Justice for Roxana - End ICE Detention of Trans Folks

Today's episode is our contribution to last week's Day of Action - Justice for Roxana. Sam and I offer a brief timeline and explanation of why we think its vital to engage in the discussion about justice for Roxana Hernandez, a trans woman who died in ICE custody at the end of May, and why a fair and just immigration and assylum process is an important LGBTQ issue. After our introduction, we shift to interivews with trans women who attended the vigil. These interviews have english tranlations thanks to Viridiana Hernandz and Kate Saunders who graciously agreed to translate for our english speaking audience. After the interviews, Kate, gives a brief summary of the entire vigil. After this summary we offer you the full Spanish language recording of the vigil and protest tha took place last Wednesday outside of the Phoenix ICE building. We had tried to schedule a lawyer to speak with us about the immigration, assylum, and detention processes, but were unable to schedule this interivew before the air date. We will continue to seek out an interview with a lawyer and will share that when we get it.

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