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Transgender Suicide Hotline Founder Detained At Border
The founder of a transgender helpline has been detained in Arizona at a random immigration checkpoint. When the van was stopped last Wednesday night, TransLifeline founder Nina Chaubal was detained.
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Don't go near Arizona
I've been hearing things like this about Arizona for a while. Don't go there.
Gwen
Random
schmandom....
Because Chaubal is undocumented, she could be deported. However, Martela told NCRM that she has a reasonable case for asylum given that India does not recognize same-sex marriage and criminalizes sex between opposite-sex partners. Abuse and discrimination against transgender people in India is also common in spite of recent legal advances.
Love, Andrea Lena
I don't understand the phrase
criminalizes sex between opposite-sex partners
Isn't that men and women? Am I missing something obvious?
{{Hugs}}
I paste
they decide
Love, Andrea Lena
Fraudian Slip
Here's what they mean:
THOSE people are the "opposite" of US! We are RIGHT and they are WRONG. We need to rid our neighborhoods of THOSE people through random checking.
Happy to interpret for you since you obviously don't speak fluent hatred.
Jill
Angela Rasch (Jill M I)
Thanks
However the 'opposite' thing was in regards to India not Arizona. Arizona's hate I sadly understand. Although you are probably right in India too. Maybe a Hejra and a woman (or man)..
Typo
I presumed that was a typo and ignored it. They never respond to typo reports and I have yet to see them correct anything.
"Life is not measured by the breaths you take, but by the moments that take your breath away.”
George Carlin
By Arizona "locals?"
Would "locals" be running a "random immigration checkpoint"? Sounds more like "the feds" working Arizona border area.
Sara
Between the wrinkles, the orthopedic shoes, and nine decades of gravity, it is really hard to be alluring. My icon, you ask? It is the last picture I allowed to escape the camera ... back before most BC authors were born.
ICE
The article says she was being held by ICE - Immigration and Customs Enforcement. That's a federal agency. It also mentions the "Arizona Border Patrol". That is less clear but I think it is the Arizona sector of the U.S. Border Patrol.
That being said, there are some law enforcement agencies in Arizona that have exploited a loophole, think Sheriff Arpaio. He is just the most visible.
"Life is not measured by the breaths you take, but by the moments that take your breath away.”
George Carlin