Sessions's Bleak Asylum Ruling Sends Us Back Decades

Authors

Sarah R. Sherman-Stokes, Boston University School of LawFollow

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Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

7-18-2018

Publisher

Cognoscenti

Language

en-US

Abstract

“Sandra,” a mother from Guatemala was physically and sexually abused by her husband for years. He punched her in the face, broke her tooth and raped her. Afterward, he threatened to kill her and locked her in his house for days. “Eva,” a young woman from Russia, was brutally beaten and raped by white supremacist skinheads because she was an ethnic minority. “Daniela,” at 5, witnessed the gruesome murder of her mother by gang members in El Salvador, after her mother reported gang activity to the police.

Sandra, Eva and Daniela all fled for their lives and sought asylum in the United States. Attorney General Jeff Sessions’s decision on June 11 directly threatens the lives of those like them.

Recommended Citation

Sarah R. Sherman-Stokes, Sessions's Bleak Asylum Ruling Sends Us Back Decades , in Cognoscenti (2018).
Available at: https://scholarship.law.bu.edu/shorter_works/115

Publisher URL

https://www.wbur.org/cognoscenti/2018/06/21/sessionss-asylum-sarah-sherman-stokes-j-wesley-boyd