[Stop-traffic] New York Times Article

[Pippin Whitaker]

In today's New York Times, regarding asylum for battered
women:http://www.nytimes.com/2004/03/11/politics/11IMMI.html

Excerpt:
---Ashcroft Weighs Granting of Asylum to Abused Women
By RACHEL L. SWARNS

Published: March 11, 2004


ASHINGTON, March 10 — The first hint of change came without much
fanfare or publicity last month as the Department of Homeland Security
quietly proposed sweeping changes in the handling of political asylum
cases. But as word trickled across the country, dozens of battered
women seeking refuge in the United States felt the first stirrings of
hope.
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