Der Bill May Protect LGBT Illegal Immigrants From Detention

Border authorities would be prohibited from detaining unlawful immigrants who identify as LGBT in almost every situation under regulations introduced this week by parliamentary Democrats.

The Dignity for Detained Immigrants Act, sponsored by dozens of Democrats including Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D., Wash.) and Sen. Cory Booker (D., N.J.), would set a norm that “vulnerable” migrants “may not be detained,” Fox News reported. Vulnerable groups, according to the bill, include migrants who identify as “lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, or intersex,” don’t speak English, or have experienced “severe trauma.”

” This action will go a long way toward restoring humanity and dignity to the immigration system.” Jayapal spoke about the law.

The proposal comes as illegal immigration surges on the southern border. Border Patrol agents reported 162,317 migrant encounters in March, an increase of 32,000 migrants from February. Eleven of the migrants had names matching ones on the terror watch list, the Washington Times reported.

Title 42, the policy allowing agents to turn illegal immigrants away due to the pandemic, will expire on May 11. Biden’s enforcement of it has come into question, with new reporting showing the administration accepted 99 percent of migrants’ requests made through an immigration app for exemptions from the policy. 

According to the Democrats’ bill, the Department of Homeland Security could only hold a migrant who had been classified as” vulnerable” if it could demonstrate that enrolling the alien in an community-based supervision program would be” unreasonable or impractical.”

Numerous other provisions in the act, such as a” presumption that the alien may be released” during custody hearings, make it more challenging to prosecute immigrants of any standing.