Posted on 02/22/2008 9:44:27 AM PST by FreeManDC
Each year the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA) and similar federal laws funnel $1 billion to help abused and battered women – or so we are led to believe. A good part of that money goes to immigrants who claim to be victims of domestic violence.
Last Fall I wrote a three-part exposé that revealed how an immigrant woman’s restraining order becomes a “gold-plated meal ticket that entitles her to preferential treatment by immigration authorities, free legal services, and a generous helping of welfare services.”
One woman whose father had been falsely accused of abuse and forced from his home wrote me, “I believe the Violence Against Women Act should be called the ‘Women Get What They Want Act.’” [www.renewamerica.us/columns/roberts/070912]
Following those columns I received an unending stream of horror stories from persons falsely accused of domestic violence. One came from Sean Moffett of St. Paul, Minn. whose wife is from Guatemala. Soon after the wedding he discovered to his dismay that her real aim was different from what she had pledged in her wedding vows.
This is his story: My wife’s family came to visit for a few months and they repeatedly attempted to provoke confrontations between my wife and me. Ultimately, my wife assaulted me by punching me in the neck. I did not hit my wife back or abuse her in any way.
I was arrested for 5th Degree Domestic Assault and spent three days in jail for a crime I did not commit and for not leaving my home under duress. While I was behind bars, my wife cleaned out the joint bank account.
I later learned that a legal aide group called Civil Society Helps had assisted with my wife’s abuse claims to expedite her immigration application. This outfit helps many immigrant women to file false abuse claims under the Violence Against Women Act.
Shortly after my release from jail, my wife asked me to write a letter to immigration stating I was an abusive husband. She promised if I wrote the letter she would help me get my home back.
Instead of allowing myself to be blackmailed, I wrote the Citizenship and Immigration Service to withdraw the petition for my wife’s U.S. residency. I used my last credit card to retain a lawyer to petition for divorce. At that point I was broke, homeless, and sleeping in my car and under my desk at the office.The courts later granted my wife all of the marital property and ordered that I surrender to her a car that was titled in my name. To add insult to injury, the judge granted her a one year Order for Protection.
She then telephoned me several times, calling me an “ABUSER” real slow and sarcastically. Knowing how groups like the Civil Society work, I can only imagine how they coached my wife.
Several times my wife has been confronted by the Eagan, Minn. police for driving without a license. She was repeatedly given a warning, yet continued to drive the vehicle. Later, I spoke with one of the officers and reminded him it is against the law for anyone to drive a motor vehicle without a license or insurance. His partner threatened to arrest me for allegedly creating a public disturbance. But I had done nothing wrong and they backed off when I informed them I had a witness looking on.
Last year I earned a very high salary, lived in a house by a lake, and enjoyed life as much as I could with a wife who didn’t love me. At age 36 I had no previous criminal history and had honorably completed four years of U.S. military service.
In three days, I was reduced to living in poverty and was homeless for weeks. I am no longer employable in my field due to my “criminal” history — 5th degree domestic assault with no conviction. My house was recently foreclosed and I have lost everything. Thanks to our VAWA laws and a series of outright lies by an immigrant residency-seeker, a law-abiding American citizen can be left penniless. All of your assets can be seized and given to the immigrant even if you are innocent of the charges.
The courts have violated my rights as an American citizen and I am alienated in my own country.
Are you the author of this article?
Supreme irony. What would have happened, do you suppose, if the complaintant had been a citizen?
This is more about marrying an evil woman that it is about her being an imigrant. Unless you figure in the "help" she got from the doo-gooders.
I’ve got mixed feelings on this one. A lot of foreign brides are victims of violence at the hands of men who can’t find a woman any other way. On the other hand lots of men are victimized by these women. (Seems that there should be a moral here)
I make sure that any woman I become involved in has access to my criminal history early on in the relationship. I myself am involved with a Serbian woman and I’ve released all my records for her to look at if she wishes. I’m not too worried about her taking everything I have since she’s already lived in this country for a decade and earns several times what I make anyway. She’s not trying to marry me for citizenship because she’s paying for all that herself.
Another story where the system is stacked against the man. As
a foreigner he had even less access to her history to get an idea of what kind of person she was. It looks like she was a grifter assisted by her family and schooled in the ways of the system.
What I see here is a matter of women vs men more than illegal vs legal. Face it, there’s not much this woman was able to accomplish that any wife couldn’t.
If you’re a man, you’re going to have to realize that you are the beast and hunting season is open.
Our laws have made it as simple as ordering up pizza for woment to get men kicked out of the house, obtain a restraining order within hours, and absolutely destroy him over the next few short weeks.
I realize there are men out there who abuse women, and I do not approve of that in any way shape or form. The fact still remains, that a guy cannot call the police on a whim and get his wife removed from the home and obtain a restraining order to keep her from returning, or even coming within 500 feet of him or the home, or the children.
Women can. And they do.
Might want to avoid marrying foreign women and then trying to get them legally into the country.
I believe the violence against women act is rooted in the case of Anastasia King who was a mail order bride murdered by the man who brought her here.
Like I said, there’s a moral here somewhere.
You know this personally, or did you drink the NYT/Newsweak/SeeBS Kool-Aid?
it’s actually a backdoor gun confiscation plan...look at the results and the backers.
No, that's the International Marriage Broker Act of 2005.
That depends on whether the complainant was male or female.
I have a white, native born, American citizen friend whose whose white, native born, American citizen wife physically assaulted him. He called the Police, she started crying about nonexistent "abuse" and he ended up behind bars in jail.
No matter what your race, creed, color, ethnicity or citizenship status is, if you are a male and your wife cries "abuse", you are going to jail regardless of the facts.
Bookmark for later read. Gotta’ run.
>>I am no longer employable in my field due to my “criminal” history — 5th degree domestic assault with no conviction.<<
I’m surprised that arrests with no convictions show up on an employer’s search.
Probably nothing
American women dont have the same protection that illegal aliens have...
And people wonder why some men go off the deep end.
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