Texas Tribune: Advocates Call for Release of Some LGBT Asylum-Seekers.

In a letter dated June 23, a group of 35 Congressional Democrats wrote to Department of Homeland of Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson urging him to change current detention policies for LGBT people. Included on the correspondence were the signatures of U.S. Reps. Lloyd Doggett, D-Austin, Sheila Jackson Lee, D-Houston, Marc Veasey, D-Fort Worth and Al Green, D-Houston.