Meanwhile, a new report by Human Rights Watch says the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency is failing to protect transgender women who are detained in ICE custody as they apply for asylum in the United States. The report says transgender women have been routinely held in men’s detention facilities, where they face sexual assault and abuse from both fellow detainees and guards. Many of the transgender women interviewed for the report said they were seeking asylum in the United States in the first place because they had experienced sexual assault and transphobia in their home countries.