Advocacy group says trans woman was killed after US deported her back to El Salvador
Source: The Hill
Advocacy group says trans woman was killed after US deported her back to El Salvador
BY MORGAN GSTALTER - 02/21/19 10:43 PM EST
An transgender advocacy group says a trans women was killed shortly after the U.S. deported her back to her native El Salvador.
Camila Díaz Córdova, 31, fled from the country to the U.S. last year via a migrant caravan to escape violent threats against her life, Asociación Aspidh Arcoiris Trans (ASPIDH) told NBC News on Thursday.
Mónica Linares, director of ASPIDH, had known Díaz Córdova for 10 years and said she was frequently threatened, including documented cases reported to El Salvador’s National Civil Police in 2014.
Díaz Córdova petition for asylum while in the U.S. but was deported back to El Salvador sometime four to five months ago, Linares told the outlet.
Read more: https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/431085-advocacy-group-says-trans-woman-was-killed-after-us-deported-her-back
Camila Díaz Córdova
A Transgender Woman Who Sought Asylum In The US Was Deported And Killed In El Salvador
"If my ultimate sin is to investigate what happened to her, so be it," a friend said.
Adolfo Flores
BuzzFeed News Reporter
Posted on February 21, 2019, at 8:42 p.m. ET
Handout / Via Virginia Flores
Camila Díaz Córdova
A transgender woman who sought asylum in the US and was deported by immigration authorities to El Salvador was killed earlier this month, advocates say, highlighting the violent conditions LGBT migrants have fled in Central America to seek protection in the US.
Camila Díaz Córdova, 29, died on Feb. 3, days after she was found injured in Soyapango, a municipality in the outskirts of the capital, San Salvador, both a friend and trans advocate said.
Doctors told her friend, Virginia Flores, that she had either been brutally attacked or struck by a vehicle, and was transported to a hospital after she was found injured in a street.
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Díaz Córdova had requested asylum from US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) in the summer of 2017 in Tijuana, Flores said, fleeing to the US after gang members had tried to kill her. By November 2017 she had been deported to El Salvador, Flores said.
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https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/adolfoflores/transgender-migrant-killed-asylum-el-salvador
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