Another immigration issue concerns battered women who are immigrants (Constable, 2012). [40] When women are beaten or otherwise abused by their husbands or boyfriends, it is often difficult for them to leave their abusers (see ). But abused immigrant women face a special problem in this regard. Because often they are allowed to live in the United States only because their husbands are legal residents or citizens, they fear deportation if they go to the police and their husband is deported. Other abused immigrant women who are in the United States illegally similarly fear they will be deported if they go to the police. Fortunately, federal law now allows abused immigrant women to apply for legal residency, but many women are not aware of this possibility.
Although our discussion of immigration has painted a critical portrait of many aspects of US immigration policy, the United States actually ranks fairly high among the world’s nations in how it treats its immigrants. The box discusses this international comparison in greater detail.
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