For a Gay Asylum Seeker, Trump’s ICE Crackdowns Strike Terror

Over the past week, the Trump administration has deployed thousands of troops, including the National Guard and the Marines, to crack down on protests in Los Angeles against ICE raids in the latest act of their ongoing legal and military attacks on undocumented immigrants. Kelvin, a gay man from Harare, Zimbabwe, is one of over 11 millionundocumented immigrants in the U.S.—many of whom are afraid of being deported. He’s also one of the 100,000 people in the 2024 fiscal year who sought asylum in the U.S. because of their LGBTQ identity and one of the 1 million asylum cases pending determination. “As an LGBTQ […]