Transgender Mexican Women Deported from US to Life of Peril in Mexico Amy Lieberman - WeNews
go to original August 26, 2013

This movie is about three Mexican transgender women in Los Angeles filing for political asylum. (Isabel Castro)

MEXICO CITY - The second time Deborah Alvarez was deported from the United States in 2005, after she was detained for prostitution solicitation tickets, she knew she would have to stay in Ciudad Juarez for a while.

Alvarez wanted to go back to the country where she felt she could freely walk down the streets wearing a dress or a skirt without anyone hassling her, as her family once did.

But the possibility of crossing the Texas border and winding up getting detained, trapped in an immigration confinement facility and housed with hundreds of men, was unthinkable for Alvarez, a transgender woman.

Alvarez hadn't lived in the Mexican border city since 1984, when she headed to neighboring El Paso, Texas, at the age of 13. But even after all those years, she knew life for her wouldn't be any different in Mexico.

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