Attorney General’s Decisions Allow Gang and Domestic Violence Survivors to Seek and Obtain Asylum Again
On June 16, 2021 Attorney General Merrick Garland vacated Trump-era Attorney General rulings that for all intents and purposes removed asylum protections for people escaping gender-based violence, gang brutality, and persecution against families. These Trump-era rulings were legally unfounded and forced immigration judges to sidestep fair determinations in order to prejudge cases along the Trump administration’s abhorrent anti-immigrant policies. Many…