Each year the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA) and similar federal laws funnel $1 billion to help abused and battered women – or so we are led to believe. A good part of that money goes to immigrants who claim to be victims of domestic violence.
Last Fall I wrote a three-part exposé that revealed how an immigrant woman’s restraining order becomes a “gold-plated meal ticket that entitles her to preferential treatment by immigration authorities, free legal services, and a generous helping of welfare services.”
One woman whose father had been falsely accused of abuse and forced from his home wrote me, “I believe the Violence Against Women Act should be called the ‘Women Get What They Want Act.’” [www.renewamerica.us/columns/roberts/070912]
Following those columns I received an unending stream of horror stories from persons falsely accused of domestic violence. One came from Sean Moffett of St. Paul, Minn. whose wife is from Guatemala. Soon after the wedding he discovered to his dismay that her real aim was different from what she had pledged in her wedding vows.
This is his story:
My wife’s family came to visit for a few months and they repeatedly attempted to provoke confrontations between my wife and me. Ultimately, my wife assaulted me by punching me in the neck. I did not hit my wife back or abuse her in any way.
I was arrested for 5th Degree Domestic Assault and spent three days in jail for a crime I did not commit and for not leaving my home under duress. While I was behind bars, my wife cleaned out the joint bank account.
I later learned that a legal aide group called Civil Society Helps had assisted with my wife’s abuse claims to expedite her immigration application. This outfit helps many immigrant women to file false abuse claims under the Violence Against Women Act.
Shortly after my release from jail, my wife asked me to write a letter to immigration stating I was an abusive husband. She promised if I wrote the letter she would help me get my home back.
Instead of allowing myself to be blackmailed, I wrote the Citizenship and Immigration Service to withdraw the petition for my wife’s U.S. residency. I used my last credit card to retain a lawyer to petition for divorce. At that point I was broke, homeless, and sleeping in my car and under my desk at the office.
The courts later granted my wife all of the marital property and ordered that I surrender to her a car that was titled in my name. To add insult to injury, the judge granted her a one year Order for Protection.
She then telephoned me several times, calling me an “ABUSER” real slow and sarcastically. Knowing how groups like the Civil Society work, I can only imagine how they coached my wife.
Several times my wife has been confronted by the Eagan, Minn. police for driving without a license. She was repeatedly given a warning, yet continued to drive the vehicle.
Later, I spoke with one of the officers and reminded him it is against the law for anyone to drive a motor vehicle without a license or insurance. His partner threatened to arrest me for allegedly creating a public disturbance. But I had done nothing wrong and they backed off when I informed them I had a witness looking on.
Last year I earned a very high salary, lived in a house by a lake, and enjoyed life as much as I could with a wife who didn’t love me. At age 36 I had no previous criminal history and had honorably completed four years of U.S. military service.
In three days, I was reduced to living in poverty and was homeless for weeks. I am no longer employable in my field due to my “criminal” history — 5th degree domestic assault with no conviction. My house was recently foreclosed and I have lost everything.
Thanks to our VAWA laws and a series of outright lies by an immigrant residency-seeker, a law-abiding American citizen can be left penniless. All of your assets can be seized and given to the immigrant even if you are innocent of the charges.
The courts have violated my rights as an American citizen and I am alienated in my own country.
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firstpatriotdad said,
Just a thought.
February 22, 2008 at 8:42 am
Big shooter said,
February 22, 2008 at 10:14 am
The Vicar said,
I know things seem bad now, but you will bounce back and have it better than before.
I have always said it is so easy to get in jail in this country and wondered what’s wrong with this picture.
Things weren’t in such a mess when I was growing up, so something has changed and not for the better it seems.
Most folks grow up believing that the police and the courts systems are fair, but unless you have had an experience like this fellow you won’t know what it’s really like.
His in not an isolated case, it’s how it really is. Sad, but true.
February 22, 2008 at 10:32 am
Ouderkirk said,
Having seen this article before, it should be pointed out that the now ex-wife in this story was an illegal immigrant prior to the marriage. Hence she literally had nothing, and everything to gain. Make no mistakes, when she was on her back…the meter was running.
Do you think for a moment that President Hillary and Speaker Pelosi will make things better.
President Hillary, Speaker Pelosi and Majority Leader Feinstein will implement a new era of Jim Crow against men.
February 22, 2008 at 11:57 am
fourthwire said,
Police have been “trained” through VAWA-provided taxpayers’ dollars.
Men are forced to fund the destruction of their own lives.
It’s not safe for men to marry - even foreign nationals.
Thank the feminazis and those Congressional members who voted UNAMIMOUSLY for VAWA for helping to bring about legalized theft from men, their incarceration based on the words of lying women.
And thank those miserable scumbags who defend feminism and chivalry for making life unnecessarily dangerous for men who marry or cohabit……
February 22, 2008 at 1:06 pm
mruffolo said,
It’s not the woman’s fault so much as it’s the government’s fault. The government creates and enforces laws, policies, and procedures that the women leverage to their advantage. Most women are gaming the system for financial gain. Some guys may do the same.
