Violence Against Women Act

Attorney Barraza, who is leading one at least two group lawsuits against Lozano, says his lawsuit alleges she set up an industrial-scale operation, creating fake stories of domestic abuse and human trafficking to apply for humanitarian visas that her clients allegedly didn't qualify for or know were being filed on their behalf.

You don't have to leave the country, so the T Visa and Violence Against Women Act, VAV, VAWA petition are very popular for people to avoid having to leave, and she focused on those so she could charge more money, Barraza said.

Angelina said she had no idea Lozano's office had filed a domestic violence petition for her husband.

She said that the attorney didn't say they were going to file it under that, and they just had her sign, Diana Gracia said.

Exactly.

And similarly, in the Morrison case, Congress passed the Violence Against Women Act, providing a federal civil remedy for victims of gender-motivated violence.

Which is obviously a horrible problem.

Yes, and the government presented mountains of data showing how gender-based violence costs the national economy billions in healthcare and lost productivity, but the Court again struck it down.

The court doubled down on this non-economic limit five years later in US v. Morrison.

Congress had passed the Violence Against Women Act, which provided a federal civil remedy for victims of gender-motivated violence.

Congress had actually learned from Lopez and compiled a massive legislative record mountains of data proving that gender-motivated violence costs the national economy billions of dollars annually.

But the court struck it down anyway.

Moving forward, jumping eight years forward to 1994, there were a couple of sort of parallel things that happened under this Venus retrograde in Scorpio that were tough but important.

One of them was the landmark Violence Against Women Act was signed into law at this time, and one of the primary senators who was, like, promoting it at this time was, uh, a younger Joe Biden, who had not just a, a stellium in the sign of Scorpio but also was born with Venus in Scorpio.

And this event kind of dovetailed with another one that was taking place in the media at the same time, which is that, uh, during the course of that Venus retrograde, jury, the jury selection process began for the OJ Simpson trial.

And, um, there was a lot of national discussions that were taking place about, like, domestic violence and, and abuse and different things like that that were sort of, like, really dominating the media headlines during the course of this Venus retrograde in Scorpio.

And OJ Simpson later was famously, like, acquitted but then, um, found guilty in a civil trial, I believe, for murdering his wife, um, Nicole Simpson or Nicole Brown Simpson.

So that was a tough one, but it gives you an idea of some of the themes that can sometimes come up during some of these Venus retrogrades, and sometimes there's difficult things, but then al- also sometimes there's progress, like the passage of this, um, Violence Against Women Act, which was pretty landmark at the time.

Of course, there's other parallel things 'cause also issues of, like, like racism with, with the police came up during the course of the OJ Simpson trial.

And that's another t- topic in terms of, um, raci- racism and issues surrounding it coming up sometimes during Venus retrograde in Scorpio that I'll talk about, I think, in, in one of the next sections.

The whole domestic violence thing is, too.

The reason that the civil rights remedy of the Violence Against Women Act was overturned is because the federal court could not conceive of a world-

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Before joining the organization, she spent over four years at the Galveston Houston Immigrant Representation Project, where she represented detained immigrant clients in removal proceedings and litigated before federal districts and appellate courts, including the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals and the Board of Immigration Appeals.

Throughout her career in immigration law, Rebecca has handled a broad range of immigration matters, including asylum, VAWA, self petitions, U visas and DACA applications.

We're so excited to hear what they have to share with us today.

So I'm now going to turn it over to them.