Immigration officials have dropped their plans to relocate dozens of transgender detainees who identify as women to a remote detention center in Southern California, a spokesperson for Immigration and Customs Enforcement told Fusion. The facility in Adelanto would have been the first U.S. immigration detention center to house trans women alongside other female detainees.
Currently, transgender women are locked up alongside men, where they report disproportionate instances of sexual abuse. Officials had been planning to relocate at least two dozen transgender women, many of them asylum seekers detained under the agency’s mandatory detention guidelines.
“U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is no longer pursuing Adelanto as a location to house transgender women on a long-term basis,” agency spokeswoman Virginia Kice wrote in an email to Fusion.
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