On June 11, 2018, the current Attorney General (AG) issued a decision, Matter of A-B-. In it, the AG overturned a prior decision, Matter of A-R-C-G-. which found that married women who can not leave the relationship is a Particular Social Group for asylum. That decision cleared the way for many grants of asylum for Central American women who were victims of domestic violence. In an amazingly poorly written decision, the AG decided that such social groups are circular, and therefore not cognizable under immigration laws.
Today we had a trial for a woman from Central America, who was raped, beaten, psychological abused to the point of attempting suicide, at the hands of her domestic partner, the father of her child. She was denied by a sympathetic Immigration Judge, who found her credible, believed every word she had to say, and even commented that if he had heard this case prior to June 11, he would certainly have granted it. Instead, in an abbreviated decision, he denied the claim finding it is foreclosed by Matter of A-B-.
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