Female mutilation

Senators Olympia Snowe and Carl Levin, a Democrat from Michigan, asked the U.S. attorney general on Tuesday to review a Board of Immigration ruling that the threat of genital mutilation is grounds for asylum, but those who have already fallen victim to it would not be eligible. Snowe and Levin said in a statement that the ruling ignored "the real ongoing effects that victims of FGM are faced with for the remainder of their lives."