rssAnother Twist in U.S. Immigration Policy
Tuesday, March 17, 2009 at 7:05 am
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Maybe it’s because I’m relatively new to the immigration beat, but I’m consistently surprised at the twists and turns of immigration policy that lead to absurd and shocking results.
Not only are most immigrants in detention centers imprisoned for months or even years despite not having committed a crime, as I wrote Monday, but, as Glenn Greenwald points out in Salon, while the heterosexual legal spouse of a U.S. citizen is allowed to live and work and apply for citizenship in the United States, gay spouses of U.S. citizens get no such privilege. Meanwhile, we have voters in California and elsewhere voting to make it impossible for gay people to get married and obtain that right. Whether intentionally or not, turns out they’re making an anti-immigration argument, too. The rule is estimated to be keeping thousands of people in committed same-sex relationships from even living in the same country.
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Comment posted March 17, 2009 @ 11:20 am
I always thought the California issue with gay marriage is on a state level. The immigration rights that the gays and lesbians don't have is a federal level. Even if California legalizes gay marriage that has nothing to do with the immigration right of gays. So I don't think you saying the passage of prop 8 in CA is being anti-immigration. If you don't like gay marriage don't have one and don't attend one. I think gays and lesbians should have the same rights as straight couples. “Religion is the opium of the masses” as some say.
Comment posted March 17, 2009 @ 9:56 pm
I find it amazing that in this day and age, with all the problems we face that a senseless thing such as same-sex marriages is causing such a stir. All people should have the same rights. Why should it be different just because of sexual preferance. Take a look at this Act currently under review to allow same sex marriages to sponser a family green card to their spouses:
http://www.basicrights.org/?p=554#comment-2727
Comment posted March 18, 2009 @ 4:56 am
I find it amazing that in this day and age, with all the problems we face that a senseless thing such as same-sex marriages is causing such a stir. All people should have the same rights. Why should it be different just because of sexual preferance. Take a look at this Act currently under review to allow same sex marriages to sponser a family green card to their spouses:
http://www.basicrights.org/?p=554#comment-2727
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