Upon returning to the White House, President Donald Trump promised to use and expand the Guantanamo Bay naval base in Cuba to house migrants waiting for deportation. Although that operation has largely come to a halt amid legal battles, a Brazilian transgender asylum seeker is now telling her experience in detention, where, she says, she was forced to expose herself in front of other detainees, given little food, and denied contact with her family and lawyer.
Tarlis Marcon De Barros Goncalves entered the U.S. on Feb. 15, seeking asylum from repeated threats to her life in Brazil. However, she was immediately detained at Otero County Processing Center, an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) jail in New Mexico until roughly February 26, when she was abruptly flown to a U.S. detention center in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, she recounted in a report published by Them.us.
