WASHINGTON, DC — A report released last week says that America’s undocumented population includes at least 267,000 immigrants who identify themselves as lesbian, gay, bisexual, or transgender (LGBT).

The report from the Center for American Progress, “Living in Dual Shadows,” is based on research at UCLA’s Williams Institute, and says that undocumented LGBT immigrants are generally male, young, and likely to be Asian.

“Because LGBT undocumented people find themselves at the intersection of two already marginalized groups—the LGBT population and the undocumented population—they are among society’s most vulnerable individuals,” the report reads. “Passing an immigration reform bill with a direct road map to earned citizenship would lift these immigrants out of the shadows, treat them with the dignity that they deserve, and enable them to become full and equal participants in our society, economy, and democracy.”

The report includes recommendations for dealing specifically with LGBT immigration concerns, including passage of an immigration reform bill that would offer LBGT immigrants a path to legalized status; modifying standards used for detention and asylum issuance to take into account specific problems faced by LBGT persons, including proper access to medications; and ensuring that LBGT immigrants are benefit from policies designed to keep families together.

The report also recommends overturning the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA). “The repeal of the Defense of Marriage Act would then allow the federal government to treat all families equally for the purpose of family-based immigration,” the report says.

Experts say that some of the strongest opposition to including LGBT immigrants in immigration reform comes from within the Hispanic community.

A coalition of Hispanic Roman Catholic and Protestant evangelical groups are urging President Obama to omit same-sex marriage issues in discussions about immigration reform, which starkly illustrates the dichotomy within a community that supports legalization for undocumented immigrants.

That opposition is in contrast to the demographics that suggest support for LGBT rights among the nation’s Hispanics and Latinos. A poll conducted by Latino Decisions and released on March 8 found that 64 percent of Latinos support including gay couples in immigration reform policies.