Posted on 08/28/2014 7:50:36 AM PDT by Rusty0604
HOUSTON, Texas -- Foreign individuals may now seek asylum in the U.S. due to domestic abuse in their home countries. On Tuesday a federal immigration board ruled that a married Guatemalan woman, fleeing a violent husband back home, could obtain political asylum.
The ruling is significant, as the Board of Immigration Appeals oversees the immigration courts of President Obama's Department of Justice.
The board reportedly acknowledged a culture of violence in Guatemala, which cases its domestic abuse victims to be in a "particular social group." Such jargon implies "a crucial qualification for asylum eligibility," according to the Gate.
It is easy to imagine that once word f the ruling spreads to Central America, thousands of women could come to the U.S. seeking asylum.
Breitbart Texas Contributing Editor and border security expert Sylvia Longmire said the "highly controversial ruling" could "open the immigration floodgates once again as word spreads about the change to asylum procedures. Although this change currently only applies to Guatemala, it's probably only a matter of time before these protections start extending to women from Honduras, El Salvador, and possibly Mexico."
"Many Americans don't understand the power of word-of-mouth in Latin America; it's like gossip in a small American town times ten. Word about anything, especially friends or family members going though the northbound migration or southbound deportation process, spreads very quickly," Longmire said.
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Might be a Big Win for Big Pharma!
Sales of Xanax and Zolaft etc should go thru the roof - not just for the psychologically affected immigrants
I think I’m going to need some too
Essentially, the U.S. Government is encouraging and subsidizing Central American wife beating. The Law of Unintended Consequences.
Define: Abuse
And hang nails...................
What about ingrown toenails?
What else... Asylum for bumpy roads. Asylum for walking to school uphill both ways in the snow.
how do we know these women (or men as the case may be) are not kidnapping their own children? In America spousal abuse does not automatically mean parental rights to the children are severed.
How do we know that the “children” coming in with them aren’t in fact their “abusive” spouse? In another article, men in their thirties were enrolling in school because the gov’t says the schools can’t verify their age.
I read about that. If the 30somethings were American, they’d probably be jailed for perversion or something. But admins are told to ignore age in hispanic ‘students’. It makes no sense.
That is not what the law says; I miss the rule of law. Now the wife can get “asylum” from the danger of her husband, and the husband can get legal status to reunite the family. Obama disgusts me.
The most popular name for newborn males is Mohammad (or some variation) ...in London...and in Oslo.
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