re: #170 Dark_Falcon

Police should protect someone who claims to have been abused, but given the severity of the charge, and the possibility of the accusation being a cover to obtain a visa, shouldn’t the police interview the accused?

NO:

Undocumented victims already fear calling the police because they risk deportation in doing so. This portion of the bill adds on another level of fear by alerting their abusers that they’ve sought help — under current law, immigrant victims enjoy a right to confidentiality that would be seriously undermined by this bill. Allowing perpetrators of domestic violence to play any role in the deportation or protection of their victims is a cruel fate, but alerting an abuser to a victim’s complaint adds yet another level of emotional abuse on top of the physical abuse that the victim already faces.

Current law provides confidentiality. So we should get rid of that and endanger a victim’s life because god forbid someone, somewhere, might get a visa when they shouldn’t have 9_9