Posted on 05/29/2015 11:48:10 AM PDT by wagglebee
WASHINGTON, D.C, May 28, 2015 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Homosexual activists are demanding that any illegal immigrant who claims to be gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, or “queer” (LGBTQ) be set free and allowed to roam the United States, essentially making LGBT illegals a class above the law.
Dozens of members of United We Dream gathered outside the headquarters of the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) on Wednesday to protest what they consider to be mistreatment that homosexual illegal aliens experience while in U.S. custody.
They urged ICE, which is part of the Department of Homeland Security, to stop detaining all illegal aliens who say they are part of a sexual minority.
“They should not be holding people they know are vulnerable, they know will be sexually assaulted,” said National Center for Transgender Equality Executive Director Mara Keisling outside ICE headquarters. “They are doing that intentionally and we must call them out. We must make our people safe.”
Homosexual protesters say it is "torture" to hold gay and transgender inmates in immigration detention centers like all other illegal aliens, in part because transgender people are not allowed to be held in the cells of the opposite sex.
Recently, Secretary of the US Department of Homeland Security Jeh Johnson requested recommendations from homosexual advocacy groups regarding detention of LGBTQ illegals.
A conglomerate of LGBTQ organizations responded, recommending that ICE simply let all LGBTQ illegal aliens go free. "The most humane and the least expensive way to keep LGBT immigrants safe from mistreatment in custody is to release them on parole," the report stated.
Mark Krikorian, executive director of the Center for Immigration Studies, disagrees. "Without detention of illegal aliens there is no immigration enforcement," Krikorian told LifeSiteNews. "Illegal aliens – gay, straight, or otherwise – are detained, because otherwise they would simply not show up for immigration hearings, as we’ve seen with the vast majority of the 'unaccompanied' illegal-alien minors who surged into Texas last summer from Central America."
"Alternatives to detention, such as parole, only work with aliens who are reasonably confident they’re going to win legal status anyway," Krikorian explained. "The only punishment for ignoring your immigration court date is deportation – which is what would happen to almost all detained illegal aliens anyway. So, if you’re not in detention, why show up?"
Krikorian dismissed the idea of mass parole or release. "The LGBTQ angle is just a political gimmick – a way to make the illegal-alien detention issue relevant to another constituency," he said.
"The underlying goal of all campaigns like this is the same: elimination of the nation’s ability to police its borders," Krikorian concluded.
Other homosexual activists claim that homosexuals are being persecuted in their home countries and, therefore, must be admitted to the United States as refugees.
"If people believe they have a legitimate claim to political asylum, they certainly deserve to have their claims considered,” Ira Mehlman of the Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR) told LifeSiteNews. “However, not everyone who is gay or transgender is being politically persecuted, so merely falling into one of those categories should not automatically be grounds for being released into the U.S."
Mehlman noted that there are far more people around the world who are being persecuted than the U.S. has the ability to protect. Therefore, "we must be sure that the people who are admitted as refugees or asylees are those who are in the greatest imminent danger, with the least likelihood of being able to return home safely within a reasonable amount of time."
In the meantime, the Left wants to make the illegals' stay as accommodating as possible.
Last December, congressional Democrats asked the Health and Human Services Department’s Office of Refugee Resettlement to take extra steps to give LGBTQ detainees "affirming" care, including housing transgenders with whichever sex they prefer. “We request ORR to work with providers to ensure that LGBT unaccompanied minors receive affirming and culturally competent care, that placement and housing assignments for transgender youth are consistent with their [self-professed] gender identity," said Rep. Raul Grijalva, D-AZ.
Gay activists have also frequently complained that homosexuals may be segregated from the general detainee population, and transgender detainees do not get the highest quality American medical care, such as receiving hormone treatments to assist in "changing" one's gender.
ICE Press Secretary Gillian Christensen told The Washington Blade on Wednesday that ICE recently “established agency-wide policy and procedures for responding to incidents or allegations of sexual abuse or assault.” Christensen added that now transgender illegals can continue to receive expensive opposite-sex hormone therapy, at taxpayer expense.
Unrelenting, United We Dream's Carlos Padilla said the May 27 rally is just the beginning of a "Summer of Discontent," featuring direct action and Saul Alinsky-style community organizing.
"Conversations are getting us nowhere,” he said. “It's time for us to challenge their power with the power in our LGBTQ community."
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Why again do we have a border? Someone refresh my memory on that one.
Sounds like the “Sh*t on the Sheets” crowd is looking for fresh meat.
how did the majority have such little say in the direction the country is going?
transgenders and transsexuals have mental disorders!! body dysmorphia is an illness!! people have legs removed in other countries because of this illness!
same sex attraction is at best a genetic/hormonal defect and at worst a mental illness!!
I predict something far worse than what was happening a few years back.
Release them immediately in their home country of origin.
I can’t take much more of this insanity.
Homosexual activist need for illegal immigrants to claim to be gay because there is no scientific test to determine PC gay. So claiming to be gay would just be a loophole for illegals to get themselves released.
If the LGBTQRSTUVEIEIO crowd can demand special treatment, then the SMB (Straight Male Brigade) hereby demands the release of all the female, 19-40 year old, ‘black-haired beauties with big dark eyes’...
And it will turn out they are ALL gay and free to roam the country. . . . /sarc
And, yeah, I said choice.
Even if the "born that way" crowd is somewhat correct, nobody forces you to do anything.
I have Native American relatives who are predisposed toward alcoholism and that's a genetic fact. The large part of them have sworn off alcohol altogether, some by joining dry sects such as Mormons, Baptists and Seventh-day Adventists.
Even those who have given in to the self-destructive behavior of alcoholism don't try to claim it is normal and everybody else should just accept it or, worse yet, celebrate or embrace it under the cudgel of the law.
Friend of mine was (he is now ten years retired) a guard at LA county jail. They had the jail divided into different sections for different groups:
Black section
Mexican section
Gay section
white supremacists
everybody else
If they did not like you, or they wanted to punish someone, he would be put into the wrong section.
The worst was to be put into the gay section, if you were not gay. Not all the gays in jail are the crème puff hair dressers one might think. Those guys knew why someone was thrown in with them and it usually did not take to long for the assault to begin.
They are right. We should release all illegal swho claims to be gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, or “queer” (LGBTQ). Not only that, but we should provide them with transportation to their legal homes (confiscating assets, if any, as necessary to cover the expense of their deportation hearings and travel). To avoid discrimination, we should treat illegal aliens who claim to be normal exactly the same.
+1
Bump!
We have the border as a 100-mile wide strip of the outer portion of the US, as a region (containing 90% of the population) for extra and concentrated harassment of US Citizens.
Dontcha know the pervs will be licking their chops (no pun intended) at the thought of all those potential new sodomites to join the orgy.
> how did the majority have such little say in the direction
> the country is going?
Whaddya mean?
The majority is ALL IN on this!
The endless, relentless, unwaivering indoctrination and propaganda emanating from acadamia and the entertainment and news media have had an amazing effect in just a few short years.
The old Soviet Union and Communist China are “JV” when compared with the effectiveness of the American academia and media.
.... Of course there is no discrimination if a person is given obvious preferential treatment because of there sexual preference is there? ... Well ... not in the Liberal Activist universe any ways.
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