Expansion of Asylum Opportunities for Illegal Immigrants

As mentioned in this blog in an entry dated July 17, 2009 entitled "Some Recent Developments which Expand Asylum Possibilities," the Obama administration and liberal courts are opening asylum opportunities to hundreds of millions of women in poverty around the world, especially women from Africa. This movement to expand asylum options was recently pushed further along by the Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, a court well-known for its liberal tendencies.

The Ninth, which is based in San Francisco, overturned the deportation orders of two immigration courts and ordered immigration judges to reconsider granting asylum to an illegal immigrant from Guatamala based on the high murder rate of women in Guatamala. "Most important, the court ordered the Board of Immigration to determine whether all Guatamalan woman can qualify -- a decision that could open the door to similar claims from other countries such as El Salvador, Honduras, and others with histories of widespread gender abuse."*

*Quote from NationRoundup, San Francisco, The Tribune (San Luis Obispo), July 13, 2010.