The following excerpt is from a July 13, 2010 article, published by CNN.com. To read the article in its entirety, please click here.
(CNN) — An appeals court ruling has raised the possibility that Guatemalan women will be able to seek asylum in the United States because of the high rates of femicide in that country.
A Guatemalan woman seeking asylum based on her belief that she would not be safe in her native country will have her case reviewed, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled Monday.
Lesly Yajayra Perdomo, a native of Guatemala who entered the United States illegally as a teenager to join her mother in 1991, was facing deporation in 2003.
She requested asylum “because she feared persecution as a member of a particular social group consisting of women between the ages of fourteen and forty,” according to the court document. In particular, Perdomo argued that women in Guatemala “were murdered at a high rate with impunity.”…
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