Battered Partners To Get Asylum Because Mexico Can't Protect Them

[Ayatollahgondola]

http://www.sacbee.com/2010/08/13/295...sylum-for.html


A Mexican (of course) woman gets asylum in the US because she was beaten by her partner and the mexican government cannot protect her.

What makes this case remarkable is that traditionally asylum has been given to individuals being persecuted by a government; applicants had to show they suffered persecution because of their religion, political beliefs, race, nationality or membership in a particular social group.

Cases such as L.R.'s increase the scope of who may qualify for asylum by expanding the definition of "particular social group." Women who have suffered genital mutilation, or in L.R.'s case, domestic abuse, have been recently deemed "social groups" and granted asylum.

Read more: http://www.sacbee.com/2010/08/13/295...#ixzz0wXU0TCrT