The Regular Abuse of Women in Our Asylum System Must Stop

Briefing is a challenge today. Reading offensive and blatantly misogynistic and illegal holdings by biased adjudicators sentencing our clients to death repeatedly at every level of appeal is a punch in the gut every time. The feeling never fades.

— CBrownImmLaw (@cbrownimmlaw) June 11, 2021

"The IJ denied respondents’ applications for protection in a decision riddled with legal error and contradictory holdings, and which included offensive findings that women must rely on the protection of men in order to lead lives free of gender-based violence and torture."

— CBrownImmLaw (@cbrownimmlaw) June 11, 2021

Imagine suffering violent abuse at the hands of every man you have ever met only to have a "judge" tell you that you can be safe if you go back to your country as long as you have a man escort you - to school, work, out with your friends - to fend off other violent men.

— CBrownImmLaw (@cbrownimmlaw) June 11, 2021