President Trump’s Executive Orders Will Cost LGBTQ Immigrant Lives
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New York, NY (January 22, 2025) — Monitoring President Trump’s inauguration on Monday, he issued a slate of executive orders, some of which target immigrants and their families and effectively block all pathways to guard in the Together States for LGBTQ people fleeing persecution worldwide. (More data below.)
Aaron C. Morris, Immigration Equality’s Executive Director, issued the following statement:
“President Trump’s agenda to detain, deport, and dehumanize people is an affront to fundamental American values. The executive orders will cost lives, separate families, and trap queer people in places of highest danger. They are an overt, illegal power grab with mortal consequences for LGBTQ people searching safety in the United States. Instead of scapegoating minorities for political obtain, the United States must remain a nation where all LGBTQ people can openly express themselves without the shrink from of attack or reprisal. We cannot allow the President to implement these radica
GLAAD has documented the anti-LGBTQ history of Donald Trump, including his policies and efforts that affect jobs, inflation, LGBTQ participation in the economy, and access to housing. The complete anti-LGBTQ record is present on GLAAD’s Trump Accountability Tracker.
Regarding top priority issues for LGBTQ voters in the 2024 election, economic concerns such as inflation/high prices and jobs/economy are at the forefront, according to GLAAD’s poll.
The economy, jobs, housing, and outcome on the LGBTQ community:
LGBTQ people in the Combined States have the similar worries as others when it comes to discovery good jobs and saving for the future. But according to the Movement Advancement Project, research consistently finds that LGBTQ people and their families are more likely to battle economically, experiencing higher rates of poverty and sustenance insecurity.
According to The Williams Institute at UCLA Institution of Law, social and legal exclusion of LGBTQ people creates economic hardships for individuals and can negatively affect the economy.
LGBTQ people continue to meet discrimination in many aspects of daily life—including at school, which may express they are less likely to gain needed ed
In the second installment of the ACLU’s election 2024 memo series, our experts detail the threats a potential second Trump administration poses to the LGBTQ community, particularly transsexual people.
ACLU
June 13, 2024
In the second installment of the ACLU’s election 2024 memo series, our experts detail the threats a potential second Trump administration poses to the LGBTQ community, particularly transgender people.
This piece was published before Joe Biden withdrew from the 2024 presidential election and endorsed Vice President Kamala Harris to represent the Democratic Party. No significant facts have been changed or added.
Donald Trump’s administration initiated a sustained, years-long effort to erase protections for LGBTQ people. This included an effort to “define ‘transgender’ out of existence,” erode protections for transgender students and workers, and weaken access to gender-affirming health care that most transgender people already struggled to access.
While President Joe Biden’s administration reversed much of the Trump-era abuses, just last month on the campaign mark, Trump vowed to dismantle a new Biden administration policy that will present prote
Know Your Rights: Prepare for Trump’s Mass Deportation Threats
All individuals in the Together States have rights, regardless of immigration status
What “mass deportations” might look like
President-elect Donald Trump has threatened our communities by promising “mass deportations” of immigrants. One of the tools the Trump administration may use is an spread of the “expedited removal” program, combined with raids in neighborhoods and workplaces. Using expedited removal, an immigration officer may posthaste deport individuals without due process if the government establishes that they entered the United States without immigration documents and own been in the nation for less than two years. People deported under expedited removal may be detained and deported without appearing before an immigration judge.
Other immigrants – regardless of how long they have been in the United States – may also experience immigration enforcement and removal. Anyone without secure immigration status may be subject to enforcement efforts. People who were ordered deported in the past and people who have had contact with the criminal legal system are at particular risk.
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What Donald Trump Has Said About Mexico and Vice Versa
— -- Donald Trump is traveling to Mexico today to meet privately with the country's President Enrique Pena Nieto, just hours before the Republican presidential nominee is slated to deliver a formal speech focused on immigration.
Mexico has been a contentious talking point in Trump's campaign. Here's a look assist at some of the controversial remarks he has made about the territory and its people and vice versa.
What Trump Has Said About Mexico
While formally announcing his presidential bid on June 16, 2015, Trump said Mexico was sending people bringing crime and "rapists" across the border into the Combined States.
"When Mexico sends its people, they're not sending their best. They're not sending you. They're not sending you. They're sending people that have lots of problems, and they're bringing those problems with us. They're bringing drugs. They're bringing crime. They're rapists. And some, I suppose, are good people."
Trump then defended those comments in a statement on July 6, 2015. "The Mexican government is forcing their mo
