Carey Roberts--The International Marriage Broker Regulation Act of 2005 Is a 'Feminist Hoax'
September 29th, 2007 by Glenn Sacks, MA for Fathers & Families
Background: Some, including former Fox News columnist Wendy McElroy, have criticized the International Marriage Broker Regulation Act of 2005 (IMBRA) for being anti-male.
According to McElroy, "the IMBRA requires American men who wish to correspond with foreign women through private for-profit matchmaking agencies to first provide those businesses with their police records and other personal information to be turned over to the women. Corresponding with a foreigner is legal. Marrying a foreigner is legal....Now American men who wish to pursue a legal activity must release their government files to a foreign business and foreign individuals."
A group has formed to protest the anti-male IMBRA--Online Dating Rights (ODR). The ODR criticizes the IMBRA, and notes "this is the first time in US history criminal background checks have been required for two people to communicate." To learn more, click here.
Men's rights columnist Carey Roberts has an interesting new column on the IMBRA--IMBRA: Anatomy of a Feminist Hoax (MensNewsDaily.com, 9/26/07). Roberts writes:
"[IMBRA opponent] Senator Maria Cantwell of Washington...brandished the notion of “mail-order brides,” casting foreign women as victims of predatory males. Then she dubbed international dating services as “marriage brokers,” conjuring up the image of a rogue operation trading lives for dollars.
"On July 13, 2004 the Senate Foreign Relations Committee scheduled a hearing to air the issue. No dating services or happily-betrothed foreign women were invited to testify -- their comments would not likely fit the script.
"During her testimony, Cantwell made the startling claim that match-making services serve as a nefarious front for international human trafficking. She concluded, “there is a growing epidemic of domestic abuse among couples who meet via international marriage brokers.” As proof of that “epidemic,” she highlighted the cases of three abused women.
"Cantwell’s depiction of comely maidens being seduced into prostitution rings was more than Sen. Sam Brownback could resist, and before long he signed on as a leading co-sponsor of the International Marriage Broker Regulation Act. With liberals and conservatives now on board, IMBRA’s political star was rising.
"But it turns out that Senator Cantwell’s supposition that dating services drag women into a life of sex slavery and indentured servitude was nothing more than a feminist tall-tale.
"There was the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service report that revealed, “less than 1 percent of the abuse cases now being brought to the attention of the INS can be attributed to the mail-order bride industry.”
"A second analysis soberly concluded that foreign brides are “dramatically less likely to be involved in domestic violence as calculated by the Intimate Partner Murder Rate.”
"And earlier this week the Washington Post reported that early estimates of up to 100,000 human trafficking victims being secreted into the United States each year were grossly exaggerated. Despite more than $150 million of taxpayer dollars diverted to a massive search and rescue effort, it turns out the actual number of trafficking victims is closer to 200 annually."
Read Roberts' full column here.
"));
19 queries. 0.334 seconds.
September 29th, 2007 at 2:45 pm
[...] You can read the rest of this blog post by going to the original source, here [...]
September 29th, 2007 at 6:04 pm
Sen Maria Cant(do)well is my beyatch. She is dead wrong on her examples. Two of them were wimmin' who took advantage of men that had more money than brains or looks, and who had plenty of warning signs that all was not well in love-land.
One made the guy buy her folks a TV before she would leave her home country. Both of the wimmin' disappeared into the ethinc community, and ignored their new hubbys as soon as they got to this country. One slept with her clothes on because she was cold.
That one was PG by some countryman when her husband offed her.
Sen. Cant(do)well seems more interest in protecting unknown foreign nationals, instead of her constituents, and other Ewe Ess citizens.
Fie on tham all.
The Geezer has spaketh.
September 29th, 2007 at 6:22 pm
The Tahirih Justice Center is a Baha'i inspired religious organization that was the primary promoter of the International Marriage Broker Regulation Act. Tahirih Justice Center's sexist Director (unfairly) believes that American men who date foreigners are are "often sexual predators, rapists or even pedophiles…many are premeditated torturers". Yet a government study found abuse rates of foreign women who met their husband through the internet at a mere 1%- far lower than the abuse rate for all US couples.
On October 2, Senator Webb (D-VA) will be the keynote speaker for the Tahirih Justice Center Annual funrdraiser. Please call Senator Webb's office on Monday October 1-2 and inquire why he is supporting an organization the Tahirih Justice Center...being their keynote speaker. Please let Senator Webb's staff know that IMBRA is unfair by giving women's groups such as Tahirih the power to determine the conditions by which American men can Communicate with foreign women based upon fabricated lies that All American men are wife beaters and abusers.
Senator Webb can be reached at 202-224-4024 (telephone) or 202-228-6863 (fax)
144 Russell Senate Office Bldg, Wash DC 20510
September 29th, 2007 at 7:50 pm
IMBRA is biased against men. Carey Roberts dilutes his message, however, by blaming the left. This is emotional rubbish. The "Left" had little to do with this radical feminist legislation. Men's rights activism does itself a disservice by speaking primarily to the conservative Right, instead of focusing on correcting institutional anti-male bias. Throwing pot shots at the Left is a good way to stay marginalized.
September 29th, 2007 at 8:49 pm
The Geezer: This isnt an appropriate forum to call a woman a bitch or to use your own stylized grammar and spelling. You seem to have a legitimate point about the issue, could you write it out more clearly in a more standardized form of english and maybe provide some kind of link?
