WATCH: Child bride marriage caught on film; US Immigration issued visas to thousands of child brides, spouses under Obama

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“They are subjected to a lifetime of domestic servitude and rape.” Thousands of requests by men to bring in child and adolescent brides to live in the United States were approved over the past decade, according to government data obtained by The Associated Press.

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Government data reveals US Immigration issued visas to thousands of child brides, spouses

As debate rages over US immigration policies, shocking government data reveals that thousands of child brides have been admitted into the country.

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News Corp Australia Network ,January 12, 2019

Thousands of requests by men to bring in child and adolescent brides to live in the United States were approved over the past decade, according to government data obtained by The Associated Press.

In one case, a 49-year-old man applied for admission for a 15-year-old girl. The approvals are legal: The Immigration and Nationality Act does not set minimum age requirements. And in weighing petitions for spouses or fiancees, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services goes by whether the marriage is legal in the home country and then whether the marriage would be legal in the state where the petitioner lives.

But the data raises questions about whether the immigration system may be enabling forced marriage and about how US laws may be compounding the problem despite efforts to limit child and forced marriage.

There were more than 5000 cases of adults petitioning on behalf of minors and nearly 3000 examples of minors seeking to bring in older spouses or fiances, according to the data requested by the Senate Homeland Security Committee in 2017 and compiled into a report.

Some victims of forced marriage say the lure of a US passport combined with lax U.S. marriage laws are partly fuelling the petitions.

“My passport ruined my life,” said Naila Amin, a dual citizen from Pakistan who grew up in New York City.

She was forcibly married at 13 in Pakistan and applied for papers for her 26-year-old husband to come to the country.

“People die to come to America,” she said. “I was a passport to him. They all wanted him here, and that was the way to do it.” Ms Amin, now 29, said she was betrothed to her first cousin Tariq when she was just 8 and he was 21. The petition was eventually terminated after she ran away. She said the ordeal cost her a childhood. She was in and out of foster care and group homes, and it took a while to get her life on track.

“I was a child. I want to know: Why weren’t any red flags raised? Whoever was processing this application, they don’t look at it? They don’t think?” Ms Amin asked.

Naila Amin, 26, was forcibly married at 13 in Pakistan and applied for papers for her 26-year-old husband to come to the country.

Overall, there were 3.5 million petitions received from budget years 2007 through 2017.

Over that period, there were 5556 approvals for those seeking to bring minor spouses or fiancees, and 2926 approvals by minors seeking to bring in older spouses, according to the data. Additionally, there were 204 for minors by minors. Petitions can be filed by US citizens or permanent residents.

In nearly all the cases, the girls were the younger person in the relationship. In 149 instances, the adult was older than 40, and in 28 cases the adult was over 50, the committee found. Among the examples: In 2011, immigration officials approved a 14-year-old’s petition for a 48-year-old spouse in Jamaica. A petition from a 71-year-old man was approved in 2013 for his 17-year-old wife in Guatemala.

State laws generally set 18 as the minimum age for marriage, yet every state allows exceptions. Most states let 16- and 17-year- olds marry if they have parental consent, and several states — including New York, Virginia and Maryland — allow children under 16 to marry with court permission.

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“They are subjected to a lifetime of domestic servitude and rape,” she said. “And the government is not only complicit; they’re stamping this and saying: Go ahead.”

The data was requested in 2017 by Republican Sen. Ron Johnson of Wisconsin, the chairman of the Senate Homeland Security Committee and then-Missouri Sen. Claire McCaskill, the committee’s top Democrat. Mr Johnson said it took a year to get the information, showing there needs to be a better system to track and vet the petitions.

“Our immigration system may unintentionally shield the abuse of women and children,” the senators said in the letter.

The country where most requests came from was Mexico, followed by Pakistan, Jordan, the Dominican Republic and Yemen. Middle Eastern nationals had the highest percentage of overall approved petitions.

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Michael Copeland
Michael Copeland
5 years ago

This is how Western laws and culture are undermined.

mudpuppy6
mudpuppy6
5 years ago

how many Muslims are rubber stamping these requests?

Halal Bacon
Halal Bacon
5 years ago

old shitslam proverb, “incest is best when kept in the family”

felix1999
felix1999
5 years ago
Reply to  Halal Bacon

They are doing their best to imitate the pedophile Mohammad.

