Thursday, October 11, 2012

Arizona immigration law affects victims of domestic violence

This was a worry of many people as one of the consequences of this law, and it is coming true.  The women's husbands are taking advantage of it too.  - - Donna Poisl

from FoxNewsLatino

Undocumented immigrants who are the victims of domestic violence could be among those most negatively affected by the entry into force of the Arizona law that allows police to question the immigration status of people they arrest.

"I have several cases of women who are terrified of talking to the police. They are terrorized, they're afraid that (the police) could separate them from their children who are citizens of this country and they could be deported to their countries of origin, places that often they don't know because they were brought while very small to the U.S.," Martha Angel Castillo, a volunteer with the Tucson May Day Coalition, told Efe.
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