OBTE!!! one behind the ear...
Posted on 09/04/2015 3:00:52 AM PDT by markomalley
A transgender illegal immigrant who suffered years of sexual and physical abuse in Mexico cannot be deported despite a felony conviction because she is protected under international anti-torture conventions, a U.S. appeals court ruled on Thursday.
In granting Edin Carey Avendano-Hernandez the right to remain in the United States, a three-member 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals panel found that a federal immigration board that ordered her deported had mixed sexual orientation with gender identity.
The justices also disagreed with a finding by the Board of Immigration Appeals that recent anti-discrimination laws in Mexico had made it safer for transgender individuals to live there.
"Country conditions evidence shows that police specifically target the transgender community for extortion and sexual favors and that Mexico suffers from an epidemic of unsolved violent crimes against transgender persons," Judge Jacqueline Nguyen wrote for the 9th Circuit panel.
"Avendano-Hernandez, who takes female hormones and dresses as a woman, is therefore a conspicuous target for harassment and abuse," Nguyen wrote in the 20-page ruling.
(Excerpt) Read more at reuters.com ...
If you were a Mexican facing deportation, wouldn’t you have get yourself a slinky dress and try it? Hell yes! Heck, if you get the right judge, he may just vacate your sentence.
Mexico sounds like a terrible place. Get Jorge Ramos on the story......
“Heck, if you get the right judge, he may just vacate your sentence.”
Even better: He/she/it just may ask you out for a date before he/she/it vacates your sentence.
A “test” you know.......
OBTE!!! one behind the ear...
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