Why Immigrants Need the Violence Against Women Act

Published: Oct. 12, 2018, 11:34 a.m.

Ana Mar\xeda Toledo C\xe1ceres landed in Las Vegas on a sweltering September day in 2014. In the car with her fianc\xe9, en route to her new home in Utah, the 49-year-old Guatemalan tried to take in the stark, red rock landscape. C\xe1ceres had been sad to leave her two daughters behind in Guatemala City, but now she felt excited and ready to marry the man she loved.