Migrant caravan lgbtq
The first “wave” of the migrant caravan has arrived at the southern border, multiple outlets reported Wednesday. With assist from an LGBTQ advocacy organization, this group of about 80 mostly-LGBTQ people split off from the rest of the group after experiencing discrimination both from the communities along the way and from fellow travelers.
During a news conference Sunday, Honduran migrant Cesar Mejia explained, “Whenever we arrived at a stopping point the LGBT community was the last to be taken into account in every way. So our goal was to change that and say, ‘This hour we are going to be first.'” That mistreatment reportedly included being denied food and access to showers, even by local groups providing aid to others in the caravan.
According to Mejia, advocacy groups reached out after they arrived in Mexican territory and helped bus them ahead to the border. Even as they await the asylum process in a four-bedroom house in Tijuana, locals in their neighborhood are concerned that they are a threat to the community’s safety.
Many of the group’s members fled vicious persecution in their home countries because of their identities. In
Trans Queer Migrations and Border-Making: Central American LGBTQ+ Caravans as Life-Making Projects
by Nakay Flotte
“¡Esas, esas, esas que caminan, son las travestis, transexuales de América Latina!” (“Those, those, those that stroll are the transsexuals of Latin America”). These were the words shouted by a group of 200+ LGBTQ Central American refugees from Honduras, El Salvador, Guatemala, and Nicaragua after a meeting in Mexico City, during what came to be known as the 2018 Central American Exodus. These refugee leaders, and the practices of state persecution that came before and after the Central American Exodus, are at the center of my research.
The Central American Exodus of late 2018 and early 2019, during Trump’s presidential apogee, became a climax in the “caravanization” of Central Americans and others illegally and otherwise traversing Mexico in order to reach the US-Mexico border and explore asylum to the Joined States. The offshoring of the United States’ border security to halt Core American mobility in Mexico set the stage for the further “caravanization” of refugee and migrant mobility through Mexico as successfully as the rise of lower-scale criminal g
Mexican-born fine arts photographer Ada Trillo, photo-documented the 2018 and 2020 Central American migrant caravans pursuing asylum in Mexico and the U.S.
Trillo, a bisexual gal who lives in Philadelphia, traveled with the 2020 caravan members as they departed Honduras on Jan. 15 and made their way through Guatemala to Mexico. As they approached Mexico, the asylum seekers were divided into two groups, both of which were ultimately deported back to Honduras against their will. When one group of migrants initially tried to cross the Suchiate River at the Mexico/Guatemala border, they were tear-gassed by the Guardia Nacional, according to Trillo.
Many of the travelers were members of the LGBTQ+ society escaping extreme discrimination and violent living conditions in Honduras.
Same-sex marriage, adoption for same-sex couples and the legal recognition of trans people’s identities are banned in Honduras. The country’s LGBTQ people have been encountering violence and homicidal attacks at elevated rates. Since 2009, 277 LGBTI people have been murdered in Honduras, according to the statute organization Latin American Working Group via Cattrachas, an corporation devote
In Mexico caravan, LGBTQ migrants stick together for safety
MATIAS ROMERO, Mexico — Dozens of transgender women and gay men in the caravan moving through Mexico with hopes of looking for asylum in the Together States have banded together for protection — not from the uncertainty of a journey fraught with danger from the gangs who prey on migrants but from their fellow travelers.
Fleeing violence and discrimination back home because of their gender identity or sexual orientation, these LGBTQ migrants have found the journey north to be just as threatening amid catcalls and even physical abuse.
"Sweet little thing!" ''Baby, where you going?" ''How much do you charge?" These all-too-familiar jeers are spewed at them as they make their way with the caravan of several thousand.
Loly Mendez, a 28-year-old who began transitioning to a woman in her native El Salvador, knows all too good the dangers her fellow transgender migrants faced assist home: Her best confidant, also a transgender female, was murdered for doing the same.
Then Loly herself began getting threats — "that if my breasts were going to flourish , they would cut them off," she said. They were always anonymously delivered, which only m
Threat of violence at place spurs LGBT migrants on to the border
A community of LGBT migrants was among the first members of the so-called caravan to arrive in Tijuana this week, seeking asylum from some of the most violent countries in the world where homosexual and trans people are particularly targeted, according to Amnesty International.
"We came with the caravan, and the caravan continues," Cesar Mejia told reporters in Tijuana earlier this week.
Mejia said their group included about 80 people, including children, from Honduras, Nicaragua, El Salvador and Guatemala. As the week continued, hundreds of more migrants arrived in Tijuana, the Paired Press reported, although the majority of the caravan still appears to be more than 1,000 miles away.
A greater threat of violence
From the outside, many don't understand why people -- including families with small children -- would risk their lives to get to a state that has explicitly said it will not permit them in. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has said that people in the caravan will not be able to penetrate the U.S. illegally "no matter what," and many members of the Trump administration, includin