A woman shot her husband after what she says was months of physical abuse and is being processed for deportation. Her last hope to stay in the U.S. is Gov. Gavin Newsom.
by federal immigration officials. The governor took the time to call one of those immigrants and spoke to the family of another in federal custody.“I have petitions for many, many others that are pending or we’re considering,” Newsom said recently. “Good people can disagree, but I will continue to consider that and put a lot of weight on that — deportation.”
The three immigrants Newsom pardoned had all been out of prison for more than a decade. That was long enough to demonstrate that they had been “living an upright life,” Newsom said in his official pardons for each.The 35-year-old Ethiopian native, who came to the United States in 2014 as a legal resident, has been behind bars since shooting her husband in the back eight months after her arrival. After completing her four-year sentence in state prison, Birru was taken into custody by U.S.
Civil rights organizations across Northern California have taken up Birru’s cause, launching a “Free Liyah” campaign that gathered more than 35,000 signatures on a petition urging Newsom to pardon her.“We’re here today to affirm that black lives matter. That black women matter. That black immigrant women matter,” Marena Blanchard of Color of Change, a civil rights group, said during a July rally outside the governor’s office at the state Capitol.
Birru said she wanted to go to a shelter for victims of domestic violence but that without a car or much money she was unable to flee. She knew no one nearby she could turn to for help. She once asked her husband to take her to a shelter but he refused, she claimed in court records. Marriage and family therapist Linda Barnard, who evaluated Birru for the defense during the criminal trial, said she was a victim of “intimate partner battering,” which led directly to her shooting her husband.
The probation report conducted on behalf of the court, however, concluded that Birru “had an opportunity to remove herself from the alleged physical abuse and call 911, however, she chose to access a firearm.” Birru said the political unrest in Ethiopia has her worried about what would happen if she is sent back.
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