‘People are being targeted, because people know migrants are undocumented and they will not report crimes’
Her employer wanted to report the crime and promised to support her, but Morano was initially reluctant in case she was arrested over her immigration status.
“People are being targeted, because people know [migrants] are undocumented and they will not report [crimes],” she says. He adds: “We have had a number of reports to us of people either being profiled and asked for their documents, because of the colour of their skin.” “We have seen a couple of dozen instances of people deciding not to report incidents to the gardaí because they are concerned that it may also trigger an investigation of their immigration status,” says Nasc chief executive, Fiona Hurley. “No one should be afraid to report a crime committed against them to the gardaí.”
The State has implemented information firewalls before. The Health Service Executive stopped data swaps between itself and immigration authorities, to encourage undocumented people to get vaccinated during the pandemic. The Department of Social Protection took similar steps, which allowed undocumented workers to access unemployment support.
“When the threat of deportation or non-cooperation with immigration permission renewal is so frequently used as a tool of control in abusive relationships, it is unsurprising that some migrant victims of domestic violence fear to report abuse to the gardaí,” she said. “Writing a short and succinct summary of your own experience of abuse is so challenging, even if your first language is English.
She adds that the number of applications “is very unlikely to reflect the numbers of migrant men and women who believe they are trapped in abusive relationships because of their immigration status.”
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