Trans woman says ICE agents released her after confirming she’d had bottom surgery

A transgender woman in New York says Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents wrongly arrested her at an airport and held her in a men’s detention facility. She says she was released after government officials were satisfied with an inspection of her bottom surgery.Clara Tan said in a Facebook post on Tuesday that four men identifying themselves as ICE agents approached her as she headed toward the taxi stand after landing at Frederick Douglass Greater Rochester International Airport around midnight.“As I was exiting the terminal and heading towards the taxi stand, I was accosted by four men who called me by my name. I turned, and did not recognize a single one of them. The tallest, a pipe-cleaner looking fellow with a mildly Snidely Whiplash-esque mustache and some of the deadest eyes I’d ever seen, tells me ‘We’re with ICE and we have a warrant for your arrest,’” Tan posted.Related: Queer trans ICE protester recounts pepper-spraying, jailing by agents“Mind you, it’s 12 am, I’ve just been on a cumulative 8 hours of flight and I just want to go home and sleep. So I do what any red blooded American would and say, ‘Can I see the warrant? Do you have any identification?’ Pipely Whiplash says, ‘We can show it to you in the car, just come peacefully.’ Meanwhile, one of his compatriots flashes a wallet, far too quick for anybody to actually confirm its veracity, and they all converge on me.”Tan said she tried to make a phone call, but the agents tackled her to the asphalt, threw her into the back of a black SUV and drove her to a detention facility in Batavia at speeds she estimated reached 90 mph.According to Tan, ICE declared she was in the U.S. illegally and not studying at the American Musical and Dramatic Academy, as her visa required. She disputed parts of the agency’s account, including its claim that she entered the country on an unknown date through an unknown entry point. Tan said she had records showing that she flew into New Y