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DHS TO CONSIDER ASYLUM PETITIONS BY BATTERED WOMEN

By Greg Siskind

The New York Times reports on an important change in the country's asylum policies: Moving cautiously, the Department of Homeland Security did not immediately recommend asylum for the Mexican woman, who is identified in the court papers only by her initials as L.R. But the department, in the unusual submission written by senior government lawyers, concluded in plain terms that ?it is possible? that the Mexican woman ?and other applicants who have experienced domestic violence could qualify for asylum.? As recently as last year, Bush administration lawyers had argued in the same case that in spite of her husband?s brutality,...

Full post as published by Greg Siskind's Blog on July 16, 2009 (boomark / email).