Instead of reporting her husband or boyfriend to immigration. or going to her consul and having her legal system take care of this.
How can her consulate help her? You think the police from her country can come up here and arrest someone abusing her or issue a restraining order that could be enforced here? It doesn't matter what your immigration status is, everyopne here has the same basic right to legal protection. It's the job of the police and courts here to take care of criminal matters here. This judge made a potentially grave mistake. You say it's her own free will if she is abused? So do you honestly believe that the victim chooses to be abused. Obviously this woman felt threatened enough to get a restraining order to prevent this guy from hurting her? Or are you of the persuasion that this woman's face just hit this guys fist and it's her fault?