Gay Targeting in Mexico May Block Deportation from United States Jeff D. Gorman - Courthouse News Service
go to original August 23, 2013

Immigration officials must reconsider the plight of an HIV-positive gay man who claims that he will be persecuted if deported to Mexico, the 7th Circuit ruled.

Miguel Rosiles-Camarena, a Mexican citizen, entered the United States in 1977 at the age of 10. Since he never became an American citizen, however, he was ordered removed to Mexico after being convicted of felony indecent solicitation of a minor.

Rosiles-Camarena asked for relief under the Convention Against Torture, claiming that he would be persecuted in Mexico because he is openly gay and has HIV.

The immigration judge agreed with Rosiles-Camarena that deportation would put him at risk for persecution, noting that 148 people were killed in Mexico on the basis of their sexual orientation between 1995 and 2006.

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