The
marriage visa racket is alive and well as a means of
circumventing immigration law.
And, since the 1996
amendments to the Immigration Act came into effect, visa
fraud has been blossoming under a new guise—the use of
"domestic violence" charges by aliens as both a
weapon against American citizens and a path to a
green card.
Under
Section 204(a)(1)(A)(iii) of the Immigration Act,
an alien spouse who claims that she or her child
has been battered, or has been the subject of extreme
cruelty perpetrated by her American spouse or fiancé,
can get permanent resident status on her own. It can be
and is granted by the alien-friendly U.S. Citizenship
and Immigration Services (USCIS)
division of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS)
without
any proof or even further contact with the American.
(Men
can claim spousal abuse too, but as a practical matter
it's usually women.)
The
USCIS even publishes a
"how to" guide
for the self-petitioning spouse.
This
raises the specter that the federal government is in
effect facilitating a new breed of immigration
fraud—false battery accusation against its own citizens.
I have
been
posting detailed letters on this subject from
VDARE.com readers for years now. It never ceases to
amaze me how men take the time to share their
experiences of being hoodwinked and harassed and even
possibly jailed through false accusations.
So
over the years, these
pages have become an unlikely forum for sounding a
warning for unsuspecting American men:
Beware Illegal Alien Women!
As the
latest tragedy in this continuing saga, consider Dave's
story, e-mailed to me on August 30:
"I'd
like to tell you my story and how my illegal immigrant
wife is currently using our own American legal system to
perhaps get me
incarcerated, and also a permanent
green card!
"I met
my wife about a year and a half ago, when she arrived
from Argentina as an
au pair. We dated for eight months before
getting married, because she started pressuring me. I
was deeply in-love with her, felt like I had met the
woman of my dreams and gave in. On top of this, I was
about to graduate with a degree from
college and her already being a professional in her
home country (an
M.D.), I thought that together we would live well
and start a good, healthy family.
"BOY,
WAS I WRONG! I've since had to drop out of school, due
to the below case and all the money I've had to spend so
far.
"As
soon as she moved in with me a month later (she had to
finish her work contract first), she became another
person. She would physically and verbally abuse me,
emotionally attack me, destroy my property and cause me
pain and suffering almost every day. She hated the way I
was and my living arrangements, the friends I had,
everything about me!
'Funny
thing is, she knew all of this while we dated. Now I
realize all she was trying to do was provoke me into
doing to same to her.
"Our
short-lived marriage only lasted three months. She moved
in with me in December, and in March I had had enough,
so during our last argument (or should I say her last
argument), which lasted five hours and during which she
completely destroyed my apartment and physically abused
me, I called the cops and filed a domestic violence
report against her. They ordered her out of the house.
Score one for the good guys.
"We
still kept seeing each other for the next three months
and kept being intimate, but she would sometimes show up
at my house un-announced during the wee hours of the
morning and break into my apartment through a back
window. She said she just wanted to 'surprise' me and we
always ended up having sex. Little did I know I was
being set up by her all along!
"Then
during the first week of June, she finally came clean
and told me the only reason why she broke into my
apartment continuously was to catch me off guard with
another woman and to provoke me into calling the cops to
report her break-ins. The last time she did this I told
her 'no more,' so she started insulting, swearing,
cursing and hitting me, then asking me to hit her back
and or physically abuse her.
"When I
called in my roommate to witness the event, she left and
I didn't hear back from her again.
"A
month later, towards the end of July, I ran into her at
a local public establishment (we were both hired to work
at said place coincidentally) and she started the same
pattern of provoking me, pushing and shoving and
insulting me, until I again filed another police report
on her. But this time, she acted.
"About
a week after the above incident, a sheriff showed up at
my house and served me 'restraining order' papers,
claiming emotional abandonment, pain and suffering,
assault with a deadly weapon with intent to kill,
harassment, stalking and physical abuse. I couldn't
believe it! The same day, I retained an attorney who had
me file a restraining order against her to be used as
leverage, using both police reports I had filed before.
"We
went to court and she showed up with her mother, both in
tears, claiming they didn't speak any English (again, my
wife is an M.D. in Argentina and a elementary school
teacher here in the states) and also that they didn't
have any money for an attorney, when I know for a fact
my wife has at least $10,000 saved up in her baNk
account (I receive her statements).
"The
court of course, appointed a lawyer for her. The case
got continued until my attorney got my defense ready.
"So a
week later it's time for my restraining order against
her, and guess what? She hadn't been served yet, so they
continue the case.
"Now
let me get this straight: it took the police 4 days to
find and serve me from the day she filed, yet she still
hasn't been served and it's been four weeks for me
already, and I gave the police three different addresses
where she could be found (one home address and two work
addresses). Can you believe it?
"Right
now I am still in court proceedings to get her
restraining order dropped and mine enforced. In the
meantime, I've sent the USCIS evidence of the marriage
fraud (she's since been dating an old college friend of
hers from Medical school from Argentina, coincidence or
what?), but have not heard back from them.
"I have
harassing e-mails from her mother and her, pressuring me
into divorcing her, even though North Carolina law says
we have to be living separate and apart for a year,
change of address confirmations from the U.S. Postal
Service, police reports against her, pictures of her and
her new 'hubby,' friend's testimonials, all kinds of
stuff. Yet, when I met with an Immigrations officer to
report her, all he said was: 'Just submit the paperwork
to the main office and we'll take care of the rest.'
"Is
there any way we can stop this scam that all foreign
women know they can get away with? We need to raise
public awareness and let our Congressmen take action!
"The
USCIS is even aware of these scams, yet they protect
'battered and abused immigrant women' under false
allegations, and hurt innocent U.S. citizens in the long
run!"
The Mainstream Media is constantly
running stories about deserving immigrants and how they
are oppressed by the current system.
How about some publicity for
Americans who have been victimized by
immigrant marriage fraud?
Juan Mann [send him
email] is a lawyer and the proprietor of
DeportAliens.com.
