willidleaway:

This could probably still use a signal boost:

Nina Chaubal, founder of Trans Lifeline and a nationally recognized
suicide prevention advocate, has been taken by border patrol in Arizona
and put into […] an ICE facility in Eloy, Arizona with a history of human rights abuses towards trans women.

Media coverage is minimal, but read a piece here. Make noise with minimal effort here.

Quick reality check:

This case is laden with issues of selective enforcement and navigation of the US immigration bureaucracy as a trans* person. Unfortunately, as it stands, she may not have a whole lot of legal ground to stand on as far as remaining in the States without a valid work visa, a spouse visa, or permanent resident status. No idea what the chances are of getting her moved to a different detention facility, but it’s probably better than the chances of getting her outright released at this point.

Trans Lifeline (+1 877 565 8860) is a grassroots crisis intervention hotline based in the States, operated for trans* people by trans* volunteers. It is run by the sort of Silicon Valley folks who unapologetically use buzzwords like ‘data-driven’ and ‘peer-to-peer’, and I do wish they’d actually vet their operators rather than train and monitor them, but gosh darn it, it’s a really good idea that deserves to grow into a great functioning resource.

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