target in One of World’s Most Dangerous Countries
Alexandra Mejia, a friend of Hernandez also travelling in the caravan, told NBC New she was targeted by gangs in El Salvador because of her transgender identity. When Mejia refused to engage, she said local gang members raped her and killed her father.
Hernandez had previously been deported three times from the U.S. and was set to be deported without seeing an immigration judge, a process known as “expedited removal,” according to ICE.
She had entered the U.S. illegally twice between 2005 and 2009 and was granted voluntary return to Mexico because she claimed Mexican nationality, according to ICE. While in the U.S., Hernandez was convicted of theft in 2006 and lewd, immoral, indecent conduct and prostitution in 2009. ICE said Hernandez entered the U.S. illegally a third time and was deported on March 2014.
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Hernandez is the sixth detainee to die in ICE custody since October 2017, according to ICE.
“Paired with the abuse we know transgender people regularly suffer in ICE detention, the death of Ms. Hernández sends the message that transgender people are disposable and do not deserve dignity, safety, or even life,” Isa Noyola, deputy director of the Transgender Law Center, said in a statement.
The Transgender Law Center is demanding ICE adopt and implement a policy around detaining transgender people. The organization has created a Twitter campaign, #JusticeForRoxana, in the hopes of bringing attention to other trans migrants currently being held in detention.
“IT WAS FREEZING … YOU HAD TO SLEEP ON THE FLOOR”
NBC News spoke with one of the caravan members, 18-year-old David from Guatemala, who is presently being held at Otay Mesa Detention Facility in San Diego. David declined to share his last name for fear it would negatively impact his chance of asylum.
David described the conditions of the detention facility as inadequate and frightening, noting, “When someone has a pain somewhere, the guards usually tell them to come back tomorrow or wait for medical attention that never comes.”
David said he was taken to Otay Mesa Detention Facility on May 4 along with 12 other members of the caravan, including a transgender woman. Last week, one of the men from the caravan was sent to the “hole” after trying to interpret for another member of the caravan who needed medical attention, David recalled. He said the guards yelled at the translator for being “defiant.”
Prior to his current detention facility, David was held in the so-called “iceboxes.” He said he spent two days in a room with 45 other people that was intended to only hold 25.
“They didn’t let you shower, it was freezing, they didn’t let you brush your teeth, and there were no beds, so you had to sleep on the floor,” he explained.
David said he fled Guatemala with his partner after people in his hometown posted on Facebook that the two were gay. Following the post, David said he and his partner were beaten, including by David’s parents, and had their lives threatened. The two joined up with the caravan on the Guatemalan border with Mexico and stayed together until they were separated at the U.S. border. David’s partner is currently being detained in Chicago.
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‘Roxana Hernandez, 33, died in the custody of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) at a hospital in Albuquerque, New Mexico, from what appeared to be cardiac arrest. Hernandez was first admitted to a hospital more than a week ago “with symptoms of pneumonia, dehydration, and complications associated with HIV”.
Hernandez surrendered at San Ysidro Port of Entry between San Diego and Tijuana and asked for asylum on May 9, according to Pueblo Sin Fronteras, the immigration-rights group that organized the caravan. The organization said she was held for five days by U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) in a holding cell that is part of a facility many refer to as the “iceboxes” due to its temperature.’
– NBC News
‘The 33-year-old woman from Honduras, identified by advocates as Roxana Hernandez, was part of the caravan of Central American migrants that traveled to the U.S. border through Mexico.
Advocates called on U.S. immigration authorities Wednesday to stop holding transgender migrants seeking asylum in detention centers after a transgender woman died while in custody at a facility in New Mexico.
“ICE has shown time and again it is incapable of protecting transgender women in detention,” she said. “Transgender people should not be detained by ICE at all.”‘
– USA Today
President Donald Trump and Attorney General Jeff Sessions repeatedly describe undocumented immigrants as criminals and, in Trump’s case, “animals.” Under Trump’s direction anyone coming to America without proper documentation – even those who are here escaping violence – are now unwelcome in many cases, especially if they are traveling from Mexico or Central America.
