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announces sweeping change to asylum protections
Tuesday, June 12, 2018 –
6:40am
US attorney general Jeff Sessions has announced the removal of
asylum protection for victims of domestic violence and gang
violence seeking shelter in the United States.
The move could have “wide-ranging impacts on immigrants seeking
refuge in the United States from violence in their home countries,”
CNBC says.
“The mere fact that a country may have problems effectively
policing certain crimes – such as domestic violence or gang
violence – or that certain populations are more likely to be
victims of crime, cannot itself establish an asylum claim,”
Sessions said.
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Sessions’ ruling has vacated a 2016 decision by the Justice
Department’s Board of Immigration Appeals, which ruled said that a
woman who was raped and beaten by her former husband in El Salvador
was eligible for protection in the US.
“The ruling is the latest instance of Sessions taking full
advantage of his authority over the immigration courts,” CNN says, adding that Sessions is effectively a
“one-person Supreme Court” within that system.
The Washington Post reports that Sessions
made the ruling in a bid to “help reduce the growing backlog of
700,000 [immigration] court cases”, a number that has more than
tripled since 2009.
“We have not acted hastily, but carefully. In my judgment, this
is a correct interpretation of the law,” Sessions said in a
statement.
House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi said that the Trump
administration has “just condemned countless vulnerable, innocent
women to a lifetime of violence and even death, just to score
political points with their base. This act of staggering cruelty
insults our nation’s values.”
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