Transgender and gay migrants held at an immigration facility in New Mexico have been subjected to “rampant sexual harassment, discrimination and abuse,” advocates and lawyers claim in a letter.
and the warden of Otero County Processing Center in Chaparral, the American Civil Liberties Union of New Mexico and other groups said that some migrants were placed in solitary confinement — or threatened with solitary — after complaining about conditions.
Immigration and Customs Enforcement did not immediately respond to a request for comment Monday, nor did Management and Training Corp., the private company that operates Otero. Members of a group of 50 or so LGBTQ migrants traveling with the migrant caravan hoping to reach the U.S. border, ride the subway during a rest day, to the historic center in Mexico City on Nov. 8, 2018. For the dozens of transgender women and gay men, the journey has meant putting up with insulting catcalls and even some physical abuse.
Guards allegedly interrupted showers and offered to help transgender women bathe, according to the letter. Medical staff allegedly refused to provide hormones to three women for gender dysphoria.by the public policy research and advocacy group Center for American Progress found that even though few migrants who were held at federal detention centers are LGBTQ, they are 97 times more likely to be sexually assaulted than other detainees.
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