Christopher Wiggins

Trump admin is trying to deport LGBTQ+ asylum-seekers to countries where they'd be killed, lawyers say Attorneys say new transfer agreements and court tactics allow the U.S. to sidestep asylum rulings, risking removals to countries where LGBTQ people face imprisonment, torture, or execution.

SCOOP: The Trump administration recently signed an agreement with Uganda to accept asylum-seekers deported from the U.S.

Being LGBTQ+ is punishable by death there. And yet, DHS is trying to send queer and trans people there (and to Iran).

www.advocate.com/politics/imm...

Trump DOJ lied to D.C. federal appeals court about trans military ban, lawyers say in stunning filing “We hope the court recognizes that they were hearing a number of misrepresentations and that they will carefully read the record in this case,” attorney Shannon Minter told The Advocate.

NEWS: “It is telling that the government seems to recognize that it can’t defend this irrational policy without misrepresenting the facts,” lead counsel Shannon Minter told me.

www.advocate.com/news/doj-mis...

Alex Pretti’s killers placed on administrative leave as Kristi Noem’s story of the shooting unravels After days of outrage, two federal agents with the Department of Homeland Security, who shot and killed the ICU nurse, have been sidelined.

The Trump administration's house of cards is falling apart.

www.advocate.com/news/alex-pr...

Jonathan Capehart on being seen, coming out, and ‘chosen family’ with Michelle Obama “No one has a right to your time, your energy, your thoughts and feelings, especially when they are a drain,” the Pulitzer-Prize-winning journalist and host of MS NOW’s The Weekend told The Advocate.

“I love it when someone says, ‘Oh, I don’t watch television,’” MS NOW host Jonathan Capehart told me in an interview this week. “And I’m like, oh, you’re lucky.”

www.advocate.com/news/people/...

Trump admin is trying to deport LGBTQ+ asylum-seekers to countries where they'd be killed, lawyers say Attorneys say new transfer agreements and court tactics allow the U.S. to sidestep asylum rulings, risking removals to countries where LGBTQ people face imprisonment, torture, or execution.

SCOOP: The Trump administration recently signed an agreement with Uganda to accept asylum-seekers deported from the U.S.

Being LGBTQ+ is punishable by death there. And yet, DHS is trying to send queer and trans people there (and to Iran).

www.advocate.com/politics/imm...

Trump DOJ lied to D.C. federal appeals court about trans military ban, lawyers say in stunning filing “We hope the court recognizes that they were hearing a number of misrepresentations and that they will carefully read the record in this case,” attorney Shannon Minter told The Advocate.

NEWS: “It is telling that the government seems to recognize that it can’t defend this irrational policy without misrepresenting the facts,” lead counsel Shannon Minter told me.

www.advocate.com/news/doj-mis...

Alex Pretti’s killers placed on administrative leave as Kristi Noem’s story of the shooting unravels After days of outrage, two federal agents with the Department of Homeland Security, who shot and killed the ICU nurse, have been sidelined.

The Trump administration's house of cards is falling apart.

www.advocate.com/news/alex-pr...

Jonathan Capehart on being seen, coming out, and ‘chosen family’ with Michelle Obama “No one has a right to your time, your energy, your thoughts and feelings, especially when they are a drain,” the Pulitzer-Prize-winning journalist and host of MS NOW’s The Weekend told The Advocate.

“I love it when someone says, ‘Oh, I don’t watch television,’” MS NOW host Jonathan Capehart told me in an interview this week. “And I’m like, oh, you’re lucky.”

www.advocate.com/news/people/...

Are you transgender and/or nonbinary and currently a federal employee whose job or benefits–including health insurance coverage–has been impacted by the actions of the Trump administration?

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Virginia court blocks Democratic redistricting effort Democrats plan to appeal the ruling. If upheld, it would keep the party from redrawing state congressional districts to net as many as four House seats in the midterms.

This Virginia judge seems to be using the Mitch McConnell argument from his Merrick Garland SCOTUS denial of “you can’t do that because there’s an election.”

www.nbcnews.com/politics/202...

‘Ground is clearly shifting’ against Trump as Americans rise up in Minneapolis, Pete Buttigieg says “Congressional Republicans have begun changing their behavior,” the out former transportation secretary said.

Pete Buttigieg said that Donald Trump is “doing the one thing he claims he’ll never do, which is back down.”

www.advocate.com/politics/pet...

‘Ground is clearly shifting’ against Trump as Americans rise up in Minneapolis, Pete Buttigieg says “Congressional Republicans have begun changing their behavior,” the out former transportation secretary said.

Pete Buttigieg said that Donald Trump is “doing the one thing he claims he’ll never do, which is back down.”

www.advocate.com/politics/pet...

