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Crime Victim Visa Illusory?

By immigrationprof

AP’s Any Taxin reports that a 2000 federal law promised visas to undocumented crime victims if they helped police catch their attackers. Accodring to data provided by U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, more than 13,000 people took the government’s offer but so far only 65 — just 0.5 percent — have gotten their reward. igrant advocates. “There’s no rational reason why it should take the federal government eight years to implement a law other than there’s a callous disregard for the rights of crime victims Congress intended to benefit for cooperating with law enforcement,” said Peter Schey, executive director of the Center for Human Rights and Constitutional Law in Los Angeles.

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