After seven years of assaults and rapes by her husband, Marta Bolvito Canahui fled Guatemala in 2011 and entered the United States. Held for deportation, she said all that awaited her in her native country was more abuse, with no protection from local police. But immigration courts said she had all the protection the law required, because police had responded to most of her calls in the past. The problem with that assessment, said the Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco, is that the officers who came to the couple’s home didn’t actually do anything. Twice they issued summonses to Bolvito Canahui’s husband, but they never detained