Hernandez, who died Friday, spoke with Buzzfeed in April. She “said she had fled Honduras in part because of the discrimination and violence she faced for being transgender.”
Months earlier, “Hernandez said, she was walking home when MS-13 gang members started screaming ‘We don’t want you in this neighborhood, you fucking faggot’ at her before gang-raping her.”‘
– thenewcivilrightsmovement.com
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As much as I would hope that no other member of Our Community fear violence, I suspect that these acts will continue:
– violence committed inside our homes
– violence committed at our places of camaraderie
– violence committed through the judicial system.
I vow to post – expose – these reported acts of anti-LGBT violence to my Facebook page as ‘Public’. Join me. Preaching to the choir gets us nowhere.
These attacks originate through Crooked Drumpf and his plethora of Drumpfians and Deplorables. Posting this as ‘Public’ will expose you Drumpfians and Deplorables:
– you are doing this
– you are committing mass violence, mass murder.
I am calling you out:
– you Drumpfians and Deplorables among my ‘Friend’ list
– you Drumpfians and Deplorables of the public.
You don’t like that I am calling you out? Then do something about it! Prove it! Do something positive to change it.
– same as you exhort Muslims to oppose ‘Islamic Terrorism’
– same as you exhort Christians to oppose ‘Christian Terrorism’ (crickets).
This time, it is you – Drumpfians and Deplorables – your group who are the ‘TERRORISTS’.
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I know little about hashtagging. Perhaps a member of Our Community – someone somewhere – will hashtag ‘#JUST_STOP!!!’ and ‘#Our_Community’ same as the other issues are recognised.
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‘Roxana Hernandez, 33, died in the custody of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) at a hospital in Albuquerque, New Mexico, from what appeared to be cardiac arrest. Hernandez was first admitted to a hospital more than a week ago “with symptoms of pneumonia, dehydration, and complications associated with HIV”.
‘Kyler Prescott, 14-year-old of San Diego, where he stayed in the youth’s psychiatry unit for a 72-hour suicide hold. The hospital staff didn’t stop calling him a girl.’
‘Gigi Pierce, 28, became the 11th trans person to be killed in the US this year when she died on May 21.’
Nicole Hall, age 39, of Dallas.
(Editor: My sincerest apologies. I am trying to be respectful. The news of this murder, what I have read, has been confusing this dear person’s identification. If necessary, I shall correct this when I can verify the facts.)
Nino Fortson – friend, brother – was shot multiple times early in the morning of May 13.
Karla Patricia Pavon: North Dallas, Texas. ‘Police were dispatched to the scene at 4:17 p.m. (9 May 18) and confirmed “suspect choked complainant causing her death” and listed the death as a murder.’ (‘Dallas Voice’)
This courtesy of Melissa Ann Segebarth:
Sasha Wall becomes the ninth transgender person murdered in 2018. Transgender Americans are facing an epidemic of violence at a rate rarely seen. The known victims of 2018 are as follows:
Christa Leigh Steele-Knudslien of Adams, MA. murdered on January 5, 2018;
Giccky Gutierrez of South Los Angeles, CA; murdered on January 10, 2018;
Zakaria Fry and Carrell Ray of Albuquerque, NM. murdered on January 18, 2018;
Celine Walker of Jacksonville, FL. murdered on February 4, 2018;
Tonya Harvey of Buffalo, NY. murdered on February 6, 2018.;
Murdered on February 23, 2018, Phylicia Mitchell of Cleveland, Ohio;
Murdered on March 26th, 2018, Amia Tyrae Berryman of Baton Rouge, LA
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(https://www.advocate.com/crime/2018/4/03/transgender-woman-shot-death-south-carolina)
See also:
(https://www.rawstory.com/2018/03/heres-trump-supporters-conditioned-tolerate-criminal-president/)
(https://www.facebook.com/geoffrey.dorsey.10/posts/10211285740438641)
(https://www.facebook.com/gbtus/posts/1988452694521437)
(https://www.dallasvoice.com/dallas-trans-woman-murdered-10253035.html)
(https://transgriot.blogspot.com/2018/05/number-9-rest-in-power-karla-patricia.html?m=1)
