Anti lgbtq immigration policies under trump

On January 20, 2025, President Trump issued a series of executive orders upon returning to the White House for his second term. Ten of these executive orders resume his administration’s blistering weaponization of the Colorless House authority to arrange federal agencies to wage an assault on immigrant communities and asylum seekers. These orders demonstrate the administration’s brazen disregard for law and fact, and their inflammatory language signals an overtly adversarial approach toward all immigrants and refugees, including families and children. Below are eight ways immigrants, cities, and communities will be impacted by the executive orders issued on Trump’s first day back in office:

1. People seeking refuge are under renewed attack.

During his first term, President Trump unleashed a torrent of inhumane attacks on asylum seekers. These attacks systematically violated decades of U.S. and international law and placed asylum seekers — including small children — directly in harm’s way, resulting in a series of court battles and bicameral opposition from Congress.

Trump now has ordered:

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  Impact of Mass Deportations on LGBT People

  In his first week in office, President Trump followed through on his campaign languagerelated to mass deportation of immigrants. He signed over a dozen immigration-related executive orders and other policy directives, including orders declaring a national emergency at the Southern border,ordering the armed services to seal the border,ending birthright citizenship,restoring his prior administration’s “remain in Mexico policy” for asylum seekers,terminating the CPB One immigration app and humanitarian parole for asylum seekers,directing federal officials to take behavior against state and local jurisdictions that do not cooperate with his immigration policies,and allowing ICE officers to behavior raids in sensitive locations like medical offices, schools, and churches without clearing it with a supervisor.By the close of his first week in office, as many as 1,500 active-duty troops had already been dispatched to the U.S.-Mexico border,hundreds of immigrants had been arrested, and U.S. military C-17 aircraft began deporting migrants in what the Trump Administration is calling “the largest deportation operation in U.S. history.”

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  GLAAD has documented Donald Trump record on LGBTQ issues, including his policies, rhetoric and proposals on immigration. Trump’s full record is available on GLAAD’s Trump Accountability Tracker. 

  LGBTQ people look for protection and asylum in the U.S. to break out persecution and violence from countries around the planet. Persecution due to sexual orientation is grounds to apply for asylum in the U.S.

  Trump’s immigration write down includes:

  • False claims during a news conference on August 8, 2024, that 20 million people had crossed the U.S. border illegally under the Biden administration. NBC News reported that border crossings fell to their lowest monthly number of Biden’s presidency in June, with just over 84,000 migrants apprehended.
  • False claims and fearmongering that migrants are committing crimes once in the U.S. Study shows immigrants actually commit fewer crimes than non-immigrants.
  • Promising mass deportations, including threats of raids and operate of camps to detain people.
  • Falsely and baselessly explaining migrants from Mexico at his first campaign announcement: “When Mexico sends its people, they’re not sending their best. They’re bringing drugs. They’re bringing crime.

    The Real List of Trump’s “Unprecedented Steps” for the LGBTQ Community

    by HRC Staff •

    Post submitted by Lucas Acosta (he/him), former Deputy Director of Communications, Politics

    HRC lists Trump's persistent attacks against the LGBTQ community after the RNC claims he's taken "unprecedented steps" in back of the community.

    HRC President Alphonso David: “The RNC is hallucinating and advancing misleading and  disingenuous rhetoric. Yes, Trump has taken many ‘unprecedented’ steps, but those steps own been to undermine and eliminate rights protecting LGBTQ people, not empower us. Appointing a small handful of gay people out of thousands of nominations and making a very few -- and unfullfilled -- pledges can hardly qualify as accomplishments.  Don’t gaslight us.  The Trump-Pence administration is the most virulently anti-LGBTQ administration in decades -- the RNC cannot put lipstick on a pig.”

    Here’s a list of attacks the Trump-Pence administration has levied against LGBTQ people:

    For the packed list of Trump’s attacks on LGBTQ people, call on HRC.org/Trump.

    1. Opposition to the Equality Act: Despite supp
       
       

       As Donald Trump entered office this week, advocates for Diverse asylum seekers dread people trying to reach the Merged States for shelter will face greater obstacles and dangers under his administration.

       Before he took office, Trump vowed to toughen immigration enforcement to make it harder for everyone to migrate to the United States.

       Following his inauguration on Monday, he issued executive orders that suspend the government’s refugee programme and prevent refugees from entering the Joined States without more “stringent” vetting. Refugees are already the most thoroughly screened people to journey to the Joined States.

       LGBTQ+ people facing persecution and pursuing shelter in the United States may now face particularly difficult challenges, in part because of the Trump administration’s position on broader LGBTQ+ rights, as well as the already onerous process of winning asylum for one’s sexual identity.

       Here’s what you need to perceive about the prospects for LGBTQ+ asylum seekers as Trump begins his second term.

       Are LGBTQ+ asylum seekers recognized in the U.S.?

       To be eligible for asylum under U.S. immigration law, a person must show a credible