Posted on 02/24/2009 5:12:12 AM PST by FreeManDC
The Violence Against Women Act underwrites Green Card lottery schemes, lures foreign women into prostitution, and tars innocent American men as abusers — all at taxpayer expense. Here's how it works.
Green Card Girls — women who inveigle unsuspecting single men to bring them to the United States — are a well-known fixture in the international dating scene. An internet search on the term turns up chat room discussions, how-to books, X-rated videos, and more.
Green Card Girls may frequent entertainment clubs, operate out of translation agencies, or simply run an advertisement. In December 2007, immigration officials arrested Russian-born Yuliya Kalinina who placed an online solicitation stating, "Green Card Marriage — Will pay $300/month."
The price of admission of enrolling in the Green Card lottery is a willingness to engage in a series of amorous flings. Gill, a teenage girl from China, explains it this way: "I know a few girls will kill to date a rich man, and of course they shall be more than willing to offer themselves in a sexual way."
Prostitution comes next. A few years ago Shonda Werry interviewed female students at elite Russian universities and found many regarded prostitution as "their ticket to a better life," according to a Times Higher Education article. And last July Hungarian-born Agnes Jeges, 35, was arrested in Van Nuys, California for her role in a prostitution-for-Green-Card deal.
Once she latches on to her Prince Charming, the Green Card Girl can look forward to life in the Land of Milk and Honey. Even if the relationship goes sour, no problem, she can dump the guy and accuse him of domestic violence.
Then she dashes to the local abuse shelter. Thanks to the Violence Against Women Act, she now qualifies for emergency housing and can bypass the usual two-year waiting period to land her coveted Green Card. And she's entitled to free legal help.
All this is common knowledge. Do a Google search on "green card" and VAWA and you'll turn up nearly 10,000 hits.
Immigration authorities are aware of the scam. One official explains the shake-down this way: "Beautiful young women...entice a poor, unsuspecting 40-50-year old into marrying them, and then methodically proceed to ruin his life: calling 911 to report a wife-beating...going to a domestic abuse shelter."
One such man is Michael Wnuk, an engineering professor at the University of Wisconsin in Milwaukee. Diagnosed with cancer, he met one vivacious Lidiia Kolisnichenko of Poland who promised she could help — but first he would have to marry her.
Days after the wedding, her mood darkened. Her husband had never hit or harmed her, but that was beside the point.
Lidiia then staged a confrontation scene, ripping a phone from his hand, hysterically running from the house, and frantically imploring the neighbors for help. Now she had "witnesses" to her charge. Then she took a B-line to the local shelter, which welcomed her with open arms.
Over the ensuring months Wnuk spent thousands to clear his good name. "I am financially ruined and emotionally devastated," the engineering professor laments.
Lidiia Kolisnichenko is just one of thousands of Green Card Girls who each year flee to abuse shelters to become "certified" victims of violence. According to a recent survey by Eleanor Lyon and Shannon Lane at the University of Connecticut, 15% of residents at abuse shelters are there to get help for their immigration problems.
That means a lawyer who is willing to tell the woman that merely raising your voice is the same as full-fledged physical violence. According to the Legal Assistance Foundation of Chicago, "possessiveness" or needing to "walk on eggshells" are all signs of extreme cruelty. The attorney then coaches her how to complete the application for a restraining order.
I'm sure a few of these cases are legitimate and the ladies need our help. But many of these shelters are flim-flam operations. When the director at the Community Fellowship for Battered Women in northern California admits that persons are admitted simply because "they tell a good story," you know something fishy is going on.
So how do our billion-dollar-a-year federal domestic violence programs come into the picture?
First, they funnel money to immigrant aide organizations like ASISTA that openly advertise a Green Card can be had merely for the asking.
Second, they order the Citizenship and Immigration Service to give special deference to any woman who claims abuse — no proof needed. These petitions are rubber-stamped at an office in Vermont where the CIS adjudicator has little chance of verifying the petitioner's story.
Third, they channel millions to abuse shelters around the country who help perjurers file false accusations of abuse so they can ruin men's lives and qualify for government aid.
This is done in the name of protecting women and eradicating domestic violence.
At 55 and single, I get “Matched” with supposed model quality, 30 somethings, if I were to believe the photo’s represented the women on the other end of the profile.
The profile pretends they live in the U.S., but any communication quickly reveals they’re in some foreign country.
Keep the pics, block the profile!
Her plan did not work out.
As you can see by those two sites, there are plenty of reasons to be wary of gold diggers of every stripe.
More **it that was pushed by the jorge administration.
Oh please! Good men do not “snap” or there would be a lot more dead people. The Santa Clause killer was unbalanced asshat to begin with and snapped because he was snappable when things didn’t go his way, after seriously misrepresenting himself.
If she was disappointed in him because he 'misrepresented himself', why did she not simply go away? Why did she engage in a battle to steal his assets after just one year of marriage?
Looks to me like a gold digger. She was unhappy after one year. All she had to do was leave.
Not good enough.
She had to try to take away his $500,000.00 house and grabbed pockets full of cash and alimony from the guy.
One year of marriage?
Gold-digger who jumped ship the minute she found something she could use as an excuse. She was digging for the excuse, and jumped.
Happens all the time.
Usually the guy doesn't snap.
This one did.
You might do a little research, they were married for 3 years (although she filed after two, it took an entire year for the divorce to be finalized). And his own mother sided with the ex-wife, interestingly enough.
Then there is the abandoned brain damaged son that was injured while under his father’s care (just negligent or did he “snap” then, also?).
And why was he fired from his job for cause, making him was ineligible for unemployment?
This guy spent six months preparing both the crime and the get away. That’s not “snapping”, that’s a long standing imbalanced narcissistic thought process.
There are plenty of great guys who’ve been reamed through the system, toughed it out, recovered without killing that would make great posterboys for your cause.
The Santa Killer isn’t one of them.
I did not say he was a good guy.
He was a nutcase for sure.
He murdered innocent people.
But this lady was a gold-digger.
That is also an overlooked fact.
Why did the lady, who brought nothing to the marriage, after a couple of years try to take away his property? Why did she get cash, alimony and put the guy through a bitter divorce where she tried to take money and property away from him that she did nothing to earn?
She did nothing to earn a dime of it. He fathered no children with her.
How on earth was she entitled to his property because he did not live up to her expectations?
She should have simply packed her bags and moved on.
I’ve read the divorce petition, she did not try to take his property nor did she ask for it. She was awarded $10,000 cash as her community property portion of what she contributed to the marriage from her income over the 2 years of the marriage and the family dog as well as her personal effects, clothing and jewellry.
He never paid any of the temporary support due and that ammount was subsumed into the 10K settlement. Saying that she brought nothing into the marriage is BS, she worked full time the entire marriage and contributed to the household. $5k a year for two years is not a gold digger award or request. She just wanted out. The SOB had $17K in cash on his body.
He had a history of lying and deceit, both with employers and former girlfriends so lets just stop pretending he snapped be cause he was the victim of a gold-digger.
Guys like him give the rest of them a bad name, so stop carrying water for his memory.
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