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I'm pretty sure overstaying your visa isn't even a crime.

• ianai 4y ago
  Doesn’t matter how it’s treated. People get lured here, have their visas taken from them (sometimes to “pay debt”), and now they’re slaves who will be treated as illegal immigrants and arrested if they go to the police. Problem entirely of our own making.
  • notch898a 4y ago
    If the police are breaking the law then that's another issues. The TVPA gives visas to human trafficking victims and VAWA gives you residency for saying the magic words that your lover/pimp/whatever has abused you.
    • cantSpellSober 4y ago
      Shame Republicans didn't pass comprehensive immigration reform when they had control of both houses under the former administration eh? The president promised a "one-time payment" [1] from Mexico to pay for a border wall believe it or not! https://web.archive.org/web/20161105151917/https://assets.donaldjtrump.com/Pay_for_the_Wall.pdf https://web.archive.org/web/20161105151917/https://assets.do...
      • steponlego 4y ago
        SVT
        • cantSpellSober 4y ago
          wut
  • steponlego 4y ago
    This sounds like an EXTREME corner / edge case. Not typical.
    • cantSpellSober 4y ago
      Nope, it's called human trafficking. Strange you've never heard of it. > This report estimates that, at any given time in 2021, approximately 27.6 million people were in forced labor https://www.state.gov/humantrafficking-about-human-trafficking/ https://www.state.gov/humantrafficking-about-human-trafficki...