Rolland
Rolland
5 years ago

A muslim has a heart attack and passes out. He wakes up on a gurney moving through the hospital. and says, am I in heaven, the nurse replies, no we’re just taking a short cut through the childrens ward.

Achmed Mohandjob
Achmed Mohandjob
5 years ago
Reply to  Rolland

TOO funny!

Suresh
Suresh
5 years ago

And the first Muslim democrat/socialist president imported 200,000 yearly legal and illegal muslims and
deported christians back to ISIS to be slaughtered after they tried to make it to America http://tinyurl.com/mtc3xch

And those who dared to help were threatened to shut up and MSM would not cover it !

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patd
patd
5 years ago
Reply to  Suresh

AMEN!!!!

Goldbug
Goldbug
5 years ago
Reply to  Suresh

No matter whether you like American laws and customs or not .. LEAVE ANYWAY. No more creeping sharia!

knightsstrength
knightsstrength
5 years ago
Reply to  Suresh

We need young Obama

felix1999
felix1999
5 years ago

It’s all perfectly legal too! They are being allowed to PERVERT loopholes. When you have third world people that have nothing in common with western culture, they bring their perversion with them. The Child Abandonment law was sloppily written and also being perverted from the spirit of the law upon which it was written. Do you think the DEMS controlling Congress are going to change that?

CHILD BRIDES IN THE U.S. ARE INCREASING!
Third world people bring third world culture and way of life!

AP NewsBreak: US approved thousands of child bride requests
AP 1/11/91

WASHINGTON (AP) — Thousands of requests by men to bring in child and adolescent brides to live in the United States were approved over the past decade, according to government data obtained by The Associated Press.
…(CHILD ABUSE!)
The approvals are legal: The Immigration and Nationality Act does not set minimum age requirements. And in weighing petitions for spouses or fiancees, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, (USCIS) goes by whether the marriage is legal in the home country and then whether the marriage would be legal in the state where the petitioner lives.

Some victims of forced marriage say the lure of a U.S. passport combined with lax U.S. marriage laws are partly fueling the petitions.

There is a two-step process for obtaining U.S. immigration visas and green cards. Petitions are first considered by USCIS. If granted, they must be approved by the State Department. Overall, there were 3.5 million petitions received from budget years 2007 through 2017.

Over that period, there were 5,556 approvals for those seeking to bring minor spouses or fiancees, and 2,926 approvals by minors seeking to bring in older spouses, according to the data. Additionally, there were 204 for minors by minors. Petitions can be filed by U.S. citizens or permanent residents.

“It indicates a problem. It indicates a loophole that we need to close,” Republican Sen. Ron Johnson of Wisconsin, the chairman of the Senate Homeland Security Committee, told the AP.

In nearly all the cases, the girls were the younger person in the relationship. In 149 instances, the adult was older than 40, and in 28 cases the adult was over 50, the committee found. Among the examples: In 2011, immigration officials approved a 14-year-old’s petition for a 48-year-old spouse in Jamaica. A petition from a 71-year-old man was approved in 2013 for his 17-year-old wife in Guatemala.

USCIS didn’t know how many of the approvals were granted by the State Department, but overall only about 2.6 percent of spousal or fiancee claims are rejected.

The country where most requests came from was Mexico, followed by Pakistan, Jordan, the Dominican Republic and Yemen. Middle Eastern nationals had the highest percentage of overall approved petitions.

https://www.breitbart.com/news/apnewsbreak-us-approved-thousands-of-child-bride-requests/
Bottom line is our immigration laws give third worlders loopholes to bring a 40 year old guy or older and a minor in as a “wife”. It’s ripe for abuse. They can be used for citizenship or sex trafficking too! They often lie about multiple wives and claim they are aunts or sisters. We need to do DNA testing. Muslims and third worlders are incredibly dishonest.

Dorrie - Conservative
Dorrie - Conservative
5 years ago
Reply to  felix1999

The United States should enforce ASSIMILATION into this country. If someone immigrates here, they should be told they can’t stay if they aren’t going to become real Americans.

Graham Bryant
Graham Bryant
5 years ago

Wisdom says that islam muslims overall do not want to assimilate and neither do they respect western law if anyone thinks they will assimilate into western society they are dreaming because they follow the dictate of the quran with fanatical zeal. They consider themselves to be “muslims” not American and neither “American muslims”. islam’s agenda is to take over the whole world because they believe it is their duty according to the quran (instructions from allah) and to do otherwise is in opposing to ‘allah’.

