Domestic violence ruling may help thousands of immigrants get asylum

Los Angeles Times ^ | Sept 6,2014 | CINDY CARCAMO

[moonshinner_09]

Heidy fled her native Honduras for the United States on the advice of police. There was nothing they could do, they told her, to protect her from her abusive husband, a drug trafficker who spat on her, raped her

[moonshinner_09]

I would asked how much did you pay to be smuggled into America and who gave you this money, who did you pay it too and will you be making monthly payments to pay off your smuggling debt and what will happen when you cannot make a payment towards your debt ?

[iowacornman]

Women are seduced by demorats until they get in the way of the communist goals. The “under the bus” but most are so stupid they really don’t know who we fought in WW2. Ask one. Ha

[Mike Darancette]

Heidy fled her native Honduras for the United States on the advice of police. There was nothing they could do, they told her, to protect her from her abusive husband, a drug trafficker who spat on her, raped her...

In a year or so Heidy will request that her husband join her here in America, for the children. That request will be granted.

[cripplecreek]

I hate to tell Obama but domestic violence is pretty much a standard part of “latin American” culture.

My first love was the daughter of a Mexican immigrant. She was thrilled that her daughter was seeing a gringo.

[LegendHasIt]

Perhaps muslim countries are not the only ones where spousal abuse, rape and murder are legal?

[jocon307]

I’m sorry I don’t believe anything these people say. And yeah, I know cops can be pretty useless, and maybe they said to her: we can’t help you, but I’m almost 100% sure they didn’t say: you know what you should do, you should illegally enter the USA a country hundred of miles from here, yeah, that’s the ticket.

Sorry, that BS and I’m not buying it.

[leapfrog0202]

I hate to be awful, but I think I’d demand proof. Police reports, photos, etc. This is just another way of providing amnesty.

[Secret Agent Man]

they don’ t need to come to another country to escape domestic violence.

how many american women leave the usa b/c of this?

[no-to-illegals]

Change her name to America and everything applies as same. Know what the decision is regarding America. America has been told to find another home and is being removed from the nation of hers for over two hundred and fifty years. America, the Beautiful, has been banned to never again be sang in song. Loved you America and could you take those of us that love you with you, please.

[berdie]

None..of course. There is no domestic violence in the US. /s

[MeshugeMikey]

” half of the estimated 300 women interviewed by pro bono attorneys claim they are victims of domestic violence...”

hey,,,,give em their Obama Phones....and Move On...

[FlingWingFlyer]

This is BULL****!!! Domestic violence is the problem of the governments where these freeloaders live. It is not the problem of the U.S. taxpayers. This is unconstitutional!

[Kozak]

So what, we take in every battered and abused person in the entire world who can, walk, fly crawl swim here?

[Pontiac]

"He was going to kill me at any moment," she told a U.S. immigration judge this week. Heidy, whose surname is being withheld because she is a rape victim, is the first test case since the highest immigration court in the United States issued a ruling last week recognizing domestic violence as a basis for granting asylum.

I guess the immigration courts are allowed to ignore the constitution whenever they like.

The Congress shall have Power…To establish an uniform Rule of Naturalization, and uniform Laws on the subject of Bankruptcies throughout the United States;

And in reality since the constitution is silent on the subject of immigration that power is truly a power reserved to the states by the tenth amendment.

[Kickass Conservative]

Just so I understand this new issue.

A woman living in the United States is the victim of domestic violence. She decides that she must leave the United States because of what happened and moves to another Country that she cannot Legally enter.

The “welcoming” Country gives her “asylum” because she married a Gringo loser.

Yep, makes perfect sense.