Download the full report in English. She made her way to the United States in to seek asylum, but after four months in immigration detention, in November , she was deported to El Salvador and to her eventual death. Prosecutors alleged that on January 31, , the officers had forced her into the back of a pickup truck, beaten her, and thrown her from the moving vehicle. She died several days later. It was the first time anyone had ever been convicted for killing a transgender person in El Salvador. While this ruling represented a much needed first step toward accountability for anti-trans violence in El Salvador, hate crimes against lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender LGBT people there and in neighboring Honduras and Guatemala have continued. Meanwhile, in the United States, the administration of Donald J. In March , the US government entirely closed its southern border to asylum seekers, leaving them to suffer persecution in their home countries or in Mexico. The Covid pandemic served as the pretext for the closure, but for years, the Trump administration had adopted increasingly severe measures aimed at preventing asylum seekers from ever reaching the United States and expelling them quickly if they did cross the border. Measures included a program forcing asylum seekers to remain in Mexico for lengthy periods, an expedited asylum review process allowing for little or no contact with lawyers, an attempt to bar asylum seekers who transited through third countries before arriving at the US border, and a policy of transferring asylum seekers to Guatemala, where they did not have effective protection.
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Anyone with an excavator has work, he says. I hear the sound of four-wheeled all-terrain-vehicles in the distance, humming as they near. In a cloud of dust, Cathy Bernier appears at the top of the hill, followed on another ATV by her two daughters. All of them are here for a vacation from a freezing Alberta December. Bernier, who works as a client-relations manager with the development, has agreed to take me on a tour of Campa Vista, a housing project for retired Canadians perched above the Caribbean Sea. With a wave from a security guard tuning his radio in a tiny booth, we pass under the front gate, a cement arch built over a dusty gravel road. Along one side, a high wall of earth shades the road, and on the other, a steep ditch drops away toward the ocean.
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