Trans Activist Who Helped Hundreds Of Immigrants And Sex Workers Get Rights Dies Of Coronavirus
“Lorena is and will always be that trans mother, who, although she lived through hard times and life was unfair to her, she always wanted better for us,” Liaam Winslet, a transgender woman from Ecuador who sought asylum in the US in 2012 with Borjas’s help, told BuzzFeed News.
A sex worker who was arrested in the middle of the night could always count on Borjas to pick up the phone, Gentili said. “Early in the morning she’d go to the courts to wait for the girls to see the judge — it makes such a diff when a judge looks at a sex worker and sees if they have someone behind her.”Borjas did most of her activism without any formal organization behind her.
“She was very interested in breaking the cycle that is arrest, jail time, immigration detention, deportation procedures,” Gentili said. “ “She knew if she was able to pay the bail, the girls wouldn’t go to jail…When you fall in the first step you just keep going down.” But all of Borjas' experience navigating social services and bureaucracy didn’t make it easy for her to get care when she developed a fever and a cough on March 14. She called Gentili that morning to cancel a meeting to work on grant applications for her community work, saying she had a fever and a cough. She didn’t want to go to the doctor, so Gentili got off the phone and called an ambulance for her.
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