Binational LGBT Couples Separated by Immigration Laws

Binational LGBT Couples Separated by Immigration Laws

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New America Media, Audio, Inga Buchbinder, Posted: Jul 21, 2010

Latinos might be the face of the immigration debate. The stories of workers without papers grabbed from poultry plants or at routine traffic stops and of children suddenly left wihtout parents have become part of the push for immigration reform. But many other groups of people are also stuck in the cracks of the broken immigration system. For example binational gay or lesbian couples. One partner might be American. The other Korean. The only way they can stay together is if they are married. But federal law does not recognize same sex marriage.

Amos Lim, co- founder of Out4Immigration, talks about the struggles of the binational LGBT group and what is being done in congress to grant rights to partners of US citizens. 


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Judy Rickard and Joe Smith are both part of same sex couples with partners who are not US citizens. Both Judy and Joe join us to talk about how their lives and relationships are effected by the hurdles and hoops they have to jump through to live with the person they love.


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Anonymous

Posted Jul 21 2010

I'm one of the couples affected and there are over 36,000 of us. I'm Australian, she's American, and we have no immigration rights whatsoever in the US. Thanks for bringing attention to this. For more see www.immigrationequality.org

Anonymous

Posted Dec 2 2010

I'm in the same boat and it just sucks, Obama made to many promises and i think he forgot the LGBT family.

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