Lindsay Harris: Trump’s War of Attrition on Women Asylum Seekers

Immigration law professor Lindsay Harris has commentary (“Trump’s War of Attrition on Women Asylum Seekers”) in Ms. Magazine reviewing the Trump administration’s cutting back on asylum protections for women.  Harris ends her piece with this bottom line: 

“Women’s rights are a hot topic of conversation at the moment. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg led strategic litigation to advance women’s rights prior to accepting a seat on the high court. With her passing and Trump’s nomination of conservative anti-feminist Amy Coney Barrett to fill the vacant seat on the Court, women’s rights are about to be fundamentally called into question and tested before the Supreme Court, potentially for decades to come.  

In this moment, American women should ask ourselves whether we are comfortable with four more years of men like Donald Trump, Stephen Miller and Bill Barr, and women like Amy Coney Barrett dictating immigration policy and policy in general as it intersects with women’s lives.

And we should vote like our lives depend on it because those of our immigrant sisters—fleeing tragedy and seeking protection—most certainly do.” (bold added).

KJ