A transgender Mexican woman seeking asylum in the United States has another chance after being turned down twice by a Stewart Immigration Court judge in Lumpkin.

Job “Estrella” Antonio-Sanchez applied for asylum in 2012 after she was detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement, saying she’d been raped and abused from a young age in Mexico because of her transgender status. Last year Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton took her case pro bono.

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