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Guatemalan women who flee violence in homeland find it catches up in Palm Beach County
Palm Beach Post ^ | July 15, 2010 | John Lantigua

Posted on 07/15/2010 12:07:00 PM PDT by ConservativeStatement

When a federal court in California blocked the deportation of an undocumented Guatemalan woman this week, the case resonated in Palm Beach County.

Lesly Yajayra Perdomo, 34, insisted that Guatemalan society is so dangerous for women under 40 that, for no other reason than her sex and age, she faced the threat of physical harm if forced to return to her native country. The U.S. Court of Appeals in San Francisco agreed with enough of her argument that it sent her case back for further review.

In Palm Beach Gardens, Ana Matias, 33, had no trouble understanding Perdomo's plea. She says her former husband repeatedly beat her in both Guatemala and Florida and eventually used the Guatemalan legal system, which she says is biased against women, to take their three children from her.

"Violence against women is bad in the Guatemalan community here, but it is even worse back there," Matias said.

(Excerpt) Read more at palmbeachpost.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs
KEYWORDS: guatemalan; immigration
Rush's fault.
1 posted on 07/15/2010 12:07:03 PM PDT by ConservativeStatement
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To: ConservativeStatement

We are living in the age of insanity.


2 posted on 07/15/2010 12:09:17 PM PDT by BenLurkin
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To: ConservativeStatement

>> Lesly Yajayra Perdomo, 34, insisted that Guatemalan society is so dangerous for women under 40 that, for no other reason than her sex and age, she faced the threat of physical harm if forced to return to her native country.

Fine. Then go to Honduras. Or Costa Rica. Or El Salvador. Or...

Anywhere but here.


3 posted on 07/15/2010 12:10:59 PM PDT by Nervous Tick (Eat more spinach! Make Green Jobs for America!)
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To: Nervous Tick

The men who grow up to be violent have been raised BY WOMWN> It’s up to thiose women to raise their sons differently.


4 posted on 07/15/2010 12:12:16 PM PDT by kabumpo (Kabumpo)
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To: kabumpo

Should be true for muslim women too.


5 posted on 07/15/2010 12:16:25 PM PDT by Gadsden1st
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To: ConservativeStatement

Guatemala is one of the newly “re-Communist” countries. Latin Americans are fleeing these countries in droves. Of course, since our country is turning into a newly Communist country, I don’t know what they’re going to do then.


6 posted on 07/15/2010 12:19:07 PM PDT by livius
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To: ConservativeStatement

you cannot run away from your problems, sorry, they are not the exception.


7 posted on 07/15/2010 12:46:49 PM PDT by television is just wrong
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To: kabumpo

And I suppose the fathers have no input?


8 posted on 07/15/2010 12:59:17 PM PDT by Amberdawn
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To: ConservativeStatement

The carpetbaggers have turned that part of Florida into an urban Hell.


9 posted on 07/15/2010 1:04:04 PM PDT by SWAMPSNIPER (The Second Amendment, A Matter Of Fact, Not A Matter Of Opinion)
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To: SWAMPSNIPER

So upon reading the article I see that it is not some nonspecific blob called “violence” that is hounding and abusing them, it is Guatemalan men.

I hate to sound like a broken record, but the usage of trebuchets will solve this problem right quick. Gosh, how I pine for their use....


10 posted on 07/15/2010 1:16:52 PM PDT by I Buried My Guns (Novare Res!)
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To: kabumpo

Yeah, right. And women who are raped have obviously asked for it. </disgusted sarcasm>


11 posted on 07/15/2010 1:17:41 PM PDT by LoveUSA (What are we waiting for?)
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To: Amberdawn

The mother is the primary person in a young child’s life (under noraml circumstances). The mother can raise the child to not be a spoiled and violent/


12 posted on 07/15/2010 2:00:57 PM PDT by kabumpo (Kabumpo)
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To: Gadsden1st

yes, it should. They can break the cycle.


13 posted on 07/15/2010 2:06:19 PM PDT by kabumpo (Kabumpo)
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To: kabumpo

Yes, she is for the first 2-3 years. After that, the child naturally gravitates more to the father. I don’t disagree that mothers have an influence, but that fathers are the ones that teach and show their sons how a man behaves. If he is abusive, so will they be.


14 posted on 07/15/2010 4:59:08 PM PDT by Amberdawn
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