Sauron
March 3rd 2003, 02:33 AM
Nice to know that the Attorney General is a devout christian....see bold below......
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A30713-2003Mar2.html
Ashcroft Reconsiders Asylum Granted to Abused Guatemalan
New Regulations Could Affect Gender-Based Persecution
By George Lardner Jr.
Washington Post Staff Writer
Monday, March 3, 2003; Page A02
Attorney General John D. Ashcroft has decided to reconsider the granting of asylum to a battered Guatemalan woman whose husband has threatened to kill her if she returns to her homeland, a senior Justice Department official has confirmed.
Ashcroft is also considering new gender-persecution regulations for asylum-seekers instead of a proposed set that was left hanging in the final days of the Clinton administration.
The regulations, proposed by Attorney General Janet Reno in December 2000, grew out of the case of the Guatemalan woman, Rodi Alvarado, who said she fled to the United States in 1995 after her husband repeatedly raped her, whipped her with electrical cords, broke windows and mirrors with her head, and vowed to kill her if she tried to leave him.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A30713-2003Mar2.html
Ashcroft Reconsiders Asylum Granted to Abused Guatemalan
New Regulations Could Affect Gender-Based Persecution
By George Lardner Jr.
Washington Post Staff Writer
Monday, March 3, 2003; Page A02
Attorney General John D. Ashcroft has decided to reconsider the granting of asylum to a battered Guatemalan woman whose husband has threatened to kill her if she returns to her homeland, a senior Justice Department official has confirmed.
Ashcroft is also considering new gender-persecution regulations for asylum-seekers instead of a proposed set that was left hanging in the final days of the Clinton administration.
The regulations, proposed by Attorney General Janet Reno in December 2000, grew out of the case of the Guatemalan woman, Rodi Alvarado, who said she fled to the United States in 1995 after her husband repeatedly raped her, whipped her with electrical cords, broke windows and mirrors with her head, and vowed to kill her if she tried to leave him.