U.S. Agency Tightens Immigration Rules To Spotlight Child Marriage

[steve from amherst]

The Department of Homeland Security has announced new guidelines to track child marriages among immigrants in the United States.

While debates on immigration have focused on national security, and President Trump's determination to build a wall along the southern border has resulted in a national emergency declaration, the new rules address a far lesser known immigration issue.

Under the Immigration and Nationality Act, there is no minimum age requirement for a person to request or benefit from visa applications in which spouses or fiancées are minors.

Friday's policy shift is meant to "emphasize that a marriage involving a minor warrants special attention," a U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services spokesperson told NPR.Officers will now have to consider how old the petitioner and beneficiary were when they wed and whether it violated the law where the wedding took place, the agency said in a statement. Adjudicators will also have to consider what the law dictates in the

More than 8,600 approved visa petitions for spouses or fiancées between 2007 and 2017 involved a child, according to a women's advocacy group called Unchained At Last. In 95 percent of those cases, the organization says, the minor was a girl.

While immigration debates have focused on the need to secure the southern border, immigrants themselves are but a small piece of the United States' child marriage problem, a piece that could easily be fixed by setting an age requirement on spousal and fiancée visa petitions, founder and executive director Fraidy Reiss tells NPR.

U.S. state where the couple plans to reside.

 

 

[Zambroski]

The left will lose their minds!  If there’s grass on the field....play ball!!!!  Child abusers and rapists have rights too!

.....and Allahu Akbar!!!

[Mainecat]

Boogey boogey

[ActionfigureJoe]

Thomas Jefferson was ballin his 12 year old slave girl. 

[Ez ryder]

true but back then the life expectancy of a human was around 40 they played by a diff calendar.  

 

[FrankieJames7]

13 hours ago, Ez ryder said:

true but back then the life expectancy of a human was around 40 they played by a diff calendar.  

 

No excuses cod nerd