(https://www.facebook.com/groups/303254226850737/permalink/365409397301886/)
(https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=2013321058738600&id=819898388080879)
(https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=521928208202473&id=458190237909604)
(https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2018/05/trump-strips-transgender-prisoners-protections-rape-abuse/)
(https://www.facebook.com/Samantha.bartilson/posts/1867055879982086)
(https://www.facebook.com/karamaehousley/posts/614675478877035)
(https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2018/05/transgender-woman-shot-killed-homeless-person-trying-assist/?utm_source=LGBTQ+Nation+Subscribers&utm_campaign=19a909498f-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_05_24_05_18&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_c4eab596bd-19a909498f-430468733)
(https://www.lambdalegal.org/know-your-rights#transgender)
(https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2018/05/transgender-woman-shot-killed-homeless-person-trying-assist/#.WwbjJiZWl6U.facebook)
(https://www.facebook.com/Samantha.bartilson/posts/1874870165867324)
(https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=1434061180039335&id=1127703627341760)
(https://www.kgw.com/mobile/article/news/education/principal-ousted-in-settlement-of-oregon-lgbt-harassment-case/283-557058506)
(https://www.facebook.com/alexis.skye.311/posts/2059511440933284)
(https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2018/05/30/transgender-woman-immigrant-asylum-seeker-dies-federal-custody/655836002/)
(https://www.azcentral.com/story/news/politics/immigration/2018/05/29/transgender-women-central-american-migrant-caravan-seeking-asylum-now-inside-u-s/639448002/)
(https://www.thenewcivilrightsmovement.com/2018/05/a-gang-raped-honduran-transgender-woman-came-to-the-us-seeking-asylum-and-died-in-ice-custody/)
(https://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-44237691)
(http://www.kake.com/story/38460652/maximum-penalty-sentencing-for-teen-who-killed-transgender-woman)
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They should not have died in vain.
Thank you for reading all the way to the end of this post. Thank you who ‘Share’ this article.
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NBCNEWS.COM
Transgender migrant from Honduras dies in U.S. custody
Roxana Hernandez, 33, was part of the caravan of Central American migrants that arrived at the U.S. border earlier this month. She died in detention on Friday.
Transgender migrant from Honduras dies in U.S. custody
Roxana Hernandez, 33, was part of the caravan of Central American migrants that arrived at the U.S. border earlier this month. She died in detention on Friday.
May 30, 2018, 9:48 AM MST / Updated May 30, 2018, 3:05 PM MST
By Annie Rose Ramos
A transgender Honduran woman, who was part of the caravan of Central American migrants that arrived at the U.S. border earlier this month, died in detention on Friday.
Roxana Hernandez, 33, died in the custody of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) at a hospital in Albuquerque, New Mexico, from what appeared to be cardiac arrest. Hernandez was first admitted to a hospital more than a week ago “with symptoms of pneumonia, dehydration, and complications associated with HIV,” according to a statement from ICE.
Image: Roxsana Hernandez
Roxsana Hernandez, right, a transgender woman who was part of the caravan of Central American migrants, died in ICE custody at a hospital in Albuquerque, New Mexico on May 25, 2018.Annie Rose Ramos
Immigration officials identified the woman as Jeffry Hernandez, but LGBTQ rights advocates and caravan organizers said her name was Roxana.
An ICE spokesman confirmed Tuesday that Hernandez was part of the caravan.
Hernandez surrendered at San Ysidro Port of Entry between San Diego and Tijuana and asked for asylum on May 9, according to Pueblo Sin Fronteras, the immigration-rights group that organized the caravan. The organization said she was held for five days by U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) in a holding cell that is part of a facility many refer to as the “iceboxes” due to its temperature.
