America, the Shame

Immigrants who arrive in the United States of America face many hardships and even more barriers to become citizens of our country. They are desperate to get here and will do anything not to be shipped back to the terrible circumstances they came from.

Unfortunately, here in the USA we take advantage of them and many immigrants who enter are then used for cheap labor and low-paying unrespectable jobs such as housekeeping and fieldwork. The worst part is once they arrive and find work, they'll never make enough money for themselves or their families.

That alone is degrading enough.

Imagine then if you can, you're an immigrant who's trying to get your green card to work in the United States or travel back home to your family but before you can get this green card-someone demands you give them sex.

This disgusting deed is exactly what happened. As reported in the New York Times, an immigrant who has risked their life just to get into this country, was forced to degrade themselves in an unspeakable manner to a despicable man, Isaac R. Baichu, a man who until his arrest worked in our immigration government office for $50,000 a year. Baichu was also an immigrant himself but managed to get a position granting green cards to other immigrants.

He abused this power, to the horror of his victim, a young Columbian woman who recently married a U.S. citizen but whose family were still not citizens. She needed the green card to go back to her home in Columbia to mourn the members of her family who were recently killed. Without her card she wouldn't be allowed back into the U.S..

Baichu knew this immigrant woman's background, including her past brush in with the law when she unknowingly helped in a money-laundering job. Baichu took shameful advantage of this knowledge and met with the young woman privately and then demanded sex from her before he would give her a green card. If she refused, he would deny her the green card and even deport her family back to Columbia.