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Ashcroft
Courtesy of Body and Soul:
Here's the press release from the Lawyers Committee for Human Rights. I can't find a source for the "reportedly" in the above statement, but if it's true, it'll happen March 1, before the INS moves out of Justice and into Homeland Security.
Attorney General John Ashcroft is reportedly planning to reverse current policy on the availability of asylum for victims of domestic violence and issue new regulations which could severely limit the ability of women fleeing many forms of gender-based human rights abuses – including sex trafficking, sexual slavery, honor killing and domestic violence - from seeking asylum in the United States.
Here's the press release from the Lawyers Committee for Human Rights. I can't find a source for the "reportedly" in the above statement, but if it's true, it'll happen March 1, before the INS moves out of Justice and into Homeland Security.