On May 13, Hernandez was transferred into ICE custody in San Diego. Three days later, she was taken to a transgender unit at the Cibola County Corrections Center, a privately owned prison facility for men in New Mexico that contracts with ICE.
The following day, May 17, Hernandez was admitted to a nearby hospital, according to a statement from ICE, and later transferred to Albuquerque’s Lovelace Medical Center where she remained in an intensive care until she died on May 25.
“Roxana traveled over 2,000 miles through Mexican territory on foot, by train, by bus, because her last aspiration and hope was to save her own life,” read a statement released Tuesday night on behalf of Pueblo Sin Fronteras and fellow immigration-rights groups Al Otro Lado and Diversidad Sin Fronteras.
“Roxy died due to medical negligence by U.S. immigration authorities,” the statement continued.
A 2015 report from the American Immigration Council describes the “icebox” holding cells as “inadequate for any overnight detention,” and official CBP policy states detention in these holding cells should last no longer than 72 hours. Hernandez was allegedly held for five days in the facility, which the report also describes as “routinely lacking in adequate food, water, and medical care.”
In a statement announcing Hernandez’s death, U.S. immigration officials said “all ICE detainees receive medical, dental and mental health intake screening within 12 hours of arriving at each detention facility,” along with “access to daily sick call and 24-hour emergency care.”
Hernandez was one of roughly 60 transgender women participating in the migrant caravan. The trans migrants all said they were forced to flee their home countries because of the discrimination and violence they faced for being transgender.
Trans Women a Target in One of World’s Most Dangerous Countries
FEB. 3, 2017 03:59
Alexandra Mejia, a friend of Hernandez also travelling in the caravan, told NBC New she was targeted by gangs in El Salvador because of her transgender identity. When Mejia refused to engage, she said local gang members raped her and killed her father.
Hernandez had previously been deported three times from the U.S. and was set to be deported without seeing an immigration judge, a process known as “expedited removal,” according to ICE.
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She had entered the U.S. illegally twice between 2005 and 2009 and was granted voluntary return to Mexico because she claimed Mexican nationality, according to ICE. While in the U.S., Hernandez was convicted of theft in 2006 and lewd, immoral, indecent conduct and prostitution in 2009. ICE said Hernandez entered the U.S. illegally a third time and was deported on March 2014.
Hernandez is the sixth detainee to die in ICE custody since October 2017, according to ICE.
“Paired with the abuse we know transgender people regularly suffer in ICE detention, the death of Ms. Hernández sends the message that transgender people are disposable and do not deserve dignity, safety, or even life,” Isa Noyola, deputy director of the Transgender Law Center, said in a statement.
The Transgender Law Center is demanding ICE adopt and implement a policy around detaining transgender people. The organization has created a Twitter campaign, #JusticeForRoxana, in the hopes of bringing attention to other trans migrants currently being held in detention.
“IT WAS FREEZING … YOU HAD TO SLEEP ON THE FLOOR”
NBC News spoke with one of the caravan members, 18-year-old David from Guatemala, who is presently being held at Otay Mesa Detention Facility in San Diego. David declined to share his last name for fear it would negatively impact his chance of asylum.
David described the conditions of the detention facility as inadequate and frightening, noting, “When someone has a pain somewhere, the guards usually tell them to come back tomorrow or wait for medical attention that never comes.”
David said he was taken to Otay Mesa Detention Facility on May 4 along with 12 other members of the caravan, including a transgender woman. Last week, one of the men from the caravan was sent to the “hole” after trying to interpret for another member of the caravan who needed medical attention, David recalled. He said the guards yelled at the translator for being “defiant.”
Prior to his current detention facility, David was held in the so-called “iceboxes.” He said he spent two days in a room with 45 other people that was intended to only hold 25.
“They didn’t let you shower, it was freezing, they didn’t let you brush your teeth, and there were no beds, so you had to sleep on the floor,” he explained.
