Uploaded January 2018 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
Death threats from violent gangs chased Cristel, a transgender woman, from her native El Salvador to the U.S. border.
In San Diego, after first being confined to solitary, Cristel was transferred to a cell that she shared with eight men. Her claim for asylum was denied. She was transferred to another detention center in Arizona, where she was handcuffed, put on a plane and sent back to a nightmare.
“I thought trans women were respected in the U.S.,” Cristel told us the last time we met up with her, in August. “I saw how a few of my friends lived, before Trump was elected. But things are no longer like that. They treated me like a parasite, like a criminal.”
Words by Josefina Salomón.
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Death threats from violent gangs chased Cristel, a transgender woman, from her native El Salvador to the U.S. border.
In San Diego, after first being confined to solitary, Cristel was transferred to a cell that she shared with eight men. Her claim for asylum was denied. She was transferred to another detention center in Arizona, where she was handcuffed, put on a plane and sent back to a nightmare.
“I thought trans women were respected in the U.S.,” Cristel told us the last time we met up with her, in August. “I saw how a few of my friends lived, before Trump was elected. But things are no longer like that. They treated me like a parasite, like a criminal.”
Words by Josefina Salomón.
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