By Bob Parks ——Bio and Archives--June 21, 2010
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A national organization called Legal Momentum has asked a federal court to block implementation of Arizona’s SB 1070 because they feel that immigrant women will be afraid to report abuse for fear of being deported. The “immigration enforcement above all else” model has a particularly brutal impact on immigrant women. Immigrant women often confront an impossible choice: do they risk deportation to report a crime? Or, do they endure abuse and exploitation at the hands of violent partners or opportunistic employers, with sometimes fatal results, in order to stay with their children, and near the only support networks they know? This is, of course, a complete fabrication. SB 1070 would not affect a women going into a police station to report abuse.Fear is usually the backed-into-the-corner, last gasp strategy of progressives. Now, let’s see if it works this time.
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Bob Parks is a is a member/writer of the National Advisory Council of Project 21. Bob’s websites are Black & Right and youtube.com/BlackAndRight