The Briefing Room

General Category => Immigration/Border => Topic started by: Chosen Daughter on November 16, 2018, 02:16:19 am

Title: LGBT asylum seekers are first to reach the U.S. border from the caravan. Now they wait.
Post by: Chosen Daughter on November 16, 2018, 02:16:19 am

LGBT asylum seekers are first to reach the U.S. border from the caravan. Now they wait.
 



November 13 
TIJUANA, Mexico — The front line of what President Trump calls a migrant “invasion” has arrived at the U.S. border — dozens of lesbian, gay and transgender asylum seekers from Central America.

The group has taken up shelter in a rented home in Tijuana, where they played Ariana Grande’s music Monday night as they sorted through donated clothes, drank strawberry-banana juice and discussed how the asylum process might play out.

“I cannot believe we actually made it here to the border,” said Andy Albaringa, 23, a trans woman from El Salvador. “The trip was so tiring.”

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/the_americas/the-first-caravan-migrants-arrive-at-the-us-border-and-begin-the-waiting-game/2018/11/13/ceef3844-e6b7-11e8-8449-1ff263609a31_story.html (https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/the_americas/the-first-caravan-migrants-arrive-at-the-us-border-and-begin-the-waiting-game/2018/11/13/ceef3844-e6b7-11e8-8449-1ff263609a31_story.html)