Cynical Rollback Against Victims of Violence

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Congress is currently trying to reauthorize the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA) this week. This Act, as it stands, allows battered spouses to petition for their own legal status, should they be in an extremely abusive relationship where their U.S. citizen or permanent resident spouse has isolated them from friends and family, beaten them physically, verbally threatened them with deportation, …