David said he fled Guatemala with his partner after people in his hometown posted on Facebook that the two were gay. Following the post, David said he and his partner were beaten, including by David’s parents, and had their lives threatened. The two joined up with the caravan on the Guatemalan border with Mexico and stayed together until they were separated at the U.S. border. David’s partner is currently being detained in Chicago.
© 2018 NBC UNIVERSAL
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A Facebook ‘Memories’ from last year, from two years ago, from three years ago.
From a lifetime.
STOP!!!
STOP Murdering Our Community!!!
Reflecting upon the day – prior years, this year, future years.
I began thinking about a message to post to my social media and to my web-site during this election campaign season. I may not change any minds, or change any votes, but at least I can make my message known now, known frequently.
Get used to it. I’ll likely use it at some place in whatever are my new posts.
I welcome you and any others of like mind to Share this, or something similar, to their social media and web-site, to make our point known.
Feel free to copy this, if you agree, if you want to spread our message to the American Electorate.
Here following is what I have written. Here will be my on-going message this election campaign year:
I address my message to you: Republi-cons, Christian Con-servatives, Drumpfians, Deplorables, hangers-on, etc. This includes Trans and LGBT Republi-cons, Christian Con-servatives, Drumpfians, Deplorables, hangers-on – themselves who are the Cowardly Cohorts.
You show who you are. I have every reason to believe you as you say you are, accept what you accept as you are, that you do as you do for what you are.
You are the same as any NAZI of the 20th Century. Hitler’s earliest targets for his Final Solution were the Trans Community and the LGBT Community of Germany.
These days in America, you vote Republi-con, you support Crooked Drumpf, you surrender to your Big Lie.
I take this quite personally. Your ideology today calls for – demands – the extermination of my Trans Community and my LGBTQIA Community – same as Hitler and NAZIs. You are THE existential threat to my true Friends, to my own well-being and my life.
I hold you accountable for your ideology, responsible for your politics of destruction, answerable for your acts of Hate.
Appeasement to your ideology is never a solution. You and I might be here in social media as ‘Friends’, or at my web-site, or we are amicable in real life; but you can NEVER truly be amongst my real Friends, whether here in the cyber world or in real life. I can NEVER trust you.
The decision is all yours – whether or not you choose to persist your ideology of Hate, Bigotry, Prejudice.
It’s all yours. It’s in your hands.
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‘Roxana Hernandez, 33, died in the custody of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) at a hospital in Albuquerque, New Mexico, from what appeared to be cardiac arrest. Hernandez was first admitted to a hospital more than a week ago “with symptoms of pneumonia, dehydration, and complications associated with HIV”.
Hernandez surrendered at San Ysidro Port of Entry between San Diego and Tijuana and asked for asylum on May 9, according to Pueblo Sin Fronteras, the immigration-rights group that organized the caravan. The organization said she was held for five days by U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) in a holding cell that is
part of a facility many refer to as the “iceboxes” due to its temperature.’
– NBC News
‘The 33-year-old woman from Honduras, identified by advocates as Roxana Hernandez, was part of the caravan of Central American migrants that traveled to the U.S. border through Mexico.
Advocates called on U.S. immigration authorities Wednesday to stop holding transgender migrants seeking asylum in detention centers after a transgender woman died while in custody at a facility in New Mexico.
“ICE has shown time and again it is incapable of protecting transgender women in detention,” she said. “Transgender people should not be detained by ICE at all.”‘
– USA Today
President Donald Trump and Attorney General Jeff Sessions repeatedly describe undocumented immigrants as criminals and, in Trump’s case, “animals.” Under Trump’s direction anyone coming to America without proper documentation – even those who are here escaping violence – are now unwelcome in many cases, especially
if they are traveling from Mexico or Central America.
Hernandez, who died Friday, spoke with Buzzfeed in April. She “said she had fled Honduras in part because of the discrimination and violence she faced for being transgender.”
