Lawsuits filed to fight Trump’s new anti-LGBT asylum rule

A portion of the fence that marks the Mexico-U.S. border in Tijuana, Mexico, on Feb. 25, 2020. (Photo: Washington Blade photo by Michael K. Lavers)

Immigrant advocacy groups in a federal lawsuit they filed on Monday say the Trump administration’s “death to asylum” rule would make it nearly impossible for members of the LGBTQ community and people with HIV/AIDS to seek asylum in the U.S…