Raped & deported?

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Originally Posted by Andrew NDB

That's arguably worse. At least the guy sneaking over the border isn't being fraudulent.

Arguably worse is right.

People will inevitably choose the path of least resistance.
Come to Boston. Know why the roads don't make sense? It wasn't cows, it was people cutting corners in order to get somewhere faster.

Same thing here.
It's easier to stay here on an expired visa than it is to try and keep up with the paper work, because our system is inefficient, and worse than that: it's expensive.
My ex has three degrees (BA, MA, PhD) and couldn't find a job that would foot the bill of her paperwork, so when her student visa expired she went home.

But no one in power is going to fix it, because currently we've got xenophobic jingoistic yokels driving the bus, and any Immigration Reform package is far too easily spun into "Let'em All In!"

So you get what happened here:
A woman was brutalized and was brave enough to come forward, only to be threatened into silence.