Months earlier, “Hernandez said, she was walking home when MS-13 gang members started screaming ‘We don’t want you in this neighborhood, you fucking faggot’ at her before gang-raping her.”‘
– thenewcivilrightsmovement.com
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As much as I would hope that no other member of Our Community fear violence, I suspect that these acts will continue:
– violence committed inside our homes
– violence committed at our places of camaraderie
– violence committed through the judicial system.
I vow to post – expose – these reported acts of anti-LGBT violence to my Facebook page as ‘Public’. Join me. Preaching to the choir gets us nowhere.
These attacks originate through Crooked Drumpf and his plethora of Drumpfians and Deplorables. Posting this as ‘Public’ will expose you Drumpfians and Deplorables:
– you are doing this
– you are committing mass violence, mass murder.
I am calling you out:
– you Drumpfians and Deplorables among my ‘Friend’ list
– you Drumpfians and Deplorables of the public.
You don’t like that I am calling you out? Then do something about it! Prove it! Do something positive to change it.
– same as you exhort Muslims to oppose ‘Islamic Terrorism’
– same as you exhort Christians to oppose ‘Christian Terrorism’ (crickets).
This time, it is you – Drumpfians and Deplorables – your group who are the ‘TERRORISTS’.
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I know little about hashtagging. Perhaps a member of Our Community – someone somewhere – will hashtag ‘#JUST_STOP!!!’ and ‘#Our_Community’ same as the other issues are recognised.
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‘Roxana Hernandez, 33, died in the custody of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) at a hospital in Albuquerque, New Mexico, from what appeared to be cardiac arrest. Hernandez was first admitted to a hospital more than a week ago “with symptoms of pneumonia, dehydration, and complications associated with
HIV”.
‘Kyler Prescott, 14-year-old of San Diego, where he stayed in the youth’s psychiatry unit for a 72-hour suicide hold. The hospital staff didn’t stop calling him a girl.’
‘Gigi Pierce, 28, became the 11th trans person to be killed in the US this year when she died on May 21.’
Nicole Hall, age 39, of Dallas.
(Editor: My sincerest apologies. I am trying to be respectful. The news of this murder, what I have read, has been confusing this dear person’s identification. If necessary, I shall correct this when I can verify the facts.)
Nino Fortson – friend, brother – was shot multiple times early in the morning of May 13.
Karla Patricia Pavon: North Dallas, Texas. ‘Police were dispatched to the scene at 4:17 p.m. (9 May 18) and confirmed “suspect choked complainant causing her death” and listed the death as a murder.’ (‘Dallas Voice’)
This courtesy of Melissa Ann Segebarth:
Sasha Wall becomes the ninth transgender person murdered in 2018. Transgender Americans are facing an epidemic of violence at a rate rarely seen. The known victims of 2018 are as follows:
Christa Leigh Steele-Knudslien of Adams, MA. murdered on January 5, 2018;
Giccky Gutierrez of South Los Angeles, CA; murdered on January 10, 2018;
Zakaria Fry and Carrell Ray of Albuquerque, NM. murdered on January 18, 2018;
Celine Walker of Jacksonville, FL. murdered on February 4, 2018;
Tonya Harvey of Buffalo, NY. murdered on February 6, 2018.;
Murdered on February 23, 2018, Phylicia Mitchell of Cleveland, Ohio;
Murdered on March 26th, 2018, Amia Tyrae Berryman of Baton Rouge, LA
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(https://www.advocate.com/crime/2018/4/03/transgender-woman-shot-death-south-carolina)
See also:
(https://www.rawstory.com/2018/03/heres-trump-supporters-conditioned-tolerate-criminal-president/)
(https://www.facebook.com/geoffrey.dorsey.10/posts/10211285740438641)
(https://www.facebook.com/gbtus/posts/1988452694521437)
(https://www.dallasvoice.com/dallas-trans-woman-murdered-10253035.html)
(https://transgriot.blogspot.com/2018/05/number-9-rest-in-power-karla-patricia.html?m=1)
(https://www.facebook.com/groups/303254226850737/permalink/365409397301886/)
(https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=2013321058738600&id=819898388080879)
(https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=521928208202473&id=458190237909604)
(https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2018/05/trump-strips-transgender-prisoners-protections-rape-abuse/)
(https://www.facebook.com/Samantha.bartilson/posts/1867055879982086)
(https://www.facebook.com/karamaehousley/posts/614675478877035)
(https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2018/05/transgender-woman-shot-killed-homeless-person-trying-assist/?utm_source=LGBTQ+Nation+Subscribers&utm_campaign=19a909498f-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_05_24_05_18&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_c4eab596bd-19a909498f-430468733)
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Transgender migrant from Honduras dies in U.S. custody
Roxana Hernandez, 33, was part of the caravan of Central American migrants that arrived at the U.S. border earlier this month. She died in detention on Friday.
