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ICE Responds to Abuse of Transgender Detainee Allegations

Last week, I wrote about the case of Nicoll Hernández-Polanco, a Guatemalan transgender woman who is detained in an all-male Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility in Florence. Mariposas Sin Fronteras, a Tucson LGBT/immigration advocacy group, and the Transgender Law Center wrote a letter denouncing the verbal, physical and sexual abuse Nicoll has endured while in custody. […]

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