In an article from 'The Miami Herald' a Jamaican immigrant tells her side of the story on the difficulties she has faced being Jamaican and gay. Her deportation to Jamaica for drug-related offenses has been temporarily halted due to the fact that the homophobic climate that currently pervades in Jamaica is seen as detrimental to the defendant.
''The general atmosphere in Jamaica is a feeling of no tolerance towards homosexuals in general, and as such, . . . the respondent's life is definitely at risk,'' Immigration Judge Irma Lopez-Defillo said, according to court documents.
The person in question, however, may still be be deported to another country,
To read the full article in 'The Miami Herald' click here.
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