Southern Poverty Law Center Pressured Biden Admin To Release Convicted Trans Sex Offender

The Southern Poverty Law Center, a left-wing organization that has found itself as the subject of a massive federal indictment, previously urged the Biden administration to release a transgender immigrant convicted of sexually assaulting a child, according to documents obtained by the Oversight Project.

In a 2021 email obtained via a Freedom of Information Act request, a then-SPLC attorney asked Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to “release” the detainee “as soon as possible” due to the transgender-identifying woman’s “hypertension and severe anxiety,” citing a COVID-era lawsuit that resulted in the release of some immigrants with certain comorbidities.

The SPLC attorney argued that the individual, a female who identifies as a male, “does not fall within the administration’s public safety enforcement priority” and must be released due to trauma she had experienced related to her transgender identity.

The immigrant, who held a Green Card, had previously served more than eight years behind bars for sexually assaulting a 14-year-old girl. At the time, the transgender-identifying woman was 19-years-old. They had a two-year online relationship before the woman drove to meet the minor victim in 2011.

At the time, the Filipino national learned that the girl had lied about her age and revealed that she was just 14 years old. Still, the transgender-identifying woman proceeded with the meet-up where “they engaged in sexual conduct,” the email stated.