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It ain't a "her".

April Amaya-Luis, a 43-year-old transgender woman from Mexico, has been in
the United States for 25 years. Though out of status currently, she has established a life here, had a job, and married the man she had been with
for six years. Now she sits in a males-only prison in Miami, Florida, in solitary confinement she requested for her own safety. It is an ordeal resulting in large part from President Donald Trump’s policies
prioritizing deportation of immigrants, weaponizing the belief that only
two sexes exist, and a White House tweet containing a falsehood about her criminal record.

Amaya-Luis pled guilty in January 2025 to second degree assault, receiving
six months’ probation and no jail time. In her 25 years of being in the
United States, it was her first ever criminal interaction. She was
complying with the law by checking in with her parole officer in Kent
County, Maryland on Feb. 4, 2025. It was there the real ordeal began for
her, her husband, and family.

At the parole check-in on Feb. 4, she was arrested by Immigration and
Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers for being in the country illegally. ICE officers brought her to the hold room in Downtown Baltimore’s ICE field
office. According to Rachel Girod, her attorney, the immigrants’ rights
group Amica confirmed that 72 hours is the maximum length of time ICE can
keep someone in the hold room.

Amaya-Luis was in the hold room for seven days. There are no beds or cots,
only benches attached to the wall. “It’s not meant to be anywhere that you
are for more than a couple of hours, and usually it’s not,” Girod said.

Girod told Fishbowl that in addition to pleading guilty to “offensive touching,” which is considered second-degree assault, Amaya-Luis pled not guilty to an agreed statement of facts with the prosecutor and received Probation Before Judgement (PBJ). “For Maryland purposes, [the PBJ] is not
a conviction. For immigration purposes, it is one, but not a deportable conviction.”

On the day after her arrest by ICE, The White House tweeted this, using
April’s deadname:

https://i0.wp.com/baltimorefishbowl.com/wp- content/uploads/2025/02/Screenshot-2025-02-17-at- 11.48.16%E2%80%AFPM.png?resize=346%2C400&ssl=1

“MAKE AMERICA SAFE AGAIN: Victor Amaya-Luis, a Mexican national, was
arrested by ICE Baltimore on February 4, 2025. Conviction: Assault
stemming from sex abuse of a minor. Amaya-Luis received six months’
probation.”

As of this writing, the tweet had 218 “likes,” 46 retweets, five comments,
and nearly 7,900 views.

The falsehood? Amaya-Luis’ conviction had nothing to do with a minor. The alleged victim was an adult.

“[The White House] posted a male name with a photo of an individual
presenting as female and stated that she had a conviction that stemmed
from child sexual abuse,” Girod said. “Some of the most harmful narratives around trans people have to do with their sexual demons, deviancy, and
being a danger to your children.”

A fag is a fag.

https://baltimorefishbowl.com/stories/maryland-trans-woman-all-male- florida-ice-facility/

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