> Asian countries legal systems laws and interpretations are very much
> different from Justice System of this country. It takes several years
> for these new commers to understand the highly legalized and
> complicated justice system of their new countries. These immigrants
> were never exposed to these laws and their interpretations. Some of
> them happen to know about these laws when they have already broke the
> law and it is too late for them. Some of them are killed while doing
> something very common in their countries such as crossing a road
> (expressway here), knocking someone's door for directions(considered
> trespassing and threat to someone's life here). Other day to day laws
> like parking, buying, selling and everything else. It would be highly
> unjustified for the justice system to treat them as citizens who have
> lived and exposed to this system since their birth. It would be very
> much unjust to penalize these immigrants for breaking laws when they
> have no such knowledge of these laws and when they were not exposed to
> this system in the past and when they were not provided any laws
> training when they arrived to their new country. We need programs to
> educate them to allow them become responsible citizens.
They only need to know one thing: "Ignorance of the law is no excuse and
never will be."
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