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Tommy Elrod
Thread from an immigration lawyer:
This is why Jeff Sessions takes all the abuse from Trump but doesn't resign. He'll take any amount of embarrassment as long as he is allowed to use his power to terrorize those he deems unworthy.
So Sessions overturned a shitty EOIR decision that was forced through by the Obama administration in his second term. Sessions is correct on this one. Domestic violence is not grounds for asylum and wasn't until 2014-- another one of those things so important to Obama that he didn't push it through until he had been in office for six years. The gang violence decision is the more interesting element here, when gangs like MS13 run parts of El Salvador as much as FARC ran portions of Colombia. Domestic violence plays better though I guess, especially to immigration lawyers who just saw some of their predominantly frivolous asylum business dry up.
There are ways for victims of domestic violence to get their legalized status and green cards. Asylum is not one of them.