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Toledo Adult Entertainment: Unique seminar for social workers examines plight of the undocumented
June 22, 2010 | | Leave a Comment
Several members of the audience brought up the issues of sexual
assaults upon the immigrants as well as how easily the
undocumented can be preyed upon by human slave traffickers.
Jessica Ramos,
who is an AmeriCorps attorney with ABLE, presented an
informative overview of immigrants in the United States. She
presented a brief history of immigration including the often
shameful treatment of Asians by repressive immigration laws
including the Chinese Exclusion Act, which was in effect
from 1882 until 1943.
The main lesson here is that immigration bias is still very much
a fact of life. As she pointed out, those who are HIV positive
or have AIDS were barred from the United States until only
January of this year.
She also discussed the various designations which were used
beginning in 1875 to restrict immigration by prostitutes,
polygamists, those convicted of “misdemeanor involving moral
turpitude,” those judged to be anarchists and political
extremists, illiterates, and “lunatics.”
See the full article from “La Prensa”