Transgender migrant from Honduras dies in U.S. custody
Roxana Hernandez, 33, was part of the caravan of Central American migrants that arrived at the U.S. border earlier this month. She died in detention on Friday.
May 30, 2018, 9:48 AM MST / Updated May 30, 2018, 3:05 PM MST
By Annie Rose Ramos
A transgender Honduran woman, who was part of the caravan of Central American migrants that arrived at the U.S. border earlier this month, died in detention on Friday.
Roxana Hernandez, 33, died in the custody of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) at a hospital in Albuquerque, New Mexico, from what appeared to be cardiac arrest. Hernandez was first admitted to a hospital more than a week ago “with symptoms of pneumonia, dehydration, and complications associated with
HIV,” according to a statement from ICE.
Image: Roxsana Hernandez
Roxsana Hernandez, right, a transgender woman who was part of the caravan of Central American migrants, died in ICE custody at a hospital in Albuquerque, New Mexico on May 25, 2018.Annie Rose Ramos
Immigration officials identified the woman as Jeffry Hernandez, but LGBTQ rights advocates and caravan organizers said her name was Roxana.
An ICE spokesman confirmed Tuesday that Hernandez was part of the caravan.
Hernandez surrendered at San Ysidro Port of Entry between San Diego and Tijuana and asked for asylum on May 9, according to Pueblo Sin Fronteras, the immigration-rights group that organized the caravan. The organization said she was held for five days by U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) in a holding cell that is
part of a facility many refer to as the “iceboxes” due to its temperature.
On May 13, Hernandez was transferred into ICE custody in San Diego. Three days later, she was taken to a transgender unit at the Cibola County Corrections Center, a privately owned prison facility for men in New Mexico that contracts with ICE.
The following day, May 17, Hernandez was admitted to a nearby hospital, according to a statement from ICE, and later transferred to Albuquerque’s Lovelace Medical Center where she remained in an intensive care until she died on May 25.
“Roxana traveled over 2,000 miles through Mexican territory on foot, by train, by bus, because her last aspiration and hope was to save her own life,” read a statement released Tuesday night on behalf of Pueblo Sin Fronteras and fellow immigration-rights groups Al Otro Lado and Diversidad Sin Fronteras.
“Roxy died due to medical negligence by U.S. immigration authorities,” the statement continued.
A 2015 report from the American Immigration Council describes the “icebox” holding cells as “inadequate for any overnight detention,” and official CBP policy states detention in these holding cells should last no longer than 72 hours. Hernandez was allegedly held for five days in the facility, which the report also describes as
“routinely lacking in adequate food, water, and medical care.”
In a statement announcing Hernandez’s death, U.S. immigration officials said “all ICE detainees receive medical, dental and mental health intake screening within 12 hours of arriving at each detention facility,” along with “access to daily sick call and 24-hour emergency care.”
Hernandez was one of roughly 60 transgender women participating in the migrant caravan. The trans migrants all said they were forced to flee their home countries because of the discrimination and violence they faced for being transgender.
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Alexandra Mejia, a friend of Hernandez also travelling in the caravan, told NBC New she was targeted by gangs in El Salvador because of her transgender identity. When Mejia refused to engage, she said local gang members raped her and killed her father.
