# Twice-deported United cockpit suspect granted asylum after transgender persecution claim: DHS

- URL: https://talkfuse.com/story/twice-deported-united-cockpit-suspect-granted-asylum-after-transgender-persecution-claim-dhs/
- Published: 2026-11-12T02:03:56+00:00
- Updated: 2026-11-12T02:21:06+00:00
- Original publisher: Fox News (publisher lean: Right)
- Original article: https://www.foxnews.com/politics/twice-deported-united-cockpit-suspect-granted-asylum-transgender-persecution-claim-dhs
- Topics: World

## Key points

- DHS says a twice-deported Honduran man was later granted asylum.
- He cited fear of persecution in Honduras because he is transgender.
- He is now held over an alleged cockpit breach on a United flight.

## Summary

A Honduran man accused of trying to enter the cockpit of a United Airlines flight after allegedly claiming he had a bomb was granted asylum in the US, according to the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). The case has drawn attention to how immigration authorities assess asylum claims and how people released during removal proceedings are handled.

DHS says Rony Alexander Gomez-Alberto, 34, told authorities he feared being killed in Honduras because he is transgender. He was deported after illegal entries in 2011 and 2014, then arrested near San Ysidro, California, in 2019; an immigration judge later granted his asylum claim. After the alleged incident on Flight 2174, which landed in New Orleans on 9 November, he was arrested and held without bond on several charges. DHS says he was released by ICE in January 2020 under an immigration judge’s order while removal proceedings were pending.

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