A Phoenix-based advocacy group says U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement on Monday released five LGBTQ asylum seekers who had been in ICE custody at two Arizona detention centers.
Trans Queer Pueblo, which advocates on behalf of undocumented LGBTQ immigrants, in a press release said the detainees had been isolated “for medical reasons” at La Palma Correctional Facility and Eloy Detention Center.
CoreCivic, a private company that was once known as the Corrections Corporation of America, operates both detention centers that are roughly an hour southeast of Phoenix.
Trans Queer Pueblo said the five detainees that ICE released on humanitarian parole are transgender women, a lesbian woman and a gay man from El Salvador, Guatemala, Cuba and
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