September 30th, 2007 at 8:35 am
Yeah the right is quite nicely anti-male in its own way too. Whereas the right buys into the traditional 'men can take it' attitude where men shouldn't complain about being mistreated for fear of being less manly, while women must be protected at all costs, men should be the ones to suffer. The left generally goes for the 'men are oppressors, women are victims' analogy which is essentially feminist. I notice how both sides portray women as victims, where the right says men are never victims because they should be tough, the left says men are never victims because they are the oppressor class.
Both very, very wrong.
September 30th, 2007 at 9:47 am
Wiki states that there have been only 3 cases of alleged mail order bride murders by American men in the past 10 years.
Curiously, all three cases involve domestic breakups, including one where the woman had sued for and been given temporary custody (and one can only guess what this 26 year old woman was planning to take from her 58 year old husband), one where the woman was in divorce court to terminate her marriage with the man who brought her to the U.S. (while pregnant by another man), and one where the man is claimed to have wanted out of the marriage but allegedly didn't want to pay for the divorce (a seeming logical contradiction?).
To my eyes, it would appear that at least two of these women had their deaths contributed to by the man-looting, man-slave trade which is America's family courts. It would appear that 2 to 3 of these women had discovered all the wonderful powers that women have over men in the U.S., and were in the process of excercising those powers, but had not been warned about the dangers of exploiting men via the exercise of these powers.
What these women didn't realize is the fact that a certain -- and growing -- percentage of men are certain to "snap" when these unconstitutional powers are weilded over them in that American Family Court smack-down of the male gender, and that deadly violence is a common consequence of these men snapping.
These cases exhibit how unconstitutional American Family Court practices are succeeding in getting not just thousands of American women killed, but foreign women as well.
If anyone wants to argue that these men are committing horrible crimes by these acts against women, they are of course correct. But it is also easily observed that these men perceive that horrible crimes were/are being committed against them and/or threatened against them, by the courts with the subject woman being the "straw-woman" plaintiff that our courts need to economically loot and enslave a man.
Americans have, since the founding of our country, risen up against unlawful and inhuman economic abuses of our people, including our men, and that "rising up" process has escalated predictably to violence against the exploiting government.
The last time American men did this, they were rising up against the then existing and "lawful" government administered against them remotely by the British. Now it is being administered against them remotely by Washington, D.C., as well as locally by money- and power-crazed lawyers, judges, state legislators and other government employees.
So maybe the bigger problem is that foreign brides need to be briefed on the fact that the severity of supression and economic exploitation of the male gender by our own government and its quaintly named "family" (sic) courts has gotten so extreme, that they may be in real damage of bodily harm or death at the hands of any male who "snaps" when the woman, whether knowingly or otherwise, makes the male believe that she might be the "straw-woman" who gets used by this system to exploit him.
I can assure you, that many if not most woman from Russia, for example, would fully expect that their own death would in fact be a likely outcome if they ever caused or credibly threatened the same type of man-bone-crushing impacts upon the freedom, income and assets of a Russian man in their own country as our government routinely inflicts upon U.S. men here.
In other words, foreign women need to be warned that our family courts are a cauldron in which millions of families get looted and destroyed, and which directly causes many, many murders in America.
That's the warning these women really need and apparently are not getting.
And not surprisingly, it seems clear from the wiki report on these three cases, that in at least 2 if not all 3, there would have been no "warning" records found on the men in question, even if this unconstitutional IMBRA law were in place. Why?
Because as with most American family court system-induced murders in America, our family court system succeeds in making murders out of men who had no prior record of any violence or crime whatsoever.
Yep, foreign brides definitely deserve a fair warning about America's murderous family courts. They need to be told that dragging an American man in to a U.S. "family" court is increasingly like -- well, like playing Russian Roulette.
October 1st, 2007 at 11:47 am
Here's a simple question that I haven't seen asked:
Does the IMBRA require women who want to talk to foreign men to give the company her criminal background?
If not, then this is a unconstitutional law, and cannot be applied.
October 3rd, 2007 at 2:46 am
Mail order? So, who would have known that such an expedited electronic interface could have accellerated the process by which travelling male "University Professors," "Corporate Executives," and "Insert your profession" are taken advantage of by young foreign women seeking internships in order to escape the oppressive regimes under which they live for the promise of freedom in the U.S. Gee, who could imagine how common this was already? "http://honoluluweekly.com/diary/2007/09/sex-lies-and-denial/"
October 17th, 2009 at 9:45 pm
I've never considered dating or marrying a foreign woman, but now I think I will just to thumb my nose at this piece of ill-conceived, feminist hate legislation. Leave it to the feminists to have the arrogance to tell men who they are allowed to date. If I were a foreign woman, it would be little wonder why so many American men are looking abroad for wives and dates. Why should they stay in a country full of women who think so horribly about them. IMBRA will eventually backfire on the spiteful American feminists. As more and more American men date foreign women, these women will realize that American men aren't the monsters that American feminists portray them to be. IMBRA also exposes feminism for the fraud that it really is. If American men are so violent and so terrible --- which is a central theme of American feminism --- then why do so many women worldwide want to be with them, and once these women are with them, why do they stay with them. The mere fact that marriages between American men and foreign women last, while marriages between American men and American women don't, is proof that the problem is with American women more than American men. Also, it would seem logical for feminists to object to American men marrying foreign women. If more and more American men refuse to marry American women, then how would America's anti male family 'courts' and America's anti male family court 'judges' and all of America's divorce lawyers stay in business? And how could American women be assured of taking men to the cleaners during a divorce. Of coarse American women object to losing this opportunity.