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   From: sray@costco.com   
      
   It ain't a "her".   
      
   April Amaya-Luis, a 43-year-old transgender woman from Mexico, has been in   
   the United States for 25 years. Though out of status currently, she has   
   established a life here, had a job, and married the man she had been with   
   for six years. Now she sits in a males-only prison in Miami, Florida, in   
   solitary confinement she requested for her own safety. It is an ordeal   
   resulting in large part from President Donald Trump’s policies   
   prioritizing deportation of immigrants, weaponizing the belief that only   
   two sexes exist, and a White House tweet containing a falsehood about her   
   criminal record.   
      
   Amaya-Luis pled guilty in January 2025 to second degree assault, receiving   
   six months’ probation and no jail time. In her 25 years of being in the   
   United States, it was her first ever criminal interaction.  She was   
   complying with the law by checking in with her parole officer in Kent   
   County, Maryland on Feb. 4, 2025. It was there the real ordeal began for   
   her, her husband, and family.   
      
   At the parole check-in on Feb. 4, she was arrested by Immigration and   
   Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers for being in the country illegally. ICE   
   officers brought her to the hold room in Downtown Baltimore’s ICE field   
   office. According to Rachel Girod, her attorney, the immigrants’ rights   
   group Amica confirmed that 72 hours is the maximum length of time ICE can   
   keep someone in the hold room.   
      
   Amaya-Luis was in the hold room for seven days. There are no beds or cots,   
   only benches attached to the wall. “It’s not meant to be anywhere that you   
   are for more than a couple of hours, and usually it’s not,” Girod said.   
      
   Girod told Fishbowl that in addition to pleading guilty to “offensive   
   touching,” which is considered second-degree assault, Amaya-Luis pled not   
   guilty to an agreed statement of facts with the prosecutor and received   
   Probation Before Judgement (PBJ). “For Maryland purposes, [the PBJ] is not   
   a conviction. For immigration purposes, it is one, but not a deportable   
   conviction.”   
      
   On the day after her arrest by ICE, The White House tweeted this, using   
   April’s deadname:   
      
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   “MAKE AMERICA SAFE AGAIN: Victor Amaya-Luis, a Mexican national, was   
   arrested by ICE Baltimore on February 4, 2025. Conviction: Assault   
   stemming from sex abuse of a minor. Amaya-Luis received six months’   
   probation.”   
      
   As of this writing, the tweet had 218 “likes,” 46 retweets, five comments,   
   and nearly 7,900 views.   
      
   The falsehood? Amaya-Luis’ conviction had nothing to do with a minor. The   
   alleged victim was an adult.   
      
   “[The White House] posted a male name with a photo of an individual   
   presenting as female and stated that she had a conviction that stemmed   
   from child sexual abuse,” Girod said. “Some of the most harmful narratives   
   around trans people have to do with their sexual demons, deviancy, and   
   being a danger to your children.”   
      
   A fag is a fag.   
      
   https://baltimorefishbowl.com/stories/maryland-trans-woman-all-male-   
   florida-ice-facility/   
      
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