Reps Demand LGBT Immigration Reform

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If you go to the House of Representatives website and look up the bill you will find the sponsors under Bill summary and status. Here is a link for the co-sponsors of bill HR1024 Uniting Families Act http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d111:HR01024:@@@P

I am an American citizen in a permanent partnership with a French national currently living in Australia. I am interested in obtaining a list of all 60 signatories to the recent letter headed by Tammy Baldwin highlighting the importance of incorporating immigration sponsorship rights for same sex couples. Thank you in advance for you assistance.

Mark says: "To remedy this inequity, gay and lesbian people should either 1) be allowed to sponsor a same-gender partner, or 2) be allowed to enter sham marriages and sponsor an opposite-gender partner and granted both a green card and immunity from immigration marriage fraud prosecution. But there should not be special laws that are designed to deliberately fence all gays and lesbians out of the immigration process." 1 is fine, yes why shouldn't they be allowed to sponsor someone no matter what sex they are, but "to be allowed to enter into sham marriages? Both granted a green card and immunity from immigration marriage fraud prosecution?" There are plenty of straights who are prosecuted and not granted immunity for these 'sham' marriages when busted. Yes, G&L should have the same rights, but not special ones. I don't think they shouldn't be able to marry like straight couples. It's not G&L that will ruin or tarnish 'marriage', it's those who doesn't hold it as sacred, gay or not.

I have been with my partner for 8 years, We were living in the U.S., but his work VISA was declined after working 8 years in the U.S. Due to his Visa being declined, we had to leave the country and move to the UK, and I had to leave my job, friends and family behind, so that we can stay together. I long for the day for this to pass, so we can make it back to the U.S.

I am in the same boat as the first poster. I have to leave my partner of 8 years in August. We have been bracing for this moment since day one but we keep hoping for a miracle. I am convinced there are more than 36,000 couples in the same situation, most of us don't even participate in the debate or anything related to the subject for fear of prosecution. Many people stay in the shadows and that hurts our options of getting anything passed that would benefit our families. Whenever I speak about our situation people look at me completely puzzled; they don't understand why things are so difficult and that stems from the fact that most americans have no idea how the immigration system works. I know that one day things will be better for us, but in the meantime... I am just going back home.. heartbroken but hopeful that eventually our prayers will be heard.

I am with an American, we are very happy. We live thousands of miles apart, our lives are on hold until we can live together. I sleep alone every night and miss her so much. We just want to be together under one roof and start living. It is costing us a fortune getting flights to see each other and keeping two homes. We are in love and are relying on UAFA to pass. The airport goodbyes are emotionally draining and very painfully hard. I would like to also say she is a solider who FOUGHT for her country, and that same country has made her a SECOND class citizen! How is this fair? She was almost killed and has long term suffering from the war. Obama, you need to do something. Keep LGBT families together!

This bill need to pass. I as the first poster is an international student with an American partner, and even though my graduation is a bit further down the road, it's still a dark cloud that is hanging over our heads all the time. It's very hard to have the incredible uncertainty about a relationship that we have right now, it takes a toll on us, our relationship, and all the daily things we engage in. With this bill passing our future would be so much brighter.

Current United States Immigration laws amount to a situation in which denies two people who love each other the right to exist together. This is not to discount the other 1,138 federal rights are also extremely important - but families who are torn apart face a far greater challenge than other same gender couples who do not receive legal recognition and benefits. While strict constructionist conservatives may assert that “gay and lesbian people have the same rights as heterosexuals to also marry a member of the opposite sex” - their assertion, if legally tested, would be met with criminal penalties for marriage immigration fraud for a gay or lesbian person to marry and sponsor someone of the opposite sex. Therefore they are wrong, Supreme Court Justice Scalia is wrong - wrong to the tune of “a $250,000.00 fine for immigration fraud, deportation and five years in prison” wrong. Not that very many gay and lesbian people have any sincere plans to marry the opposite sex, but here is where this supposed "gays have the same rights as heterosexuals to marry EVEN the opposite sex" anti-gay rhetoric also fails the legal litmus test. And I doubt that Scalia or anyone in the anti-gay crowd would stand behind their rhetorical argument, put their money where their mouth is and actually post bail for someone trying to prove their assertion. Absent the provision for same-gender sponsorship, current immigration law establishes a second-class of American citizens who pay taxes, yet are stripped of any legal right to sponsor anyone of either gender. To remedy this inequity, gay and lesbian people should either 1) be allowed to sponsor a same-gender partner, or 2) be allowed to enter sham marriages and sponsor an opposite-gender partner and granted both a green card and immunity from immigration marriage fraud prosecution. But there should not be special laws that are designed to deliberately fence all gays and lesbians out of the immigration process. The anti-gay political rhetoric is that supposedly gays and lesbians “tear apart families”. The false notion that gays and lesbians hurt any family is rhetorical fearmongering agenda-based speculation rooted in political ideology. Government-imposed anti-gay discrimination and homophobia is what tears apart families, these situation are living proof of real families, real kids, in real communities - not phony rhetoric. If the supposed “family-values” conservatives are really pro-family and pro-child, then they need to set up to the plate, put their money where their mouth is, can the rhetoric, stick to their core values of marriage, families and children and stop forbidding and prohibiting other people to have families. But I expect most to continue to pipe out hot-air political rhetoric and abandon their core principles any way that they can justify their argument with guilt-by-association comparisons to the laundry list of irrelevant peripheral situations. The rest of us need to stand up and support these efforts to truly make CIR to be “comprehensive” for all couples, families and their children.