Here I was thinking this was a piece about racial and religious bias in immigration policy, and then in paragraph 4 the author throws out the LGBTQ (I prefer GQ-BLT) acronym. Two paragraphs later the author claims she is a lesbian, and later she mentions that a "young person I know" is a lesbian. (Big surprise that one lesbian would know another.) Sexual preference has nothing to do with immigration policy, so it just seems as if the author is just trying to pad her victim status and make it seem even more impressive that she makes it through each day. In this world of so many victims, it's important to stand out in your victimness.