CRIME VICTIMS OF ILLEGAL ALIENS 

http://www.immigrationshumancost.org/text/crimevictims.html

There is an enormous number of Americans who have been harmed by the criminals who pass through the nation's open borders. For that reason, this section can only provide a symbolic tribute to the many unnamed victims who have been killed, raped, robbed, crippled and otherwise personally violated.

Today was an interesting day for me. I had a sudden urge to call La Raza, and demand an explanation as to why they call their group "The Race". Which to me seems very racist , to consider your group and those in it the ultimate race. When I called, I was shocked at the response the representative gave me to some of my questions. I tried to ask her why she agrees with the invasion of the south west by illegal mexican immigrants. She explained that it was perfectly acceptable since "my" ancestors were the ones that invaded the land of the indians. So I asked her, "So in your head two wrongs make a right?". The woman basically admitted that the goal of LA RAZA is to invade American territory and seize it. She expressed a sentiment that is tantamount to inciting a revolution! She also went on to explain that the term "La Raza" was first used by a spanish author who used it to describe the people of the South Americas(duh), and explained to me that I was un-educated. I then made it very clear to her that there was another man named Adolf Hitler, who wrote a book called Mein Kampf. And that in the book, he talks about the people of Germany, and how other countries once were their lands that they inhabited. And that this man also called his group and his people "The Race". Her response was to hang up the phone.La Raza is a hate group. A racist hate group...

Contact them, and tell them what you think about their plans to take over the United States..

http://www.nclr.org/section/contactus

Minnesota caters to illegal immigrants and marriage for U.S. residency scams using VAWA laws. My wife Ana Najera is an immigrant from Guatemala who entered the country on a tourist VISA. Before we married, we had a child together. She overstayed her tourist VISA and returned to Guatemala with the baby for 3 months over Christmas and the New Year leaving me in the U.S. to work. She asked for money for liposuction surgery in Guatemala and I gave her funds to travel and to have the liposuction procedure. When she returned, she said we would need to marry for her and the baby to stay in country. We married quickly in the Dakota County court house and the marriage disintegrated from here. I was hesitant about marriage, but I wanted to keep my son in country and tried to build a happy family. However, my wife wasn't in the relationship for "love" like I was. She entered this relationship with ambitions of acquiring U.S. residency and running an import business ( indikohandcrafts.org ) in the U.S. that does not pay taxes and claims to be a fair trade organization.

My wife's family came to visit for a few months and they continually attempted to provoke confrontations between my wife and I. Ultimately, my wife had to assault me by punching me in the neck to get a defensive verbal response from me. I did not hit my wife back or abuse her in any way. I was arrested by the Eagan Police for 5th Degree Domestic assault and spent 3 days in jail for something I didn't do. Two years to date after we had been in country together, my wife made a fraudulent VAWA complaint to expedite her immigration process in lieu of U.S. residency through marriage.

While I was in jail, my wife cleaned out the joint bank account. When I was released from jail, the courts issued an order for protection. I was broke, homeless and sleeping in my car and under my desk at the office. Shortly after,my wife contacted me and asked for me to write a let ter to immigration which stated I was an abusive husband. She said if I wrote the letter in her favor she would work with me to get my home back. Instead of allowing myself to be blackmailed, I wrote immigration and revoked my spousal petition for my wife's U.S. residency and reported all of the facts. I used my last credit card to retain a lawyer to petition for divorce and that was all I could afford. My wife said she was in no hurry to divorce. Being married for two years to acquire conditional residency was a back up plan incase the VAWA complaint to immigration fell through.

The courts later granted my wife all of the marital property before a divorce hearing. They ordered that I surrender a car to my wife that was solely in my name. She demanded $3000 a month in support payments. During the order forprotection hearing, I asked my wife about her employment and academic credentials. She worked as a teacher at a school in Minneapolis called Passport Pals and claimed to have a degree in Psychology. In court and under oath, my wife stated she was a teacher and that she had a degree in Psychology. I challenged her about her academic credentials and she lied with a straight face. I pushed the questioning and she finally admitted to not holding a college degree.