Call it the Pretti-Good American Gun Protection Act

Sarah McBride demands Trump administration release severely disabled Delaware resident from ICE custody “He is the exact kind of individual that our asylum system is meant to protect,” the Delaware congresswoman said.

“The detainment and now the order to deport Victor Acurio Suárez is morally bankrupt,” Congresswoman Sarah McBride said.

www.advocate.com/news/sarah-m...

Sarah McBride demands Trump administration release severely disabled Delaware resident from ICE custody “He is the exact kind of individual that our asylum system is meant to protect,” the Delaware congresswoman said.

“The detainment and now the order to deport Victor Acurio Suárez is morally bankrupt,” Congresswoman Sarah McBride said.

www.advocate.com/news/sarah-m...

Amid these dark moments, something important is beginning to shift.

It's clearly the result of healthy political pressure - which we must sustain, and build.

leading with "I've infiltrated their Signal!" and then moving on to explain that he didn't is sending me

enter the bagman

Trump’s ‘unqualified insurrectionist’ pick to be Wyoming U.S. attorney under fire for anti-LGBTQ+ record "He’s an unqualified insurrectionist with no experience litigating criminal or federal matters, and his bigotry puts into serious question his commitment to upholding the law for all Americans,” Josh ...

“Anti-LGBTQ+ extremist Darin Smith has no business serving as a top law enforcement officer in any state — let alone a state with as much history of queer importance as Wyoming,” Josh Sorbe, spokesperson for Senate Judiciary Committee Democrats & Dick Durbin, told me.

advocate.com/politics/wyo...

Federal immigration agents are a modern-day ‘slave patrol,’ says former Minneapolis City Council president “When we make the comparison to the Gestapo...when people say, ‘Oh, this is not us’ — no, this is us,” Andrea Jenkins told The Advocate.

NEWS: “When we make the comparison to the Gestapo...when people say, ‘Oh, this is not us’ — no, this is us,” Andrea Jenkins told me about ICE and Border Patrol agents in Minneapolis.

www.advocate.com/politics/sta...

Powerful House Oversight Democrat calls for Kristi Noem’s impeachment & ICE abolishment “ICE in its current form cannot exist because what they’re doing right now is killing people in the street,” U.S. Rep. Robert Garcia said.

“This agency has gone completely rogue. ICE needs to be abolished. It cannot be reformed, and Kristi Noem must be impeached,” Robert Garcia said.

advocate.com/politics/robert-garcia-kristi-noem-impeachment

Border Patrol chief Greg Bovino and some of his masked agents will leave Minneapolis After two American citizens were killed under his watch, the Trump administration's face of hardline deportation policies is leaving Minnesota.

BREAKING: The face of Trump's hardline goon squad will be leaving Minneapolis.

But he's being replaced by Tom Homan, who hasn't been much better.
www.advocate.com/news/greg-bo...

Border Patrol chief Greg Bovino and some of his masked agents will leave Minneapolis After two American citizens were killed under his watch, the Trump administration's face of hardline deportation policies is leaving Minnesota.

BREAKING: The face of Trump's hardline goon squad will be leaving Minneapolis.

But he's being replaced by Tom Homan, who hasn't been much better.
www.advocate.com/news/greg-bo...

Powerful House Oversight Democrat calls for Kristi Noem’s impeachment & ICE abolishment “ICE in its current form cannot exist because what they’re doing right now is killing people in the street,” U.S. Rep. Robert Garcia said.

“This agency has gone completely rogue. ICE needs to be abolished. It cannot be reformed, and Kristi Noem must be impeached,” Robert Garcia said.

advocate.com/politics/robert-garcia-kristi-noem-impeachment

Please spread the word:
If you’re an attorney representing LGBTQ+ people being deported to a dangerous country by federal immigration agents, I want to talk to you.

Please reach out here, on Signal (my ID is in my bio), or by email!

christopher dot wiggins
at
equalpride dot com

Federal immigration agents are a modern-day ‘slave patrol,’ says former Minneapolis City Council president “When we make the comparison to the Gestapo...when people say, ‘Oh, this is not us’ — no, this is us,” Andrea Jenkins told The Advocate.

NEWS: “When we make the comparison to the Gestapo...when people say, ‘Oh, this is not us’ — no, this is us,” Andrea Jenkins told me about ICE and Border Patrol agents in Minneapolis.

www.advocate.com/politics/sta...

YouTube video by Team Bree for Virginia Stay and Fight

A year ago tomorrow, Trump fired me for who I am. After 20+ years in uniform, I was pushed out.

I’m running for Congress in Virginia so no American is treated as disposable, and every person can chase their dreams.

Join me: TeamBree.com

Please spread the word:
If you’re an attorney representing LGBTQ+ people being deported to a dangerous country by federal immigration agents, I want to talk to you.

Please reach out here, on Signal (my ID is in my bio), or by email!

christopher dot wiggins
at
equalpride dot com