Transcript: Battered Asylum Seekers May Find U.S. Relief

LINDA WERTHEIMER
NPR Morning Edition
07-22-2009
Battered Asylum Seekers May Find U.S. Relief

Host: LINDA WERTHEIMER
Time 10:00-11:00 AM


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Successive U.S. administrations have struggled with the question of whether female victims of domestic violence qualify for asylum in this country. Now the Obama administration is arguing that the answer is yes. NPR's Jennifer Ludden reports.

JENNIFER LUDDEN: The arguments are on behalf of a Mexican woman identified in court documents only as L.R. She says she was abused repeatedly by her husband starting in 1987. He would put a gun to her head and force her to have sex. The woman's lawyer, Karen Musalo, says once when ...

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