In most westernized countries, legally innocent men lose their wife, kids, property, eighteen years of income, and certain liberties, because of unilateral, no-fault divorce in an unjust family court.
It’s not if your wife divorces you, it’s when.
Application: If you’re not married, do not marry. If you’re married, do not share financial information, and never have joint ownership - place the asset in your parent’s name).
February 22, 2008 at 2:43 pm
fourthwire said,
I beg to disagree, mrruffalo.
Men are being financially raped, thrown out of their own homes because WOMEN are self-centered and egotistical enough to invoke the power of their gynocracy, not to mention their superior civil, criminal, and social rights to do so.
Our government(s) are enablers for them to do so.
Just how many women are complaining that the government has provided them with TOO MUCH POWER to destroy men’s lives?
Close enough to zero as not to matter……..
Women are responsible for their own acts of misandry.
Chivalrists and vaginized males are responsible for enabling that misandry.
The government will pass laws and pressure judicial systems into continuing to allow women to financially rape their husbands, have them thrown out of their own homes, and have them incarcerated.
February 22, 2008 at 6:05 pm
Ouderkirk said,
As I said, never marry down. Always marry equal or up or stay single.
For those intrepid wife seekers,
1) Check her family history. If she’s from a divorced family, then she’s clearly more disposed to seeing that as an option. That includes her siblings male or female. You may want to include friends in that scrutiny. Be vigilant about the status of her friends.
2) Make sure she has assets equivalent to your own. Thus she is less likely to willing to make demands for half of yours because you can get half of hers.
3) Always have the vehicle she drives titled to her. The vehicles you drive titled to you. Same for insurance.
4) Maintain separate checking accounts. NEVER, EVER, COMINGLE FINANCES. Your paycheck goes to your checking account. Her paycheck goes to hers.
5) Make the beneficiaries of life insurance policies, pensions, and the like your children.
6) Never marry a woman who has illegitimate children. Never agree to adopt said children if you are foolish enough to marry her. But such women will never make it past criterion #2.
February 22, 2008 at 9:25 pm
poiuyt said,
Ergo middleclass jobs, professional work, political office and public leadreship positions etc, are worth more to males in this society than the dignity, honour and standing of their fellow male citizens ?
We do ourselves down as male at every opportunity TMOTS.
February 24, 2008 at 1:24 am
TheManOnTheStreet said,
Sadly, yes Poiuyt. I liken it to the anti-smoking folks…. they have no issue with instilling policies to “protect themselves from the evils of smoking” by infringing upon the rights of smokers (I know I know.. an argument could be made but…). If you do not like the smoke, go else where! Gawd forbid! Nope, it’s about power and control. You must change to my liken… not the otherway around.
The problems arise when the next rediculous anti- comes along, and it now affects them, they piss and moan. What’s the newest? A proposed law that would allow someone to be refused service just for being fat. Not obease as defined by the AMA, just what the restauranteur ‘feels’ is fat.
Now this fat person will scream until the cows come home… “they have no right to instill their beliefs upon me!” Oh, and by the way, this is more than likely the same person that was all for the ban on smoking instead of separate areas or allowing the business to make their own decisions…. So, now that the “protect the innocent folks from themselves and others laws” infringe upon THEIR rights, NOW! they have an issue with it….
Again, essentially, these policy makers (yes, mostly men) cow-tow to the demand for policies of lobbiest because the laws will not have any adverse affect on them…. Or so they think. So they really don’t care. As long as it garners them the voting block to win. Nifong anyone?
Then the shit hits the fan, and they find themselves in the position of and all of a sudden, the lightbulb goes on and they realise that that law (or policy/action) that got them into office (see nifong again) turns against him and he is toast.
Anyhow, I digress… significantly…
TMOTS
February 24, 2008 at 10:36 am
mruffolo said,
The government rewards a woman to divorce, initiated by no-fault, unilateral rules established by our government.
After a ten minute hearing, a government employee, a judge, gives the woman your children, eighteen years of tax free income from you, and most of your property. And in case you are disagreeable with this new arrangement, then a two year long order of protection is placed against you.
Change the rules and or leadership, and I expect behavior will change. For example, if women do not automatically get the children, money and assets, but instead get nothing, then we may expect the approximate 75% woman initiate statistic to drop significantly.
February 25, 2008 at 3:57 pm
mruffolo said,
http://www.usaimmigrationattorney.com/MarriageLongevityRates.html
The divorce rate in Peru is about 1.4%; 0.5% in Chile; 3.7% in Brazil; and 2.5% in Ecuador. In these countries divorce is bi-lateral (both parties agree).
http://www.zonalatina.com/Zldata308.htm
America’s divorce rate is about 50%. America’s divorce is unilateral (one parties decides).
http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/divorce.htm
February 25, 2008 at 4:15 pm