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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsWhy Trump thinks domestic violence victims don't deserve asylum, abuse is a private matter..
Why Trump thinks domestic violence victims don't deserve asylum.
What else, other than out-and-out hostility and a desire to hurt the most vulnerable, justifies Sessionss decision to remove asylum protections from women suffering violence at the hands of their partners? Well, theres one other thing: misogyny, and the attendant lack of understanding of how domestic violence works. Sessions classifies intimate partner violence as 'private', and leveled against women 'for personal reasons'
In his opinion on the matter, Sessions classifies intimate partner violence as private, and leveled against women for personal reasons. Thats significant because obtaining a grant of asylum requires that the asylum seeker show they are persecuted for their race, religion, political views, national origin, or membership in a particular social group. While of course some men suffer domestic violence as well, and some women are perpetrators, overwhelmingly it is women who are abused at the hands of men its not just domestic violence, its gender-based violence, perpetrated because men believe they have a right of absolute control over women, and often ignored by law enforcement because, like Sessions, police and governments all over the world considered raping and beating your wife or girlfriend a private, personal matter.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/jun/21/trump-immigration-rules-vulnerable-children?utm_source=esp&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=GU+Today+USA+-+Collections+2017&utm_term=278741&subid=17536001&CMP=GT_US_collection
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Why Trump thinks domestic violence victims don't deserve asylum, abuse is a private matter.. (Original Post)
jodymarie aimee
Jun 2018
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Frustratedlady
(16,254 posts)1. This is not the Onion or Borowitz? You've gotta be kidding me!
No wonder women can't get any relief from these clowns. What a hateful and narrow-minded view.
These people scare the hell out of me. We MUST get them out of power and keep them out. Women's lives depend on it.
bdamomma
(63,922 posts)2. Isn't Trump a wife beater????
he doesn't give a shit, he is a molester of women too. And proudly announces it, Grab them by the pu**y.