Posted on 06/11/2018 4:20:01 PM PDT by yoe
Immigration judges generally cannot consider domestic and gang violence as grounds for asylum, U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions said Monday in a ruling that could affect large numbers of Central Americans who have increasingly turned to the United States for protection.
"Generally, claims by aliens pertaining to domestic violence or gang violence perpetrated by non-government actors will not qualify for asylum," Sessions wrote in 31-page decision. "The mere fact that a country may have problems effectively policing certain crimes — such as domestic violence or gang violence — or that certain populations are more likely to be victims of crime, cannot itself establish an asylum claim."
The widely expected move overruled a Board of Immigration Appeals decision in 2016 that gave asylum status to a woman from El Salvador who fled her husband. Sessions reopened the case for his review in March.
Sessions took aim at one of five categories to qualify for asylum - persecution for membership in a social group - calling it "inherently ambiguous." The other categories are for race, religion, nationality and political affiliation.
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Well, this will be roundly ignored by our leftist judges.
Mucho winning !!!
We need to pause asylum entirely because the US is already persecuting Christians - where will we go for asylum?
Really, it only took little Jeffery a year and three months to come up with that.
Well, this will be roundly ignored by our leftist judges.
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As I understand it, it is the “immigration judges” who make decisions on individual Amnesty and Immigration issues. These “immigration judges” are not appointed under Article III authority of the Constitution and thus are not part of the independent judiciary. Instead they serve (or at least are supposed to serve) as the Attorney General’s delegates for case that come before them. The Attorney General sets the policies that they are supposed to follow.
“Sessions excludes domestic, gang violence from asylum claims” I know that this violence has followed here to the US and asylum seekers who have become legal residents hate illegals too because they are bringing here what they ran away from.
Mr. MacGoo brilliant announcement after 15 months.
I wonder what the Dems have on this guy?
Dem operative Rosenstein is running the joint and lets this
Sad creature chat once and awhile.
That’s aside from gang members claiming asylum due to their criminal activity they then continue in the U.S.
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