Immigrant domestic violence victims face many barriers to getting help

WCVB.COM ^ | 16 JANUARY 2016 | CHRIS BURRELL

[Extremely Extreme Extremist]

For months, Patricia Frois feared her boyfriend and tried to escape a violent and increasingly threatening relationship.

By the time police knew there was a problem, Frois, 24, a Brazilian immigrant living and working in Marshfield in 2011, lay dying in the hallway of an apartment building on Plain Street, stabbed 10 times with a kitchen knife by her ex-boyfriend.

A Plymouth County jury convicted her killer in October in a case that illustrates what domestic violence advocates have known for some time, that immigrants in Massachusetts face a higher risk of being killed by their abusers than those born here.

[2ndDivisionVet]

Maybe they shouldn’t leave and sneak into our country. Or is that racist?

[E. Pluribus Unum]

Go home and get help there.

[Mears]

The more I read abut how bad it is here in the U.S.A. the more I wonder why anyone would want to come here.

I am sooooo sick of it.

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[angry elephant]

Of course there is more violence. Illegal immigrants have their illegal boyfriends and they will behave in the fashion to which they are accustomed. Illegal and often violent.

[Mastador1]

The more I read abut how bad it is here in the U.S.A. the more I wonder why anyone would want to come here.

You left out and then try to change America into the place they left!

[GnuThere]

These days, I guess that means we stop all aid to American domestic violence victims, and channel it to the immigrants?

[Vendome]

Compared to???

[Gay State Conservative]

My first question for such women is "are you here legally?" If the answer is "no" we should ensure that they're never again abused here in the US by DEPORTING them.