Friend,

Every day transgender immigrants are detained by ICE is another day their health and lives are at risk.

Transgender people already face disproportionate violence and abuse. Transgender women are held twice as long in ICE detention centers -- and LGBT immigrants are 97 times more likely to face sexual abuse. This is cruel and absolutely unacceptable.

Ilhan is one of 45 members of Congress calling on ICE to release all transgender immigrants from its detention centers and needs 45 people from Washington to sign on to her petition.

Will you be one of the 45 supporters Ilhan needs?
 

Two transgender immigrants, Roxsana Hernandez Rodriguez and Johana Medina León, have died as a result of their time in ICE custody -- and the agency’s gross negligence is to blame. Despite ICE’s required standards for detaining transgender immigrants, none of its detention centers are contracted to safely house transgender immigrants. ICE must not only release all transgender immigrants but make sure they are safe and receive proper medical care upon leaving detention centers.

Be one of the 45 signers we need from Washington to demand that ICE release all transgender immigrants and place them in safe care.

Thank you for adding your name to demand justice and safety for transgender immigrants.

Team Ilhan