Transgender asylum seeker released from ICE custody after order from federal judge
Portland, Oregon. – A transgender asylum seeker in Mexico has been released from a detention center for immigration to Washington state, where she was detained for more than a month after her arrest before an Oregon immigration court, lawyers announced on Tuesday.
The release of transgender women, identified in court documents like OJM, intervened after a federal judge of Oregon ordered immigration and customs on Monday to release it. In his order, the American district judge Amy Baggio wrote that OJM had been deprived of his freedom by the government without regular procedure.
The law of non-profit innovation law, whose lawyers represent the OJM, said on Tuesday in an email that it was “now at home with her family”.
“We are grateful that the court has recognized that OJM deserves to be free while its business takes place,” the group said in a statement sent by e-mail. “No one should be punished for asking for security.”
OJM said in court documents that she had crossed the border in September 2023, two years after being raped by members of the cartel because of her gender, and had regularly registered in ice offices as indicated.
OJM was arrested before the Portland immigration court in early June after a judge granted the government’s request to reject its case. She was then transferred to an ICE detention center in Tacoma, Washington, where she was owned for more than 40 days.