Even though the judge saw that my wife lied under oath, he granted her a one year order for protection. My house recently foreclosed and I am excluded from employment opportunities in my professional field due to having a "criminal" history now. I was charged with 5th degree domestic assault, but I was not found guilty of domestic assault or abuse in a court of law.

A group called Civil Society Helps ( civilsocietyhelps.org ) is now representing my wife and they are still supporting her assault and abuse claims to assist her with expediting her immigration process. They help many immigrant women file false abuse claims under VAWA to assist them with their immigration process. My wife's pro-bono attorney Martha Sullivan ( Civil Society Helps Attorney) even threatened an order for protection against me in the court house lobby when divorce negotiations broke down. I recorded the entire conversation and her threats were completely unwarranted. During another court hearing, I informed the judge of Martha's threats and she laughed in an embarrassed manner and said she was afraid of me (complete nonsense).

I lost everything and I am no longer employable in my field by many corporations due to my "criminal" history. I had no previous criminal history at age 36 and I honorably completed 4 years of U.S. Army service.

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 that didn't love me. In 3 days, I was reduced to living in poverty and was homeless for weeks after being released from jail. With all of this going on, I am going in debt at a rate of $100 a day ($3000 a month) for child support payments. Since June 2007, I have paid over $12,000 in child support payments.. I have attempted to acquire a new employment contract, but have been excluded due to my new criminal history ( 5th degree domestic assault charge - no conviction).

With lies from an immigrant residency seeker and the help of VAWA laws, a stable American citizen can be reduced to living in poverty. All of your assets can be seized and given to the immigrant residency seeker even if you are not found guilty. You will immediately be forced to surrender a portion of your income to the immigrant residency seeker. The courts will order you to turn your motor vehicle over to the immigrant residency seeker even if the car is in your name and the residency seeker does not have a drivers license.

My wife has been confronted by the Eagan Police several times for driving without a license or insurance. On multiple occasions she was just given a warning and she continued to drive my vehicle in Minnesota without a drivers license or insurance.

Later, I spoke with one of the officers that was on scene when I was arrested. Sgt. Mason of the Eagan Police department was going to allow my wife to drive a motor vehicle without a drivers license or insurance while my son was in the car. I called him on it and said it was against the law for anyone to drive a motor vehicle in Minnesota without a license or insurance. Sgt. Mason's partner threatened to arrest me for public disturbance. I did nothing wrong and she (Sgt. Mason's partner) threatened to take me back to jail for disorderly conduct.... They backed off with their threat of arrest when I informed them I had a witness looking on....

Immigrants in Minnesota have more rights and free legal services than American Citizens do. VAWA is completely unconstitutional and clearly provides immigrants with loopholes and fast track plans to acquire U.S. residency under fraudulent pretences.

My wife contacted me several times after the Order for Protection was issued. She always called me an "ABUSER" real slow and sarcastically on the phone. Knowing how groups like the civil society work, I can only imagine how they coached and indoctronated my wife into the liberal feminist movement. Martha Sullivan's order for protection threat was completely uncalled for and demonstrates how this pro-immigration group operates.

Sorry for the rant, but people need to know about these kind of immigration scams. People need to know about the organizations that promote marriage for immigration scams. I may be forced to migrate to another country for a better life. The courts have violated my rights as an American Citizen and I am alienated in my own country. My wife became legal and I became illegal.

Personally, I think that this story is completely ridiculous. It makes obvious the tangible effects of stripping due process rights from immigrants. I feel like the government is acting, in this case, like a school bully terrorizing other kids for their lunch money, or perhaps Tony Soprano minus the moral complexity. The fact that the government is literally stealing a dishwasher's life savings is symbolic of the moral cowardice of this administration.

I can understand why Zapeta didn't wire the money home. I've heard and read about cases where the relatives in the home country, who received money, wound up being victimized and were robbed, especially seeing as they are missing protective family members who are gone while working in the U.S. On another note, is the government also tracking down his employers and giving them a rap on the knuckles or some consequence for 'hiring an illegal?' I seriously doubt it. It is unfortunate that Zapeta’s lack of education and trust of institutions set him up to be wronged. Also, this probably isn’t the first time this has happened to an immigrant.

