A trio of Latinx drag performers are putting on a show Friday in Oakland in protest of ICE — and the cast includes recently detained performer Hilary Rivers, who spent three months in ICE detention.
Among the many immigrants who have been entrapped and tossed into detention by ICE agents in the Bay Area during the first 10 months of the second Trump administration, when they lawfully showed up for court hearings regarding their asylum or other legal immigration cases was Hilary Rivers. Rivers was born in El Salvador and raised in Guatemala, and as she told 48 Hills last week, she was stalked by threats of violence and actual violence ever since coming out as gay, both in her home country and in Mexico, where she fled first as an adult.
“I survived an assassination attempt and many attacks. I left for Mexico first, hoping to stay there, but violence followed me,” Rivers tells 48 Hills. “Eventually, I moved to San Francisco for work. Here, I finally felt accepted for who I am.”…