AG Sessions today will publish his decision in Matter of A-B- and will hold that victims of “private harm,” including domestic violence, don’t qualify for asylum, undoing decades of work by brilliant and visionary attorneys and advocates.
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Things will get better eventually, but for now they are only getting worse. As an immigration attorney, it’s really hard to witness the gutting of protections that were so hard fought.
Setting aside all of the rhetoric for a moment, let’s remember that real lives are on the line here. Please do what you can to stand up for immigrants in the US. They need your strengths, your talents, and your voices to make sure they aren’t trampled on and forgotten.
