Immigration experts say they are more encouraged than ever that cases like Mrs. Alvarado's will be resolved by the Obama Administration. No doubt Ms. Rosenthal's cup will runneth over with issues of purely homegrown domestic violence - which the stresses of the recession have apparently caused to spiral out of control. Perhaps the relatively tiny number of battered women seeking asylum in America will be assigned a low priority.
But further delay would simply exacerbate a gross denial of justice. So even at a time when immigration in general remains one of the third rails of American politics, Lynn Rosenthal needs to find the time to flex a little White House muscle with the DOJ and the DHS. She needs to ensure that the process of writing one new regulation doesn't again fall victim to another decade of bureaucratic bungling and inter-agency turf wars.
So Rodi Alvarado can see her kids again.
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