The new policy is a needless, heartless declaration of war on one of the world's most vulnerable populations. It will not make America safer or richer. But it will drive thousands of women back into the homes of their abusers — effectively, for many, to their deaths. Violence against women is not mere "misfortune" — it is systemic persecution of a group stripped of the legal or political means to fight back. It should be treated as such under asylum law.