'This is a moment to resist': SF rallies for drag queen detained by ICE

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'This is a moment to resist': SF rallies for drag queen detained by ICE
By Olivia Hebert,
News Reporter
July 3, 2025
Federal agents patrol the halls of immigration court at the Jacob K. Javitz Federal Building on June 18, 2025 in New York City.
Federal agents patrol the halls of immigration court at the Jacob K. Javitz Federal Building on June 18, 2025 in New York City.

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A local drag queen known as Hilary Rivers was detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement last week, sparking an outcry among San Francisco’s immigrant and LGBTQ+ communities.

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Rivers was detained on June 26 by ICE after a scheduled court appointment, according to SF Pride. As of June 27, he was transferred from the San Francisco ICE Field Office to the Golden State annex in McFarland, California. Rivers’ legal team has since been in contact with him and met with him over the weekend.

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He reportedly came to the United States seeking political asylum after enduring “severe” persecution in his home country as a gay man, according to the San Francisco Chronicle.

The detention came just days before San Francisco’s 2025 Pride Parade on Sunday, when thousands marched in celebration and protest amid escalating federal crackdowns on LGBTQ+ and immigrant communities. For organizers and community members alike, the joy of the celebration juxtaposed with the heartbreak of Rivers’ detention has been gutting.

“I mean, it’s heartbreaking, right?” said Maceo Persson, a board member with SF Pride. “Like, it’s heartbreaking that we work so hard to try to put together a space of joy and celebration of each other, for community, and at the same time is happening, right? Someone’s getting detained and having their freedom taken away from them.

More noise to be ignored.

Most Americans support civil rights for everyone living here. Only bigots oppose these rights. Youre extremely sheltered and too mentally stunted to comprehend the terror of trumps ice raids

Who the fuck give a rats ass about drag queens?

Says the idiot supporting christian terrorism on here.

Triggered bitch

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Drag performer detained by ICE in San Francisco at asylum hearing
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ICE took a drag performer into custody on June 25.

The performer, Hilary Rivers, has a pending asylum application based on persecution in Central America.

The Trump administration have been filing motions for judges to dismiss asylum cases so people lose their protections.

Trump is filing motions to gave judges dismiss asylum cases for the most vulnerable. And this is how you react. Vile piece of shit

Just say you agree with the regime violating people's rights and dismissing asylum hearings. No need to be a weird ass troll

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Trump admin tells immigration judges to dismiss cases in tactic to speed up arrests
The judges, who work for the executive branch, have been instructed to grant dismissals quickly; ICE has been arresting people after their cases are dismissed.

Work on your English language comprehension.

A judge cant legally dismiss an asylum case without a valid legal reason. Its just more abuses of power at the cost of societys most vulnerable.

But right wing extremists are gloating

Icey even your support for drag queens isnt genuine- you just want to pimp them out. You want to expand your business and be able to service both gay and straight customers.

===> "MAGAs worst nightmare coming true"
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More like MAGAs wet dream. Just imagine what most of the rest of the country would be thinking if a bunch of drag queens, other gender confused types and various other assorted deviants converged on SF and came out in numbers to protest. The pictures alone would be gold. 😆
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Sadly it doesn't look like it's going to happen. I saw the pictures from the "protest" in front of the ICE detention center and it was a scraggly bunch indeed.

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Solidarity protests and aid are happening throughout California

The bigoted baghdad bob is wrong as usual

^Cool. Can't wait to see the pics. 😆

^ Indeed those ads will write themselves Puddy. We could us some new pics for the JD Vance ads in 4 years, especially if Newsom is running.
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Hea a drag queen not a trans woman.

There are protests every day against the regime.

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Your bigoted asses are out of touch with reality.

===> "Hea a drag queen not a trans woman."
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What's the difference? They're both dudes mimicking women. To the general public there's no discernible distinction. 😉

^i think its like straight guys who do gay porn. Some of the drag guys are actually trans, while others are trans for pay

Youre delusional. There are protests for civil rights and against the regime every day. States are standing up to Trump.

If everyone isn't free. No one is free.

The two of you are representative of right wing extremists. Not the general public

Where are all these protests happening in support of the Guatemalan dude in a dress? I keep searching, but all I get is a couple of small rags in SF showing pics of a scraggly group in front of the ICE detention center.
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I am very curious now. Pics would be great.

===> "There are protests for civil rights and against the regime every day. States are standing up to Trump. If everyone isn't free. No one is free."
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That's equal parts melodramatic and plain stupid. We live in the freest country in the world. Unlike so many other places, we don't have storm troopers snatching people in the night for saying things against the government, or confiscatory taxes in a society trying to make people utterly dependent on the government, or thought police censoring what we say online (which has even recently come to Europe), or...the list is endless.
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But I will admit that it sucks right now to be an undocumented immigrant in the U.S. Frankly this approach is one I don't agree with. But OTOH, it's hard to argue that just being homosexual is enough to warrant asylum here in the U.S. If the bar was that low, we'd be flooded with homosexuals from countless countries around the world that are still hostile to alternative lifestyles.

If you total up all the protest attendees, you would have .001% of the people in the country protesting and .0001% of people living here legally protesting. Civil rights is a meaningless phrase in the world of today.

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Why do we accept asylum seekers? We should ask one question, will letting someone immigrate benefit American citizens? That's how other countries decide who to let in.

Thats not how asylum works.

Icey, homosexuality isn't even illegal in Guatemala, which makes this a bullshit asylum application.

^how easy is it to lie on these asylum applications? Do they have to be persecuted by the home countrys government or can they say, for example, my spouse or parents are abusive and violent so i need asylum.

There should be no ability whatsoever to come here and claim asylum for any reason.

Baghdad Bob its legal to have gay sex in Guatemala. Gay rights arent considered rights though. So they have no legal protections.

^ Your personal experience in Guatemala? Use we and not they when you come out.

Our asylum laws don't exist to counterbalance social injustices in different countries. They're intended to provide a refuge for those facing imminent real harm. One fag requesting asylum from a country that doesn't even criminalize homosexuality is unlikely to meet that standard.
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Indeed, not surprisingly, he lost his case. Then he was sent home. That's that.

He didnt lose his case. The case was dismissed, never heard, at the govs behest and he was arrested and held by ICE.

^ Wah little girl. Go get fucked by the drag queen and stfu.