Gay Chechens Fleeing Russia Denied US Visa- Austin Wallace

As many as 40 Chechens have applied for US visas while attempting to flee the country. All of them haven been denied, and only two have been able to secure visas to safe countries at all. The ruler of Chechnya is Ramzan Kadyrov, a man who only answers to Putin, and rules semi-atonimously over his provence with an iron fist. Recently a Russian newspaper broke the story about the secret prisons within Chechnya, torturing and even killing gay men. Kadyrov of course denies any claims of these torture camps because, "There are no such people (gay men) in Chechnya."

This is a horrific and continuously evolving tragedy happening in Russia, and I have been following the situation quite closely. There are secret organizations, such as the Rainbow Railroad, which are working to help people escape persecution in the country, but when no other countries are willing to take them, they might as well be dead anyway. America, I think, has a moral responsibility to help these people. The fact that this administration continues to do nothing shows further evidence of their Illegal collusion with Russia.

This can be synthesized to the fugitive slave act, when runaway slaves who fled to the north, where slavery was illegal, were hunted down and forced to return to the south.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/chechnya-gay-men-us-visas-denied-trump-government-crackdown-flee-536-a7741901.html?amp