Mon May 15, 2023 – 1:37 pm EDT
WASHINGTON, D.C. (LifeSiteNews) – The U.S. Supreme Court has unanimously sided with a “transgender” Guatemalan immigrant in a deportation case, and while the validity of his so-called “gender identity” was not at issue in the case itself, the court’s two most conservative jurists opted to register their conclusion in a separate opinion, while the three most recent Republican appointees signed onto a majority opinion that recognized the biologically male petitioner with female pronouns.
Santos-Zacaria AKA Santos-Sacarias v. Garland concerns Leon “Estrella” Santos-Zacaria, a man who identifies as a woman and is contesting deportation back to his native Guatemala on the grounds that he has been subjected to violence including rape as well as death threats in his homeland due to his LGBT status and would face similar adversity if forced to return.
First deported in 2008, Santos-Zacaria illegally entered the United States again in 2018 but was apprehended. Challenging removal by citing likelihood of persecution, he got the case before a three-judge panel of the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals, which rejected his argument that the Board of Immigration Appeals had overstepped its authority by making fact-finding conclusions
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