"The Trump administration has admitted "inadvertently" deporting a transgender woman back to her home country, despite of a court order that ruled she should not be removed there because of a risk of her being tortured. In a court filing last week, officials acknowledged that Britania Uriostegui Rios was deported to Mexico, in violation of a court order granted on 14 March."
"Last week, without her lawyer being notified, Rios was flown from Winn Correctional Center, in Winnfield, Louisiana, to Harlingen, Texas, close to the border between the US and Mexico, without money, her mental-health and HIV-prevention medication, gender-affirming hormones and her phone. "Since Britania's arrival in Mexico, she has managed to make only a few phone calls to her counsel in the United States, as she tries to piece together how to safely return and not die in the process," the court documents showed."
"An immigration judge ordered her deportation in March after she was convicted of assault with a deadly weapon in Las Vegas. However, the court ruled that she could not be sent to Mexico. According to the Trans Murder Monitoring Project and Transgender Law Center and Cornell University Law School LGBT Clinic, Mexico is one of the most dangerous places in the world for transgender people, with trans women in particular facing discrimination and violence, including rape, torture and murder."
US officials admitted that Britania Uriostegui Rios, a transgender long-term permanent US resident, was deported to Mexico in violation of a court order that barred her removal due to risk of torture. The government is working to return Rios to US custody, where ICE will detain her pending selection of a different destination; her legal team is suing to secure her release when she returns. Rios was ordered deported after a conviction for assault with a deadly weapon. She was flown to the border without notification to counsel, money, HIV-prevention and mental-health medication, gender-affirming hormones, or her phone, leaving her vulnerable in Mexico.
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