From Pandagon, some fucked-up shit:
ATLANTA — Emelina Ramirez called police to tell them her roommates were attacking her, punching and kicking her in the stomach. When the police arrived, they handcuffed her, took her to jail and ran her fingerprints through a federal database. She is now in an Alabama cell awaiting deportation.
Did they check and see if she was OK first? I could find no evidence in the story the police did. And it gets better:
Ramirez, 30, was three months' pregnant in June when, she says, her roommates attacked her. The Carrollton police officer who arrested her did not speak Spanish. He charged her with simple battery and took her to jail.
Justice, my ass. This looks like a really screwed-up sense of priorities to me: Racism and faux "national security" over the health of a pregnant woman.
But it gets better still. From Xicanopwr:
After further investigation, it seems like this is the case for Emelina. According to an old Google cache from Congress.org, from Congress.org, it appears that she was previously married to an US Citizen who abused her. Ironically, her former husband happens to be police officer. During their marriage, they never had her immigration status adjusted. The marriage ended in a divorce because he was an abusive towards her. Since her divorce, she is still stigmatized and branded as an “illegal.”
Yup. Racism in the United States is a thing of the past. Just like patriarchy.
Turns out that the original police officer is acting under a new Georgia law that instructs local officers to enforce federal immigration laws. That makes this institutionalized injustice rather than just personal.
And don't go pulling that "but she is illegal!" crap. She's still a human being, and if that doesn't trump her location on this planet, then you've got some thinking to do.
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This was not her second offense of being deported.
When she came into the country via Texas, she was apprehended and instructed to return for an Immigration Hearing in a month. She had continued on to Georgia and could not afford, financially to return to Texas to appear. A order of deportation was issued. Fast forward approx. 1 year....
She married a police officer from Carrollton, GA who, instead of obtaining an attorney and getting her legal status straightened out, held her status over her head, and was abusive towards her. He is the father of her youngest US born child. After about a year and a half of abuse, and aid from a womans shelter, she obtained a divorce from the abusive cop, and thanks to him, remains "undocumented". Fast forward another year....
She is attacked by 3 roommates, 2 women and one male. The police arrest her and one of the other women, and at the initial bond hearing, the judge lets the other women, who is hispanic, but speaks good english, out / off.
Emelina was remanded into the custody of ICE because when she was fingerprinted, the old existing order of deportation came up.
The truly sad part in all of this, is the chidren, 8 yr. old Wendy, and 3 yr. old Karla. They are the ones who are suffering the most.
Karlas' father has not paid child support in I don't know how long, nor has he made any attempt to see his daughter, and now the girls are without their mother because she was attacked and had Wendy call 911 and report it.
Yes, Emelina Ramirez Bojorquez is pregnant again, by a man that she met and truly made her happy, whole and complete for the first time since I've known her, but that is another story.
Emelina and her girls don't deserve this regardless of her Immigration Status. If her x-husband had of done the right thing, she would be legal, and what of her US Citizen daughter?
The kids world has already been ripped apart, their hearts torn out, they just want AND NEED their mother back.
Most of the information regarding Emelina can be found here:
> http://www.thesqueakywheel.com/complaints/2007/JUN/complaint14800.cfm and
> by following the links
> at the bottom of the complaint. You may also get info from:
> http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-deport29jul29,1,147... ,
> http://www.atlantalatino.com/detail.php?id=7732 ,
> http://www.cbs46.com:80/video/13560651/index.html ,
> http://www.mundohispanico.com/locales/content/locales/articulos/0705_art...
US Constitution / 14th Amendment: “…nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.”
Also note that Under the new Georgia law SB 529, it requires that a person booked into jail on a felony or DUI charge be verified for lawful status in the United States. Emelina was not booked on a felony, she was booked on domestic violence. Also, Immigration and Customs Enforcement will put a hold, not to extend beyond 48-hours, on any person of interest, but Emelina was held for 2 weeks in Carrollton before ICE took custody and moved her to Alabama.
We have an attorney for her and her attorney is looking at the Violence Against Women Act angle. The problem with that is the proof. Remember, her x-husband was a cop and therefore she did not call the cops for help. We do however have a couple of witnesses that witnesses various acts against her, like when he threw her and their daughter out of the car for example. But we still don't know if that will be enough without police reports to back it up. Catch 22 unfortunately.
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