Immigration Status: David Crary and Violence Hotline

immigration status: The National Domestic Violence Hotline, established by Congress in 1996 and partly reliant on federal funding, says in its newly released annual report that it responded to 323,660 phone calls, texts and online contacts in 2016, according to Toronto Star. Of these calls, 7,053 evoked immigration-related issues up nearly 30 per cent from 2015. MEGAN MILLER / NYT By David Crary The Associated Press Mon., May 8, 2017 NEW YORK The nation's most prominent domestic violence hotline reports a sharp increase in calls from abuse victims struggling with issues related to their immigration status. Katie Ray-Jones, the hotline's CEO, said many of the callers were not U.S. citizens and were warned by their abusers that they and their families would be deported if the abuse was reported to the police. Ray-Jones said the surge in immigration-related calls became noticeable in mid-2016 at a time when Donald Trump was clinching the Republican presidential nomination and the GOP platform was echoing his calls for tough enforcement of immigration laws. In some cases, she said, the abusers had threatened to call federal immigration authorities. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.