And the Obama administration has given an opening for foreign women victimized by domestic and sexual abuse to receive asylum in the United States. The New York Times reports the White House has provided narrow guidelines under which women could now be granted asylum in abuse cases. The administration outlined its new position in a court filing in the immigration case of a Mexican woman who had been raped and held hostage by her husband. The new policy follows a more than decade-long legal battle over granting asylum to abused women.