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In a letter to Attorney General Merrick Garland, some attorneys and advocates requested he use his authority to get rid of five Trump policies, including one by then-Attorney General Jeff Sessions that reversed a 2014 precedent establishing that women fleeing domestic violence could qualify for asylum. File photo of U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland on April 26, 2021 in Washington, D.C.
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Immigrant advocates and law professors in the Bay Area are urging the Biden administration to immediately revoke Trump-era restrictions on asylum that they say have led the U.S. to send back to danger thousands of immigrant women and families fleeing domestic violence or gang brutality.