Women and Children Are Facing Abuse All

Women and children are facing abuse all over the world, astonishingly, in countries where rights against abuse are more pronounced than in any other country. We are going to take the case of the abuse of immigrant women and children, mainly those who struggle to get into the United States of America through the Mexican border.

It's only in the 21st century that we have to come to notice the rapid increase of women and children immigrants moving out for job opportunities.

Men, usually get work as laborers in industries of some kind while the women or children have to do odd and low jobs just to make ends meet and earn enough money to send or take back to their family. They usually find work as hired help in places like Grande valley, El Paso, San Diego, and Beverly Hills. (Jane Juffer, 1988)

Furthermore, women face daily harassments by the hands of border patrol officials and even coyotes, those that have connections to get illegal entrance of immigrants into the country. These authoritarians don't only harass these underprivileged women and children physically but they horde and steal whatever amount of money they have on them. (Jane Juffer, 1988)

In addition, these people use their authoritative power "to teach a lesson" to those that dare to revolt or say anything against them by doing a little more than harassing or stealing, they lock them up for days without any real reason for arrest in conditions of utter filth and "Complete squalor, squeezed among 600 people in a jail built to hold 250." (Jane Juffer, 1988)

These abused victim, nine out of ten times, do not report their charges due to their illegal immigrant status, they fear deportation and unemployment in the face of their responsibility of providing "bread and butter" for their families. They stay silenced so that they are not forced to leave their provisional zone, and the abusers aware of this fact feel that these immigrants are more accessible for assault.

Another reason behind their silence is the embarrassment and humiliation they have to feel in front of their families due to the intrusion of the police and the exposure of their disgraceful misfortune. Unaware of their own rights, these victims fear augmented aggravation and loss of their only means of survival i.e. their jobs. (Tony Kennedy, 2004)

Those immigrants that are fortunate enough to find a job in the city are very rarely treated right or fair by their employers, which traps them further in the fences of helplessness. (Jane Juffer, 1988)

However, all is not lost for the illegal aliens as many new initiatives have been launched, both by the government and the private sector, which will greatly assist in stopping the abuse on illegal immigrants. Miller and Carol Arthur, executive director for the Domestic Abuse Project, have initiated a grant program which will offer legal advice and know how on the ways of the justice system to the victims and provide them with "advocacy services and legal help even if there is no arrest or criminal prosecution of their abusers." (Tony Kennedy, 2004)