#aclu-litigation

#aclu-litigation

Last month, a 20-year-old Guatemalan man who came to the United States when he was 2 years old was detained at a gas station by heavily armed men in black military-style uniforms, sent to Alligator Alcatraz, the notorious immigration detention center in the Florida Everglades, and eventually ended up on a deportation flight back to Guatemala, according to a sworn declaration filed this week in San Diego federal court.

"The lower courts have made abundantly clear how discriminatory and baseless the State Department's new policy is and the harm it poses for hundreds of thousands of people like our clients," said Li Nowlin-Sohl, Staff Attorney for the ACLU's LGBTQ & HIV Project. "People across the country depend on identity documents that accurately reflect their identity-who they are in their workplaces, their schools, and their communities. The administration's attempts to deny that right to transgender, nonbinary, and intersex people has no basis in law or policy, and we'll continue to fight this policy until it is permanently de