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six months, afraid to go out.
Collins, 20, said that her
mother died when she was a
toddler and that relatives
who raised her kicked her
out at age 14 after they
caught her wearing women’s
clothes.
Like many LGBTQ
migrants at the shelter,
Collins had relatives in the
U.S., including in Los Ange-
les. She reached them by
phone, but said they refused
to help her because they’re
conservative, Pentecostal.
“My aunt told me the
only way she could take me
is if I be a good man and
have a woman and start to
have children,” Collins said.
She refused.
“I said, ‘That’s not the life
I want,’ ” Collins recalled.
“And she said, ‘Burn in
hell.’ ”
Collins was excited at the
prospect of entering the
U.S., but worried she could
fall ill or be assaulted while
in detention.
“We don’t have much to
defend ourselves,” she said
of transgender migrants.
“We’re just looking for a
place where we can be who
we really are.”
Migrants at the shelter
from Cuba, El Salvador and
Honduras said they had
been raped in their home
countries, targeted because
they were LGBTQ.
LGBTQ asylum seekers
in Matamoros say the same.
Andrea, 24, fled El Sal-
vador in June with her long-
time girlfriend and her
girlfriend’s 9-year-old
daughter after being har-
assed by a neighbor. An-
drea, who declined to give
her full name, said that
when they told Border
Patrol agents they were a
couple, the agents laughed
and detained them sepa-
rately.
“They said that’s not
worth anything,” she said.
Her girlfriend was al-
lowed to enter the U.S. with
her daughter, and they went
to stay with her sister in
Iowa. Andrea was returned
to Mexico.
b
As for Villegas, she de-
cided to cross the bridge on
her own. On Oct. 5 she
hugged other LGBTQ mi-
grants in front of the bridge,
and they offered advice
about how to act with cus-
toms officers.
“When you talk, use a
firm voice. Don’t cry,” said
one.
Villegas nodded. As she
approached the bridge, she
pulled a pink bag behind her
labeled in Spanish, “Where
there’s a woman, there’s
illusion.”
Jodi Goodwin, her law-
yer, stopped to consult with
her. “Mayela, you know all
the consequences,” she said
in Spanish.
Villegas nodded.
“You have to be very
strong with them,” Goodwin
said.
As they approached the
center of the bridge, Good-
win paused again with Ville-
gas to pray, finishing with,
“God, hear us.”
Then Goodwin intro-
duced her client to the
half-dozen U.S. customs
officers stationed at the
center of the bridge. They
summoned a supervisor.
Moments later, they es-
corted Villegas into the U.S.
port of entry.
Villegas was interviewed
as her LGBTQ friends had
been: via telephone, by an
asylum officer. Unlike the
one who interviewed her
before, this officer was sym-
pathetic; he said he had a
gay relative.
Villegas told him about
being threatened at the tent
camp, that she had record-
ed the encounter, reported
it to the police and obtained
police reports.
The officer listened and
then made a ruling: Villegas
could stay in the U.S. while
her asylum case is pending.
She was allowed to contact
her aunt, who bought her a
bus ticket to Houston. By
the next morning, she was
on her way.
But the following day,
eight of her LGBTQ friends
tried to cross the same
bridge with Castro. They
too were interviewed by an
asylum officer. But this
officer said there were no
exceptions to Remain in
Mexico for LGBTQ mi-
grants. They said he told
them that if they felt unsafe
in Matamoros, they should
move somewhere “with
more gays,” like Mexico City.
All eight migrants were
returned to Mexico.
MAYELAVillegas consults with Dani Marrero Hi, a fellow at the Texas Civil
Rights Project, before speaking to officers on the border bridge to Brownsville.
Molly Hennessy-FiskeLos Angeles Times
[Migrants,from A4]
SANTIAGO, Chile —
President Sebastian Piñera
said Wednesday that he was
canceling two major sum-
mits so he could focus on the
nearly two weeks of nation-
wide protests in his country
over economic inequality.
The protests have left 20
dead and hundreds injured
and have damaged busi-
nesses and infrastructure in
Chile.
The decision is a major
blow to Chile’s image as a re-
gional oasis of stability and
economic development.
U.S. and Chinese negoti-
ators were hoping to finalize
a modest trade agreement
in time for President Trump
and Chinese President Xi
Jinping to sign at the Asia-
Pacific Economic Coop-
eration summit in Santiago,
which had been set for
Nov. 16 and 17. Under the ten-
tative deal, the U.S. had
agreed to suspend plans to
raise tariffs on $250 billion in
Chinese imports, and Bei-
jing had agreed to step up
purchases of American farm
products.
Piñera also said Chile
wouldn’t host the United Na-
tions global climate gather-
ing planned for Dec. 2-13 be-
cause of “the difficult cir-
cumstances that the coun-
try has seen in recent
weeks.”
Chile has seen 13 days of
massive protests to demand
greater economic equality
and better public services in
a country long seen as an
economic success story. The
demonstrations have been
accompanied by some van-
dalism and arson, which
spurred the shutdown of nu-
merous subway stations.
“This has been a very dif-
ficult decision that causes us
great pain,” Piñera said in a
televised address.
But, he added, “a presi-
dent always has to put the
needs of his compatriots
first.”
U.N. Climate Change
Executive Secretary Patri-
cia Espinosa issued a state-
ment saying “alternative
hosting options” were being
explored. And a U.N. official,
speaking on condition of
anonymity for lack of autho-
rization to comment publi-
cly, said all U.N. venues were
being considered as options.
Those would include cities
such as New York, Geneva,
Vienna and Nairobi, Kenya.
The Santiago conference
was meant to work out some
of the remaining unresolved
rules for countries on cli-
mate efforts, smoothing the
way for the bigger effort at
the 2020 summit: encourag-
ing countries to increase
their commitments to cut-
ting climate-changing emis-
sions.
Even if canceling the cli-
mate conference means
those rules don’t get written
this year, “the absence of
rules does not stop countries
from acting either alone or
together” to cut emissions,
said Nigel Purvis, a climate
and environment negotiator
in the Clinton and George W.
Bush administrations. “It
really shouldn’t slow down
climate action.”
Chile scraps 2 summits to
better deal with protests
associated press
CHILE, grappling with nearly two weeks of nationwide protests over economic
inequality, is backing out as host of two major summits, in a blow to its image.
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