Re-posted by Nicholas Stix
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Report: Illegal 'brides' claiming abuse to get green cards
By Paul Bedard (@SecretsBedard) • 9/7/16 1:49 PM
The number of green cards being issued to alien brides married to Americans has tripled in one year, evidence of the latest bid by illegal immigrants to use the legal system to gain quick citizenship, according to a new report.
The Center for Immigration Studies, reviewing newly issued data from Customs and Immigration Services, found the surge among women claiming that their American citizen husbands are abusing them.
And under the current rules, any charge made by those brides is accepted by the government, sometimes without the husband even being contacted, and a green card is issued.
The Center described the process as a fast path to legal status. Immigrant women who marry permanent resident aliens, not U.S. citizens, have to wait two to six years for a visa. Those who marry a U.S. citizen immediately become a legal resident and get a conditional green card.
The data shows that the number of green card visas granted "abused" immigrant wives that married Americans jumped from 2,657 in 2013 to 7,600 in 2014.
"Were male citizens three times as likely to beat their alien wives in one year than in the prior year? Probably not," wrote CIS Fellow David North.
"Everyone is concerned about abusive spouses, but I find it highly unlikely that the actual incidence of spousal abuse among citizen-alien couples tripled between 2013 and 2014. What is much more likely is that the sleepy people at USCIS have turned a blind eye to a growing trend of fraudulent use of a provision in immigration law that allows an abused spouse to secure a green card largely on her unsupported testimony that her new citizen (or green card) spouse has been abusive to her," he added.
The practice isn't new, just the number of people who might be taking advantage of it, wrote North, who has followed the trend and even received calls from spouses caught up in alleged scams.
He described it this way:
Every couple of weeks we at the Center hear from yet another citizen, usually but not always a male, who contends that he was conned into marrying an alien woman (usually younger, sometimes much younger) who proceeded to dump him as soon as she secured the conditional green card for newlywed aliens, and who then sought permanent green card status by arguing that she was abused, and thus eligible for the benefit under the Violence Against Women Act. Routinely the citizen spouse complains to DHS, and routinely that agency decides on behalf of the alien, not responding to the citizen's complaints, often not even telling him of its decision.
See the full report here.
Paul Bedard, the Washington Examiner's "Washington Secrets" columnist, can be contacted at pbedard@washingtonexaminer.com
Abused as to be broadly defined. NOT abuse as is generally, commonly and ordinarily understood as to beating or hitting and confined to such?
ReplyDelete"The number of green cards being issued to alien brides married to Americans has tripled in one year, evidence of the latest bid by illegal immigrants to use the legal system to gain quick citizenship, according to a new report."
ReplyDeleteMy undestanding these women receive some sort of training [attend classes] before they come to the U.S. They know how to game the system even before arriving.
This is an instance of an illegal alien hiring an illegal alien possibly to transport other illegal aliens?
ReplyDeleteIs a death penalty case under federal law? An ongoing racketeering conspiracy for profit where someone was killed.
jerry pdx
ReplyDeleteThe stereotype of green card marriages is that they are something foreign females use to gain access to US citizenship. American men marry them for "love" but end up being scammed. I'm sure that's true in a fair number of cases, but it's also foreign males marrying American women. I'd be curious to know the statistics on this but I couldn't find anything online. I suspect that foreign males fraudulently marrying American females is more common than we realize because the media focus is usually on the other way around.
Former Gov. Kitzhaber of OR, my home state, was taken down because of his girlfriend, the much young and quite pretty Sylvia Hayes, whose ambition, lack of sense and dirty laundry caused a scandal that destroyed his credibility. One of the scandals was that she had married a black Ethiopian named Abraham B. Abraham who was a teenager 11 yrs. younger than her. She kept it a secret from her fiancee Kitzhaber. They divorced a few years later but she was supposedly paid some money for the scam. No word on whether or not they actually had sex, who knows but judging from the personality she projects I think she did, my guess is she has told Kitzhaber it was just business they never did. He likely believes her but it's clear he's pussy whipped. http://www.oregonlive.com/politics/index.ssf/2014/10/gov_kitzhabers_fiancee_cylvia.html
Note: Just fairly recently I was sitting on the city bus listening to a white woman having an animated conversation with a black man on the bus, she was describing her first two marriages, both to African black men, she bitched about how things didn't work out but they both got green cards out of the deal. She sounded like she was proud of the fact she got them citizenship to the US. Women like love being in the business of shipping black men (or Muslim), to the US, it increases the number of single males around and makes them feel more powerful as women. I turned around to look at her and she was, not surprisingly, fat and hideous. Don't see many exceptions to that with those kind of women.
"I turned around to look at her and she was, not surprisingly, fat and hideous."
ReplyDeleteWithin Arabic culture the fatter the woman is the more attractive she is deemed.
"One of the scandals was that she had married a black Ethiopian named Abraham B. Abraham who was a teenager 11 yrs. younger than her. She kept it a secret from her fiancee Kitzhaber. They divorced a few years later but she was supposedly paid some money for the scam."
ReplyDeleteMy understanding is that the money involved in these cases is quite significant. These aliens that are often called refugees or from poverty stricken countries are able to amass a fortune however to marry an American woman?