Across Mexico, thousands of people who have fled their homes due to violence or persecution are making the treacherous journey to reach the United States border to seek safety. Among them are people who identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, and/or intersex (LGBTQI+)…

Xavier Walker’s biggest fear when he was outed as gay was that he would be killed.

“In the community, going to school, I had to be very mindful,” Walker, an asylum seeker from Jamaica living in the United States, told ABC News, reflecting on his embattled childhood…

Kataleya Nativi Baca, 29, can see the yellow grasslands of San Ysidro, California, from the crests of Tijuana’s hills. The palm trees swaying less than a mile from her shack are rooted in the place she calls el otro lado—the other side. When she goes to the beach in Tijuana, the sands of San Diego are an arm’s reach away through the narrow gaps between the 20-foot-tall steel bollards of the border wall. But for Kataleya, the United States has never felt farther away…

Advocates this week said the Trump administration’s hardline immigration policies have not stopped LGBTQ people in Central America’s Northern Triangle from traveling to the U.S. to seek asylum…