'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.

What Alcatraz is really like in 2025

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.

How are detained illegal drag queens in San Francisco--a lib double orgasm but groups that don't draw special empathy from the average American, in the bluest state in America--some kind of MAGA nightmare?

If you believe that, you're more retarded than even I thought.

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

^ Wrong. Cracking down on illegal immigration is popular, drag queens are not. Get with 2025, sugar tits.

Who the fuck give a rats ass about drag queens?

^ Icey does.

Says the idiot supporting christian terrorism on here.

Triggered bitch

' 💃💃💃 👄👄👄👄👄👄👄
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Drag Queens Just Like To Have Fun!

^^ Says the retard who thinks America is going to rally to illegal drag queens.
All that pot has stunted whatever's left of your little pea brain.
And there's nothing you can do about it.
LOSER!

Drag performer detained by ICE in San Francisco at asylum hearing
google.com

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.

^ Maybe he'll be your new bottom bitch. Will you unalive yourself when he leaves you for a low level pot dealer?

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

^ Someone who brags about exploiting, drugging, and lying to women, and stealing, is a piece of shit's piece of shit. Someone who hates America like you has no standing to talk about what's good for us.
I'm gonna love watching you impotently piss and moan for three and a half more years.

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

nbcnews.com
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.

"The judges, who work for the executive branch"
I knew you were retarded, but damn, you raise the bar every day.
Illegal? Leave. Don't be here.
Asylum laws say go to the nearest safe country. There is no right to be in America.

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

^ How about that 90% of these cases are lies promoted by the government?
Three and a half more years. Keep squealing!