April Amaya-Luis, a 43-year-old transgender woman originally from Mexico and married to a Maryland man, was apprehended by ICE officers earlier this month and now awaits a hearing in an all-male facility in Miami, Florida. A tweet from The White House, which included Amaya-Luis’s deadname and misinformation about her charges, has fanned the flames against her.
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