Hernandez had previously been deported three times from the U.S. and was set to be deported without seeing an immigration judge, a process known as “expedited removal,” according to ICE.
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She had entered the U.S. illegally twice between 2005 and 2009 and was granted voluntary return to Mexico because she claimed Mexican nationality, according to ICE. While in the U.S., Hernandez was convicted of theft in 2006 and lewd, immoral, indecent conduct and prostitution in 2009. ICE said Hernandez entered the U.S. illegally a third time and was deported on March 2014.
Hernandez is the sixth detainee to die in ICE custody since October 2017, according to ICE.
“Paired with the abuse we know transgender people regularly suffer in ICE detention, the death of Ms. Hernández sends the message that transgender people are disposable and do not deserve dignity, safety, or even life,” Isa Noyola, deputy director of the Transgender Law Center, said in a statement.
The Transgender Law Center is demanding ICE adopt and implement a policy around detaining transgender people. The organization has created a Twitter campaign, #JusticeForRoxana, in the hopes of bringing attention to other trans migrants currently being held in detention.
“IT WAS FREEZING … YOU HAD TO SLEEP ON THE FLOOR”
NBC News spoke with one of the caravan members, 18-year-old David from Guatemala, who is presently being held at Otay Mesa Detention Facility in San Diego. David declined to share his last name for fear it would negatively impact his chance of asylum.
David described the conditions of the detention facility as inadequate and frightening, noting, “When someone has a pain somewhere, the guards usually tell them to come back tomorrow or wait for medical attention that never comes.”
David said he was taken to Otay Mesa Detention Facility on May 4 along with 12 other members of the caravan, including a transgender woman. Last week, one of the men from the caravan was sent to the “hole” after trying to interpret for another member of the caravan who needed medical attention, David recalled. He said the guards yelled at the translator for being “defiant.”
Prior to his current detention facility, David was held in the so-called “iceboxes.” He said he spent two days in a room with 45 other people that was intended to only hold 25.
“They didn’t let you shower, it was freezing, they didn’t let you brush your teeth, and there were no beds, so you had to sleep on the floor,” he explained.
David said he fled Guatemala with his partner after people in his hometown posted on Facebook that the two were gay. Following the post, David said he and his partner were beaten, including by David’s parents, and had their lives threatened. The two joined up with the caravan on the Guatemalan border with Mexico and stayed together until they were separated at the U.S. border. David’s partner is currently being detained in Chicago.
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‘Pure Evil’: Report On Trump Administration Draining Fund For FDNY’s 9/11 Responders Draws Outrage
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TOPLINE A New York Daily News scoop published Thursday revealed that the Trump administration has siphoned around $4 million from the New York City Fire Department’s fund for its September 11 first responders, drawing outrage on the 19th anniversary of the attacks, but the U.S. Treasury says the money was diverted because of “delinquent debt” owed by New York City to the federal government.
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The funds are part of the FDNY World Trade Center Health Program, which was established by the James Zadroga 9/11 Health and Compensation Act of 2010, a bill passed by Congress that provides healthcare to first responders who have suffered a range of illnesses from exposure to dust and smoke at Ground Zero.
“TRUMP DOESN’T ONLY HATE VETERANS, HE HATES FIRST RESPONDER HEROES,” tweeted actress Debra Messing in reaction to the Daily News report.
Fred Guttenberg, father of Parkland school shooting victim Jamie Guttenberg, said he was “F—KING P—-ED” about the report, because his brother died of cancer from 9/11.
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“This doesn’t surprise me at all,” Army veteran and advocate Paul Rieckoff wrote on Twitter. “Trump did NOTHING to push for the extension of #Zadroga last year.”
“We are also working with Congressman King and others to examine any potential authorities to provide relief in this case to support our nation’s 9/11 heroes,” the Treasury spokesperson. told Forbes, but could not provide any examples of how they would do it, and did not have a timeline.
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