By Debbie Schlussel

Barack Obama and company have a new priority in their endless push to open America’s floodgates wide to every available illegal alien: they’ve decided that transvestite hookers in Latin America are “persecuted minorities” and deserve asylum in America without challenge. I can’t wait until Islamic terrorists dress up in bras and panties to get in. Alhamdulilah [praise allah]!

But don’t worry. The transvestites and gays getting into America aren’t the ones truly persecuted–by Muslim countries, where they are regularly executed. Nope, again, these are from Latin America, where gays and trannies are welcomed.

And in connection with this absurd new immigration policy, the Obama minions have come up with a new “civil rights” term: “sexual minorities.” Hmmm . . . aren’t pedophiles and those who participate in bestiality (as Whoopi Goldberg recently bragged about doing with her cat), “sexual minorities.” They are “persecuted,” too. So, let’s give them asylum in America! Why not? Everyone else is getting it.

So, since being a transvestite hooker is now an instant golden ticket into America, maybe we should change our name to the United States of RuPaulestine. In fact, even though Honduras, for example, recently passed tough new laws against any speech based on “sexual orientation or gender identity” (which, in the U.S., would violate the First Amendment), Obama is giving Honduran gays and trannies asylum. Why? They aren’t in danger there. They are celebrated and protected.

Luis Javier Tejada is an example of why, in many ways, there has never been a better time to be gay in Honduras. . . . He [will seek asylum in the U.S. and] will rely on something most aspiring immigrants here can’t: membership in a class the U.S. State Department recognizes as under attack. “Social discrimination against LGBT persons was widespread” in Honduras, reads the department’s 2013 international human-rights report, using an acronym for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people. The report notes that “NGOs reported 24 violent deaths of LGBT individuals” through last September.

Such official assessments have fueled a surge of successful asylum petitions from gays and lesbians in the Americas. Arguing that they suffer persecution because of their sexual orientation, hundreds if not thousands have managed to find safe haven, and a potential path to U.S. citizenship, in recent years. Fellow Latin Americans lodging asylum claims based on generalized violence, meanwhile, are routinely denied. . . .

Among the biggest new beneficiaries, based on a reading of federal data and interviews with immigration experts, are sexual minorities. Last year, just one New York-based advocacy group, Immigration Equality, helped put 279 LGBT foreigners into the asylum process, a 250% increase from 2009. Altogether, the group has helped 1,130 people seek asylum in the past decade, with 421 cases still pending. Their success rate for closed cases: 98%, roughly quadruple the batting average of the typical asylum-seeker. . . . Activists credit the Obama White House with nudging the issue higher on the agenda.

LGBT migrants have become so commonplace among those apprehended along the border that Homeland Security has opened two detention centers for them since 2011—one in Pearsall, Texas, the other in Santa Ana, California. That same year the administration also issued a memorandum stating that community ties—including for the first time, same-sex relationships—could help a detained migrant win release pending a court appearance.

The administration has also issued a series of orders and memos spelling out how LGBT asylum cases should be handled. A 65-page publication, “Guidance For Adjudicating Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Intersex (LGBTI) Refugee and Asylum Claims” prepared for USCIS asylum officers in December 2011, notes that “the fact that LGBTI organizations are permitted to hold a parade once a year…does not mean LGBTI people are free from ongoing violence and harm in that country.” The training material, which the Immigration Equality activist group says it helped prepare, explains that the guidelines for gay asylum applicants are the same as for any other asylum-seeker. . . . The guide notes that LGBTI individuals who come to the U.S. for work or school, and weren’t fleeing violence, might “come out” after arriving. Their asylum claim would be based on a fear of persecution if they returned home. . . .

Carlos Fernando Vallejo [is] a transgender prostitute-turned-activist from San Pedro Sula known as Fernanda . . . . In January 2013, Ms. Vallejo said a prostitute with the street name Nahomi came at her with a knife. “I defended myself and Nahomi fell to the street,” Ms. Vallejo testified in a statement. “Later Nahomi sent some gang guys to threaten me.” She later claimed she was insulted and beaten by gang members who told her they wanted to “get rid of maricones,” a vulgar word for homosexuals. Ms. Vallejo entered the U.S. illegally through Mexico and is now seeking asylum.

René Perdomo, a Honduran gay activist who arrived in New York for a United Nations conference in April 2011 and decided to bid for asylum after overstaying his tourist visa, received the benefit of the doubt. “It was a really easy process,” recalls the 29-year-old, whose evidence packet included affidavits from three Hondurans vouching for his character and citing his work with a transgender collective.

Mr. Perdomo also presented a résumé, and a stack of newspaper clippings chronicling attacks on gays in his homeland. He said his own life was endangered, and that gangs and police had threatened him, but wasn’t required to show any proof.

“I got my asylum on 16 April [2013]. The whole thing took eight months,” he says. He lives today in Roseburg, Ore., where he works at a Mexican restaurant. He says he plans to apply for U.S. citizenship as soon as he is eligible, in about four years.

If you are a Christian Arab seeking asylum in America from Muslim peresecution in the Middle East–and I know several people who fit this description–you must meet very stringent requirements to prove you’ve faced actual persecution. And, even then, it is often not enough. ICE lawyers fight to get your deported, and you must take your chances that an immigration judge is going to believe you, despite a gazillion accounts in the news of Muslim violence against Christians all over the Mid-East and Africa (and elsewhere).

But if you are a transgendered hooker, it’s an instant, “Welcome!”

Because, hey, we need more members of a “transgender collective” in America, so that they, too, can work at Mexican restaurants in Roseburg, Oregon.

Like I said, I cannot wait until Islamic terrorists use this tranny hooker or gay activist thing to get into America. And I promise you, it’ll happen.

Question is, how does the U.S. government know if they are telling the truth? Do they “try” them out?

Nope, they just take their word for it. And–Bingo!–they’re in.

Welcome to America, honey.