ACLU — standing watch
Posted on August 16, 2008
San Jose Mercury News: ACLU sues for release of transgendered immigrant
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transgenderedMexicanwoman who was granted asylum in the U.S. should be released immediately from the immigration jail while her case is under appeal, the American Civil Liberties Union said in a lawsuit filed Thursday.The ACLU said Oscar
“Diana”Santander should be released while the government appeals an immigration judge’s ruling in May that granted Santander asylum becauseshe would be at risk of torture if deported to Mexico.
OK. I have decided today that I am Samoan. Every time I am referenced in a news story, I must be referred to as a Samoan. That is my ethno-identity and the media must play along with my game of make-believe. I guess that is a side note…
Santander, 42, came to California illegally in 1994 but was deported in 2001 to Tijuana, Mexico, across the border from San Diego.
HerHis attorneys claimshe was held for 72 hours and forced by Mexican authorities police to perform oral sex.
SHe returned to the U.S. in 2004 and was arrested in Los Angeles in 2007 for trespassing and prostitution. Santander then applied for asylum protection as a transgendered person.
Oh, so we are not talking about a mere “immigrant.” I guess headlines do lie. Oh and suddenly, a previously deported illegal, who returns to the country and commits more crimes concocts an asylum claim? Are we supposed to be sympathetic to this? Are we even supposed to believe the conveniently-crafted sob story of a criminal illegal? The ACLU is defending whose “rights” now?
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If you’re Samoan, I wanna be a Klingon! ROFL!
I thought conservatives were for individual freedom.
If she wants to be a woman, why can’t she have that freedom?
Or, is it because freedom is only for those with wealth and power?
You really need to ask why a man, no matter how dresses he has in his closet, can’t be a woman?
No one is saying that this troubled dude can’t pretend he is a woman all day every day. That doesn’t mean we all have to play the game of make believe with him.
This has nothing to do with liberty. This has everything to do with common sense.
I’m skeptical of this individual’s claims, but I do have some qualms about continuing to hold Oscar after the decision has been made — just as i would oppose holding someone acquitted of a crime while the government appealed.
But in response to Cavier, let me make a point — gender/sex is a biological reality, based upon chromosomes, not a social construct like race or ethnicity.
If Oscar wants to dress up as a girl, so be it — but the reality is that Oscar is a male — just run a DNA test. And even if Oscar has his genitalia resculpted and takes lots of hormones, that won’t change XY chromosomes that make Oscar a man — regardless of the body mutilation and clothing Oscar wears.
Or put differently — you can’t change the biology of the matter.