America should offer refuge to victims of forced slavery instead of weaponizing their pain

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

49% : Ideally, Congress should make clear that escaped slave laborers are eligible for asylum, not leave the matter up to executive discretion.
44% : Unless and until they are overruled by the Attorney General, a federal court, or BIA itself, decisions like this one are binding on Department of Homeland Security officials and immigration judges who consider asylum claims.
39% : In Matter of A-C-M (2018), the Justice Department's Board of Immigration Appeals rejected a Salvadoran woman's application for asylum on precisely that basis.
37% : Under A-C-M, Yazidi women used as sex slaves by ISIS must be denied asylum because, as the BIA might put it, their forced labor had a "reasonably foreseeable tendency to promote, sustain, or maintain the [ISIS] organization" by improving the morale of ISIS fighters who raped them.
19% : The Trump-era rulings were badly wrong, for example, in failing to recognize that many Central American victims of domestic abuse are victims of violence arising from sex discrimination, and thereby entitled to asylum on that basis.
16% : But the Biden administration should also reverse another Trump-era asylum ruling that is even more egregious: a decision absurdly holding that civilians used as slave laborers by terrorist groups are ineligible for asylum because their forced labor qualifies as "material support for terrorism" under federal law restricting asylum claims.

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