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Bad Wisconsin cop’s tattoo claim helped deport gay asylum-seeker to Salvadoran prison hellscape: report

Sacked after a drunk driving incident, the former officer now helps deport people from the U.S.

Trump Wants Mexico To Block Immigrants from El Salvador

Trump makes more misguided claims regarding immigrants entering the U.S.

LGBTQ+ non-U.S. citizens at risk under Trump’s immigration crackdown: study

About 3 percent of immigrants living in the country identify as LGBTQ+.

Salvadoran Trans Man Says He Was Brutalized by Police After Pride Parade

Aldo Alexander Pena leaked pictures to social media of his disfigured face after police, he says, broke his eye socket while arresting him on false charges.

Anti-LGBTQ+ Washington Lawmaker Dies After Contracting COVID-19

Doug Ericksen opposed marriage equality and transgender rights -- and he also opposed COVID vaccine mandates.

Deported gay makeup artist cried for mother in prison, photojournalist says

Andry Hernandez Romero was deported to El Salvador despite having no criminal record.

Transgender Woman Murdered in El Salvador's Epidemic of Violence

Activists say police and other officials are reluctant to investigate any anti-LGBTQ crimes.

El Salvador Police Sentenced in Country's 1st Trans Murder Conviction

The historic ruling sets a new precedent for LGBTQ+ hate crimes in the region. 

 

Founder of D.C. LGBTQ+ nonprofit Casa Ruby arrested in Maryland after fleeing to El Salvador

The Department of Justice said that Ruby Corado was arrested after unexpectedly returning to the United States.

Justice Sotomayor: Supreme Court ruling in immigration case threatens marriage equality

In holding that citizens don't have a fundamental interest in bringing noncitizen spouses to the U.S., the court is on the path to undermining marriage rights in general, the justice said in an impassioned dissent.

A Trans Asylum Seeker Died in ICE Custody on First Day of Pride

Her death comes more than a year after Roxsana Hernandez's passing under controversial circumstances.

Queer Venezuelan deported and 'disappeared' over mischaracterized tattoos, lawyer says

ICE agents claimed the tattoos signified membership in the Venezuelan criminal group Tren de Aragua, but his lawyers say they have deported an innocent artist.

Trans Woman Killed After Being Deported From U.S. to El Salvador

Before she was murdered, U.S. officials denied her asylum.

Pride Flourishes In Central American Cities

Over the weekend, people in El Salvador, Guatemala, and Costa Rica revelled in their Marchas de la Diversidad.

International Outrage Over Trans Activist's Murder

Salvadoran police are being urged to consider whether Francela Mendez Rodriguez was killed because of her LGBT rights work or her trans identity.

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Ruby Corado, founder of LGBTQ+ nonprofit Casa Ruby, pleads guilty to wire fraud

The Washington, D.C. nonprofit shuttered its doors after she vanished with thousands of dollars.