Posted on November 18, 2020 by Brian D. Lerner, Immigration Lawyer & Deportation Attorney
Members of the LGBTQ+ community, and particularly trans individuals, in ICE detention have long complained of persistent sexual harassment, with reports showing that LGBTQ+ people are 97 times more likely to be victimized within detention than other detainees. Now, the pandemic has magnified those vulnerabilities, with experts and advocates warning that the lockdown of facilities is making it harder for victims to escape abuse since they are often locked up with their aggressors.
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Posted on June 29, 2020 by Brian D. Lerner, Immigration Lawyer & Deportation Attorney
On June 15, the Supreme Court ruled that Title VII forbids workplace discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation and gender identity. The ruling was based on the meaning of “discrimination on the basis of sex” in existing federal law. Justice Gorsuch wrote both opinions, and was joined by Justices Roberts, Ginsburg, Sotomayor, Breyer, and Kagan in the majority. Justices Alito, Thomas, and Kavanaugh dissented. In the realm of immigration, this ruling could affect and protect both immigrant and nonimmigrant workers from discrimination.
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Posted on May 15, 2019 by Brian D. Lerner, Immigration Lawyer & Deportation Attorney
CBS reports that 10 transgender women who were part of a roughly 80-member group of LGBTQ+ migrants from Central America recently won their asylum cases and were released from a detention center in Texas.
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Posted on January 26, 2012 by Brian D. Lerner, Immigration Lawyer & Deportation Attorney
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