Appeals Court Denies Asylum To Woman Raped By Two Men

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit ruled a Salvadoran woman who was raped by two men in El Salvador didn't show she was targeted because of her gender, clearing the way for deportation.

In a troubling decision, two judges on a three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit based in San Francisco have rejected a woman’s plea to avoid deportation to protect her from rapists in her home country of El Salvador

The immigrant, Fatima Guadalupe Monjaras-Segovia, testified that she fled El Salvador after she was raped b…