A San Francisco drag performer and community member who performs under the stage name Hilary Rivers was detained by ICE agents following his asylum hearing in an immigration court last month.Rivers (whose legal name is being withheld to protect his confidentiality) is a gay immigrant from Central America who has a pending asylum application based on the "traumatic and severe" persecution he experienced in his home country. He attended a scheduled asylum hearing on June 26, where the government attorney moved for his case to be dismissed, but the judge denied that motion. As he left the court, he was arrested.It is now believed that Rivers is being held in Golden State Annex, an ICE detention center outside of Bakersfield.See on InstagramRivers was detained the day after competing in the 30th annual Miss & Mr. Safe Latino 2025 Pageant, which promotes health and wellness in the LGBTQ+ Latine community.Rivers was legally admitted to the U.S. through CBP One, a Biden-era program that allowed around 900,000 migrants to cross the U.S.-Mexico border legally. Trump has since canceled the program and revoked parole status for all immigrants who entered the country through the program."Theres not a more textbook case of what asylum was created for than a case like his," Milli Atkinson, legal director at the San Francisco Immigrant Legal Defense Collaborative, said to the San Francisco Chronicle. "To have them take him away from his community during Pride Week, when hes fleeing persecution for his queer identity, and when he had just participated in that pageant is just horrific to me, is just a disgrace, and people should really be outraged and ashamed by what our government is doing."As part of President Trump's increased crackdown on immigration, ICE agents have begun detaining people when they appear in immigration courts in the Bay Area, according to the San Francisco Chronicle. Beginning in May, federal immigration authorities have started to have government attorneys in immigration hearings file a motion for a judge to dismiss the case, then arrest the immigrant and detain them once they lose asylum claim protections.See on InstagramSan Francisco Pride released a statement standing in solidarity with Rivers and encouraging community members to write letters to him."San Francisco Pride vehemently rejects the continued attacks on immigrant communities by the federal administration, SCOTUS rulings, and the splintering of our communities by ICE on the basis of violations to due process and our citys sanctuary policy," the statement reads. "San Francisco is the vibrant city we know of today because of the contributions of immigrants especially queer immigrants."