Zapeta is the poster child for the “illegal immigrant”. He’s a man who entered this country and did backbreaking work for extremely low wages in order to support and build a house for his mother and sisters back in Guatemala. However, officials automatically assumed he got the money from being a drug trafficker. Just exactly how they arrived at that conclusion begs to be explored further. The levels of bigotry and bias in this case are ludicrous and sickening. Why would the government have to begin deportation proceedings if this man had purchased his own plane ticket home? Now the IRS is stepping in and is demanding all unpaid taxes, however it just doesn’t seem logical that the amount of unpaid taxes would equal all of Zapeta’s $59K savings.

This case only supports my point of how the government wants to keep the poor, poor and how they thrive off of seeing people lose."When you are poor, uneducated and illegal, your avenues are cut,"  said Marisol Zequiera, an immigration lawyer.Pedro Zapeta had lived in the U.S. for 11 years without causing any trouble and which is a big plus in my book. It’s not really a big deal that he didn’t know English, the man lived a clean and decent life. We would be so lucky if U.S. parolees and ex-convicts would do the same for ONE year. My heart tells me "give the guy his money and let him go home". But obviously, it's more complicated than that. My solution would be for him to fill out tax returns for the past 11 years. He owes taxes. He used roads, services, etc. The government should be more willing to sit down with him and help him sort this out. Tax the donations, tax the earnings and give him the money that is left and be fair about it. My advice to foreigners aspiring to come to America in hopes of achieving their dreams would be just to stay at home. The United States government will do everything in its power to keep them from doing so. Why else would they rob an honest yet illegal working immigrant of his life savings? It’s a shame that the international reputation of the US government is only worth $59,000.

This blog is really about a person trapped in America, and the debate between whether what he did should be punished.  Mr. Zapeta was trying to get in get out and get home with the money that he made.  He was trying to use the American dream to his advantage for a short while, and then go home.  I think that he is realty at fault here because essentially he was stealing from America.  He may have earned his money legally, but he did not participate like other immigrants in that past have, is providing for the country from which he got his profits.  Sure he did what many do and used American economy to make enough money to provide for himself and his family, but in many ways did so selfishly.  I don’t care that he was trying to build a new home, because in the end he came to this country illegally and broke a rule that I think is part of the American dream.

            I think a large part of the American dream is that while we all try to get ahead, we all contribute with our projects and ideas to the grander picture.  In short, I think that you are wrong to be angry with the U.S. for being angry with Mr. Zapeta.  There have been so many other immigrant groups that have come to the U.S. to settle here, and they have contributed greatly.  Whether it is Italians with the Jacuzzi, or more recently Indians and Chinese as doctors and engineers.  Or the Irish coming and working in our factories.  This man, may be treated inhumanely, but isn’t stealing from another country inhuman?  Since this man was here illegally all of the money he made is illegal money, and should be taken from him.

            The immigrants who chose to stay here are the ones who deserve to be treated better, not a criminal.  The Chinese for example, who came in the 1800s to work on American railroads headed out west deserved better treatment.  Unlike Mr. Zapeta who tried to get his money and run, these Chinese helped to sculpt America.  It is true that they did the work to support their families back in China, but they did this without running back to their country after profits were made.  These Chinese were legal immigrants who were asked to come here to help the economy.  Mr. Zapeta too was trying to provide for his family, but in doing so did not provide for our country.

            Another example of immigrants who played their role in the U.S. is the Irish, taking hundreds of thousands of hard factory jobs in cities all over the U.S.  The Irish were special to sculpting America because as a group that worked mostly in manual labor, they set up many of the Unions that played a large role in providing workers rights for Americans.  For example Terence Powderly of the Knights of Labor and Mary Kenny O’Sullivan of the American Federation of Labor (AFL) were Irish.  Both of these leaders helped to make reforms for workers in America.  Mr. Zapeta did no such thing, and instead took $50,000 out of the hands of hard working Americans.  It may be true that Mr. Zapeta made the money legally, but at what cost to America.  If we constantly talk about fixing our own situations before we go off to help other countries, then we need to make sure that people not attempting to help of the United States do not infiltrate our borders.  The U.S. reaction to Mr. Zapetas actions is fair and hopefully will teach a lesson that if you are not coming to help, don’t come.

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