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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Insane.
Here they come!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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We are doomed.
I’m sure the list to qualify for asylum will be growing like the weeds in my garden.
By the end of the year it will rival the length of the Obamacare Bill that Pelosi said we have to pass so we know what’s in it.
It’s not like we never have domestic violence over here. How many stories have I seen where a spouse can’t get help from the police over here?
This is the biggest load of rubbish the commie libs have ever come up with. A drunken Hispanic guy beats up his wife in Guatemala so she and her “unaccompanied minors” are allowed to seek “asylum” in the United States. Don’t they have any laws in Guatemala? Why isn’t the “civil rights” crowd and the UN down their looking into all of the “civil rights” violations? Why isn’t Amnesty International down there helping these people out? Why are they all coming here?
Those MS13 gang wives are brutal.
Obama has 2 more years to find ways to make the whole World US citizens ,with or without their permission
ok that means there will be no women left in the Muslim world—get ready for Burkha Betty and as well as Cryin Carmen
I was using VAWA years ago when it was first passed to get around immigration law. Not a lot since I don’t or at least didn’t then live in a community full of immigrants, legal or otherwise. Actually, I can hear up to six languages when I go to the grocery store and they all aren’t stocking shelves.
The mothers will report spousal abuse then request their husbands get asylum 6 months later. As if those cultures weren’t crappy enough now they will be a nation of wife beaters.
Maria is married to Diego and her brother Juan is married to Diego’s sister Lupe.
Maria and Lupe receive asylum from the US and family reunification brings their brothers to the front of the line. Meanwhile, 17 y.o Diego Jr is with his mother and has learned how men should act from his father and 16 y.o. Maria Jr has a little American citizen on the way.
I get so frustrated seeing all this happen. All I can do is contact my representatives and complain in this forum; I wish I could do more.
Realistic scenario.
Coming soon:
Asylum for
Being robbed or burglarized or having your car stolen.
Unfairly getting a parking or moving violation.
Having your candidate lose an election.
Hangnails or other significant medical problems.
oh great
Think of all the new jobs created for bilingual councilors
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