Survey of 800 Latinos in the USA show that over know a victim of domestic violence and one in four know a victim of sexual assault. Latinas don’t report the violence they’ve endured to police due to fear of being deported.
http://fusion.net/story/123523/fear-of-deportation-prevents-many-latina-women-from-reporting-abuse-new-survey-finds/?utm_content=buffer475bc&utm_medium=social&utm_source=plus.google.com&utm_campaign=buffer//cdn.embedly.com/widgets/platform.js
How awful. A sad, clear example of how racist policies negatively hurt communities, families, women at personal level.
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Well put Meghan McDonald.
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