Blog #3 Is domestic Violence cause for US to Grant Asylum?

Traditionally, the United States federal policy for granting asylum has been for people who are being procuted by their county because of race, religion, nationality or political beliefs. Now since the Obama policy shift a number of judges feel like they are able to grant asylum to women in the case of domestic violence.
The government does not record asylum cases by gender or claim , but by county of origin. These cases are best tracked by the Center for Gender and Refugee Studies. They track asylum seekers by gender, and last year the center assisted 650 attorneys with domestic violence asylum cases. Due to Obama's new policy a number of domestic violence asylum cases are to be reevaluated from 2001 through 2008. These cases will soon cause a rise in this non-traditional form of asylum.
The United States grants asylum to about 20,000 immigrants out of 70,000 that request asylum yearly with in the country. The united States at the same time admitts 75,000 refugees yearly from people applying for asylum from outside the county. The Department of Homeland Security in April 2009 issued a brief stating what domestic violence victims must prove to gain asylum. The department is continuing to view domestic violence as a possiblity for asylum and is presently still developing guidelines to address these cases noting that each case is unique.
The family in this article was denied asylum by the judge on the premiss of placement within the social groups used in winning other asylum cases such as "Honduran women who are unable to leave their domestic relationship" and "Honduran woman who are treated like property within a domestic relationship." The judge revisited the case in December 2010 and granted her Angie asylum based on her political belief that Honduran woman should not have to live subordinate to male domination.