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There are many warning signs to being abused in a domestic relationship. In particular, immigrants experience a particular kind of abuse in addition to what others may experience in domestic violence.
Here are some warning signs of immigrant abuse. For a complete list please click here. Learn what makes healthy relationships by clicking here
Issues for Immigrants
- Lies about your immigration status
- Tells you that they have the ability to have your immigration status changed
- Threatens to withdraw/not file the petition to legalize your immigration status
- Tells you that the U.S. will award the children to them
- Tells you that you have abandoned your culture and become "white" or "American"
- Stops subscriptions or destroys newspapers and magazines in your language
- Tells you that U.S. law allows abuse as long as it is in private
- Threatens to report you to INS if you work without a permit
- Takes money you send to your family
- Forces you to sign papers written in a language you do not understand
- Forbids you to learn English or communicate in your native language
- Harasses you at the only job you can work at legally in the U.S. so that you will be forced to work illegally
- Calls you a "mail order bride"
- Alleges you had a history of prostitution on legal papers
- Tells you that U.S. law requires you to have sex whenever he/she wants it
Resource: www.cdh.org
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