From Fox News: A Mexican transgender migrant seeking asylum in the U.S. after allegedly being abducted and raped by cartel members has been ordered released from an all-male Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detention facility by a federal judge on due process grounds.
U.S. District Court Judge Amy Baggio, a President Joe Biden appointee, ordered the migrant released from the Northwest ICE Processing Center in Tacoma, Washington, ruling that the asylum seeker had been deprived of liberty without proper procedural safeguards.
The migrant, a 24-year-old transgender woman identified as “O-J-M” in court documents, was arrested outside a Portland courtroom last month and transferred to the Northwest ICE Processing Center in Tacoma, Washington.
The nonprofit Innovation Law Lab, whose attorneys represent O-J-M, welcomed the move and decried the fact O-J-M was being held at a man’s facility.
O-J-M is a biological male identifying as a woman, and was arrested in early June in Portland’s immigration court, after a judge approved the government’s request to dismiss the asylum case. O-J-M has since been held in an ICE detention facility in Tacoma, Washington.
O-J-M’s lawyers then filed a petition, claiming they didn’t know where their client was being held, and a judge determined that ICE had failed “to provide timely, specific information about the migrant’s location.”
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