Back in 2000, Congress did a good thing. It made it possible for undocumented immigrants who were victims of domestic violence to get a special visa -- called "U visa" -- to encourage victims to come forward and get help. It's a pretty smart program, except it has one little problem: Local prosecutors decide whether to process the victim's applications, and some local prosecutors are assholes, like the district attorney for Gaston County, North Carolina, who has the Ultimate Southern DA name of Locke Bell. Mr. Bell decided, all on his own, to reject a U visa application from a
“It was never intended to protect Latinos from Latinos,” Bell said. “It was designed to protect them from high-crime areas.”
No, actually, it was designed to protect victims of domestic violence - that has absolutely nothing to do with whether an area is high crime or not. Rich assholes beat their partners as much as poor assholes do.
Yo, Bell Boy. If you live in a house with a person who may assault on any given day, you live in a high crime area. This bill was exactly designed to protect people like her.
“It was never intended to protect Latinos from Latinos,” Bell said. “It was designed to protect them from high-crime areas.”
No, actually, it was designed to protect victims of domestic violence - that has absolutely nothing to do with whether an area is high crime or not. Rich assholes beat their partners as much as poor assholes do.
"high-crime areas": that's dogwhistle for The Negro, right?
"It is blatant ethnic discrimination that USCIS and federal civil rights officials should have condemned in the strongest terms."
Yeah, yeah… ShouldaWouldaCoulda. Something something Free Market, sincerely held religious belief. Fuck off.
Yo, Bell Boy. If you live in a house with a person who may assault on any given day, you live in a high crime area. This bill was exactly designed to protect people like her.
Shorter Bell: "I'm too lazy to do my job."
Gotta trust me on this: the law specifically drafted to protect those people was never intended to protect those people from those people.
"I'm too racist for my job. Too racist for my job. So racist it hurts." - Lyrics from Bell's new single
It will be interesting to see how quickly DA Bell explains "what he actually meant"...
Is it just me, or is the Wonkette stuffed extra-full of assholes today?
See also: "I'm a political appointee."
You'd think the nightly "oil change" would have cleared out a few of the assholes.
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Relax people, he is just exercising his deeply held religious conviction racial prejudice that brown people should be beaten.
Some Lives Are More Equal Than Others.
Attorney Bell seems way over on the short left side of the Bell Curve.
Hateful schmuck abuses his position to do what?Everybody drink.