Nov 15, 2018 10:01 PM
(This post was last modified: Nov 15, 2018 10:03 PM by C C.)
James Randi's husband Jose Alvarez entered the US illegally and took on a stolen identity to escape the "hostile to LGBT" culture of Latin America. Given how dangerously homophobic the US is occasionally propaganda-portrayed by its own applicable residents... Just imagine how much more so it is among the throwback Catholicism mindset crossing the border, that Alvarez and others sought being a faux legal immigrant or faux American citizen even back in the 1980s.
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/ado...-it-to-the
EXCERPT: Standing on the beach in Tijuana on Wednesday, Christian caught his first glimpse of the United States. The country he was hoping to call his own was partially obscured behind a metal border fence in the process of being reinforced with barbed wire by construction crews surrounded by US soldiers.
Christian, who declined to give his last name out of fear of damaging his potential asylum case, was part of an LGBT contingent of the caravan that separated from the main group in Mexico City to head for Tijuana. The contingent said it faced discrimination from within the caravan in addition to the dangers that such a visible group faced on the journey through Mexico.
“We went ahead of the main caravan because we put our lives at risk on the road,” Christian told BuzzFeed News. “My heart feels lighter now that we’re here, we’re so close.”
The gay 24-year-old from Guatemala said that someone threw a bottle at him during the caravan’s march north. When the group, which includes several transgender women, would try to hitchhike while traveling with the main caravan, drivers who were offering a lift to other members of the caravan would deny them rides or leave them stranded along desolate highways, Christian said....
MORE: https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/ado...-it-to-the
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/ado...-it-to-the
EXCERPT: Standing on the beach in Tijuana on Wednesday, Christian caught his first glimpse of the United States. The country he was hoping to call his own was partially obscured behind a metal border fence in the process of being reinforced with barbed wire by construction crews surrounded by US soldiers.
Christian, who declined to give his last name out of fear of damaging his potential asylum case, was part of an LGBT contingent of the caravan that separated from the main group in Mexico City to head for Tijuana. The contingent said it faced discrimination from within the caravan in addition to the dangers that such a visible group faced on the journey through Mexico.
“We went ahead of the main caravan because we put our lives at risk on the road,” Christian told BuzzFeed News. “My heart feels lighter now that we’re here, we’re so close.”
The gay 24-year-old from Guatemala said that someone threw a bottle at him during the caravan’s march north. When the group, which includes several transgender women, would try to hitchhike while traveling with the main caravan, drivers who were offering a lift to other members of the caravan would deny them rides or leave them stranded along desolate highways, Christian said....
MORE: https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/ado...-it-to-the