"Studies vary widely in estimating the percentage
(between 12-50%) of all married women who
experience some form of domestic battery in
their lives. Whatever the rate in the general
population, the percentage for immigrant women
is probably higher."
She cites this as her evidence: "Exact numbers
are difficult to gauge, but various reports
suggest that the population of abused immigrant
women is very large. Preliminary data from
a random sample survey of 157 UNDOCUMENTED
[my emphasis] Latinas in the D.C. metropolitan
area indicates, for instance, that 60% of
undocumented women report that they are battered
by their spouses.") So, migrant workers who
snuck across the border illegally and became
"abused" by their uncoumented novio/esposo
fall in the same category as MOB relationships?
Clark did reference one source article that
was somewhat more objective and level-headed.
She only used the parts that supported
her theorys taking away from the report only
those anecdotal cases needed to liven up her
own testimony. So, the substance of the following
was never included:
Fact: "So far, no definitive
studies have confirmed the industry's bad
rap. In the 1996 Mail-Order Bride Act, Congress
directed the Department of Justice to investigate
fraud and domestic violence in mail-order
marriages. But immigration officials don't
collect data on these relationships, so after
three years of fact-gathering the DOJ could
offer only preliminary and suspect statistics.
Based on 266 immigration cases, a
small sample, DOJ reported that matchmaking
agencies did not play a significant role in
marriage fraud. Investigators also found that
mail-order brides suffer abuse LESS FREQUENTLY
than homegrown wives. On the strength
of anecdotal evidence that some mail-order
brides are abused, however, the 1996 law required
international marriage brokers to tell Mail
Order Brides about their rights to claim certain
immigration benefits if they become victims
of domestic violence."
http://www.legalaffairs.org/issues/January-February-2004/story_labi_janfeb04.msp.
Here's what qualifies as domestic violence.
(Keep this in mind as you wonder what kinds
of questions the pollsters ask when conducting
their "surveys"):
* Continually criticized you, called you names
or shouted at you
* Insulted or driven away your friends or
family
* Humiliated you in private or public
* Kept you from working, controlled your money
or made all the decisions
* Refused to work or to share money
* Taken car keys or money from you
* Regularly threatened to leave or told you
to leave
* Threatened to kidnap the children when the
abuser was angry with you
* Abused pets to hurt you
* Manipulated you with lies and contradictions
3. Thousands Of Mail-Order
Brides Killed Every Year!
By their own husbands! Well, not thousands.
Well, not even hundreds. In the last 10 years,
CNN reports that three were killed by their
spouse. Luckily, that hasn't stopped Representative
Rick Larsen (D-Virginia) from, in Ken Layne's
words, "presenting a bill to end the bloodshed":
One of the provisions of the bill would require
that brides be informed of their husbands'
criminal records. Assuming the average over
the past decade is in the middle, there have
been about 100,000 mail-order marriages over
the past decade. This means one in 33,333
MOBs have been murdered since 1995.
According to the American Institute on Domestic
Violence, 1,232 women are killed each year
by an intimate partner. So roughly, 12,320
women have been killed by their "intimate"
over the past decade. From 1994 to 2003 there
was roughly 23,127,000 marriages in the U.S.
This works out to one murder per 1,878 marriage.
So "legitimate"
marriages are about 18 times more likely to
end in murder.
Fact: Here
are some USA stats for you according to this
government report
http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/pub/pdf/ipv01.pdf
(1976) - 1600 women murdered by their spouse
(34.9% of all murders)
(1980) - 1549 women murdered by their spouse
(29.6% of all murders)
(1990) - 1501 women murdered by their spouse
(29.3 % of all murders)
(1193) - 1581 women murdered by their spouse
(28.5 % of all murders)
(2000) - 1247 women murdered by there spouse
(33.5 % of all murders)
That is over 7400 women murdered by there
spouse in those 5 years reviewed.
4500 MEN WERE MURDERED
BY THERE SPOUSE IN THOSE SAME 5 YEARS
HOW MANY DOCUMENTED CASES OF MEN KILLING MALE
ORDER BRIDES ARE THERE IN THESE SAME 5 YEARS
WHERE 7400 USA WOMEN CITIZENS WERE MURDERED....2,
1, 0?
7400 women were murdered by their spouse in
those 5 years above. The senator from
Washington State talks about 2 foreign ladies
in 10 years. So where are the stats?
So what does mail order brides have to do
with this? they are not.. it is all about
smoke and mirrors game being played by Feminist
hate groups and large American dating
companies that paid to be exempt from this
law.
