According to this article on New York Times, OPINION by Michael Posner "Last month, the…
BREAKING
Is Domestic Violence Grounds for Asylum?
According to this article on The Tennessee Tribune, by Peter White
“WASHINGTON D. C. – In June 2021 Attorney General Merrick Garland reversed a Trump era policy that routinely denied asylum to female victims of domestic violence. Unless they could show a well-grounded fear of persecution by a government actor, women were not offered protection.
Garland’s reversal of that policy has given female immigrants seeking political asylum new hope to obtain visas to stay in the U.S.
Refugees are stateless people who are afraid to return home because of their race, nationality, religion, political opinion, or membership in a particular social group.
Immigrants who have a fear of prosecution based on any of those grounds can make their case in a U.S. immigration court if they are already in the country. If they are stuck in Mexico that is much more difficult to do.”