Fact Sheet
Published on June 5, 2025
LGBTQI+ people at risk of persecution have been effectively trapped in dangerous and life-threatening conditions due to a barrage of Trump administration executive orders. These orders are at odds with laws enacted by Congress to protect people fleeing persecution and treaties the United States has pledged to uphold. The administration’s refusal to uphold U.S. refugee resettlement and asylum laws that have provided vital lifelines for people fleeing persecution has left people targeted due to their sexual orientation or gender identity facing dire and escalating dangers.
These lifesaving protections – asylum and refugee resettlement – must be restored.
Issued jointly by the Council for Global Equality, Human Rights First, Immigration Equality, Organization for Refuge, Asylum and Migration (ORAM) and Rainbow Railroad, this fact sheet details how the Trump administration’s resettlement freeze and policies that violate U.S. asylum laws have left LGBTQI+ refugees facing dire and escalating dangers.
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