Office of Justice Programs, Bureau of Justice Statistics, Special Report. A six-session video curriculum looking at the immigration issues and a Christian response. I can take our kids from you, I can get the Migra to send you back to Mexico, and you will never see our boys again. He then slapped her, pushed her against the wall and threatened to kill her if she called the police. In the eleven months I have lived in the Rio Grande Valley, Texas, at least three women have been murdered by their husbands.
Domestic violence is a serious problem that crosses racial, economic and religious boundaries.
I n 1994, President Clinton signed into law the Violence Against Women Act, with a provision under Immigration law for battered spouses and their children. Normally, a U.S. citizen or legal resident spouse would apply for the legal status of his or her family members, but this control over a person's legal status is inevitably abused in any relationship where the husband and wife are on unequal footing. And while woman are also recognized as potential batterers, the overwhelming number of reported abusers are male. Domestic violence is a serious problem that crosses racial, economic and religious boundaries. She has been in the United States for more than a dozen years.