Tuesday, October 11, 2011

Immigrant Injustice

No matter what state undocumented immigrants live in, they can be cheated and have no way to get justice. - - Donna Poisl

By Grace Meng

I met “Sonia,” a farmworker in upstate New York, in August. She and her husband had managed to scrape together $3,000 for a down payment on a house. After two years of making mortgage payments, they discovered the seller had never transferred the title to them. They are being evicted from the home they thought was their own.

What would you do if you were Sonia? Hire a lawyer?

Sonia and her husband tried to do just that, but as they started to seek recourse in the legal system, the seller threatened to call immigration. Sonia is an undocumented immigrant.
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