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Eugene

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Wed Nov 14, 2018, 08:22 AM Nov 2018

LGBT asylum seekers are first to reach the U.S. border from the caravan. Now they wait.

Source: Washington Post

LGBT asylum seekers are first to reach the U.S. border from the caravan. Now they wait.

By Sarah Kinosian and
Joshua Partlow November 13 at 5:21 PM

TIJUANA, Mexico — The front line of what President Trump calls a migrant “invasion” has arrived at the U.S. border — dozens of lesbian, gay and transgender asylum seekers from Central America.

The group has taken up shelter in a rented home in Tijuana, where they played Ariana Grande’s music Monday night as they sorted through donated clothes, drank strawberry-banana juice and discussed how the asylum process might play out.

“I cannot believe we actually made it here to the border,” said Andy Albaringa, 23, a trans woman from El Salvador. “The trip was so tiring.”

Small groups have split off from the main Central American caravan moving north through Mexico, and they are made up of people fleeing an array of dangers and difficulties: Guatemalans leaving behind poverty, Hondurans escaping gang violence, Nicaraguans running from a harsh political crackdown. The groups have also become a refuge for those persecuted because of their sexual orientation.

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Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/the_americas/the-first-caravan-migrants-arrive-at-the-us-border-and-begin-the-waiting-game/2018/11/13/ceef3844-e6b7-11e8-8449-1ff263609a31_story.html
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