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This 3 page paper summarizes a NEw York Times article about granting asylum to immigrants who face extreme domestic abuse. Quotes and examples given. Bibliography lists 1 source.
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proposal that would grant extreme abuse cases the same rights and privileges as those who seek political and religious asylum in the United States. This would seem like a win-win
situation, but as this article points out, it is not as cut and dried as that. For many years other countries have recognized domestic abuse of women as a viable
form of persecution and have granted asylum to women from other countries. Basically stated, what this proposal hopes to do is to offer asylum to women from other countries whose
pleas for help have gone unheard and unanswered. Many women seek asylum in the United States, and have for years, braving the immigration laws as opposed to returning to their
lives of persecution in their home countries. Several personal cases are included in the proposal. One example is Zaide Cinto who came to the United States from Mexico. She
is unable to see or hear well because of the years of beating that she endured from her husband(Swarns 2004). Also is the case of Fauziya Kassindja who came to
the United States in 1996. When the INS found that she had entered the country illegally they were set to deport her. However, she plead her case stating that if
she were to return to her native Togo her clitoris would be cut off(Swarns 2004). Lastly, there is the case of Mrs. Alvarado who is living in California. For years
she told officials in Guatemala about her husband. Nothing was done. Despite the fact that he routinely used her head to break windows and mirrors, that he raped and sodomized
her, and that her jaw was dislocated, they refused to prosecute her husband stating that it was a domestic matter between two married people(Swarns 2004). In Mrs. Alvarados case she
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