"A same-sex female couple in Pennsylvania is suffering through a "Kafkaesque nightmare" after one of the women was detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) when she showed up for a regularly scheduled immigration check-in. ICE agents detained her and shipped her to a detention center in California. Xiomara Suarez, 28, arrived in the U.S. in 2022 seeking asylum after fleeing Peru, where she was stalked and endured a violent sexual assault based on her sexual orientation."
"In February, Suarez married her then-girlfriend, Grazi Chiosque, 29, an American citizen. The couple hoped to adjust Suarez's immigration status and smooth the way for her to obtain a green card. They filed the required documents in May. Before that request was processed, however, Suarez was swept up in a wave of detentions by ICE at courthouses targeting immigrants scheduled for hearings - only to be arrested and shipped to detention centers despite their legal non-criminal status. Suarez was now one of them."
"Chiosque says her wife is enduring degrading and isolating conditions at the Adelanto ICE detention facility in Southern California, where she's been detained since September. "There's mold in the food," Chiosque said. "You don't have any privacy." "She was put into shackles," Suarez's wife added. "She told me that crying because it really made her feel like she did something that was wrong, and she didn't.""
A same-sex couple in Pennsylvania is confronting immigration separation after Xiomara Suarez was detained by ICE during a routine check-in and transferred to a California detention center. Suarez entered the U.S. in 2022 seeking asylum after stalking and a violent sexual assault in Peru tied to her sexual orientation; Peruvian police allegedly refused protection. Suarez was paroled into the U.S. while pursuing permanent status and married an American citizen in February, with adjustment paperwork filed in May. Before processing, ICE detained Suarez amid a broader wave of courthouse arrests. Family reports describe moldy food, lack of privacy, shackling, and emotional distress at the Adelanto facility.
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