Graham Bryant
Graham Bryant
5 years ago

Mate that is not going to work from the beginning!!

Silver Bullet Gun Oil
Silver Bullet Gun Oil
5 years ago
Reply to  Graham Bryant

Then they can live their miserable lives out in their miserable rathole countries run by miserable rat bast^rds scumbags.Who needs them and their BS anyway.?I dam sure don’t.G’wan,take it on the hop hadji and step the phuck off..

Dorrie - Conservative
Dorrie - Conservative
5 years ago
Reply to  Graham Bryant

It certainly worked under past administrations! And I’m not your mate.

felix1999
felix1999
5 years ago

I agree but our laws let them not assimilate or require them to adopt our standards.
Other laws like polygamy are not enforced. By default we are becoming lawless!

Tm.
Tm.
5 years ago
Reply to  felix1999

Our dear former President Theodore Roosevelt is turning in his grave.
Ah, the precious words of wisdom uttered by our forefathers, and by Patriots who understood, and had a higher calling. They who cared for their country, and the future for our descendants, who aspired to be a good example to others.
I feel I am a stranger in a strange land, indeed, that this is the case everywhere, so that there is no sanity left anywhere.

Tm.
Tm.
5 years ago
Reply to  felix1999

The implementation of immigration rules and regulations that are just and proper, that are decent, and with respect for all, and especially the host country, is imperative.
The West has been docilized over the decades, by the liberal party, whose name we know.
It has done little good for us, and, as some say, has destroyed life as we knew it. If something good, something proper and uplifting, cannot be admitted, then what is the purpose of the admittance?
It is all so discouraging, and deflates one’s attempts, at a positive consideration of the world.

Jay Wizzy
Jay Wizzy
5 years ago

To that comes the illegitimate censorship of Non-muhammadists by Muhammadism-promoting social media, media & education-institutions patronized by Trump.
& recently a USA-court declared the ban on the lifelong torture of clitodirectomy unconstitutional.

Ransom Davidson
Ransom Davidson
5 years ago

This is outrageous and proof that our government is corrupt and allowing pedophilia/child rape to take place within what is supposed to be a free country for all; children and adults alike. Our laws are ones that all should have to abide by once they live here with no exceptions for other cultures/practices that conflict with those laws. No doubt many politicians and others in positions of authority within this country are closet pedophiles themselves though, so no wonder this is going on. And I am sure CAIR and other Muslim organizations within this country are also behind the lax immigration laws/loopholes that lead to this obvious evil and crime against humanity. This needs to be stopped ASAP and at all costs by changes to the immigration laws, period. ????

patd
patd
5 years ago

And not one ignorant libturd dumocrap will complain about the treatment of these children…can’t fix STUPID with criminal libturds!

David Square
David Square
5 years ago

Why do the followers of the fake god Allah insist on migrating to countries such as the US and Canada when they can enjoy the perfection of Islam at home? Is their some flaw in Islam which they are not telling us?

Graham Bryant
Graham Bryant
5 years ago
Reply to  David Square

No they want to take over all the world with islam that means that all will be muslim-full-stop!! This is what is in their hearts!! But the Lord God is watching and has appointed a day of wrath …for islam!!

felix1999
felix1999
5 years ago
Reply to  David Square

The goal of Islam has always been world domination. Shifting Muslims around as “refugees” and migrants spreads it to the west. The U.N. Migration Pact and other organizations are helping to make that to happen. They cater to Muslims and let Christians and others be slaughtered.
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spudmans1
spudmans1
5 years ago
Reply to  David Square

Obviously they come here because of the free stuff our liberal government bestows upon these Neanderthals.

Clem Jackson
Clem Jackson
5 years ago

Sadly the first amendment allows this and any other practice to go on without question in the USA. Unfortunately when Thomas Jefferson wrote it, he could not have forseen the effects on Amerca from the repugnant and destructive ideologies of islam.

Alleged-Comment
Alleged-Comment
5 years ago

The past decade??? That means during the reign of that SICK sodomite. The Negro obama.

Tm.
Tm.
5 years ago

This news is shocking and disgusting. What is more egregious is that the US, like other Western countries, has turned a blind eye to this sustained, dehumanizing abuse.
Freedom is precious. That God will judge, those who directly or indirectly, tamper with, or negate, the freedom of others.

Frank
Frank
5 years ago

End dual citizenship

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