Report: U.S. immigration law hurts gays

[AlphaCentauri]

Amid the national debate over immigration rights, Human Rights Watch and Immigration Equality issued a report Tuesday on the problems faced by thousands of U.S. citizens and their foreign-born same-sex partners.

The report, titled "Family, Unvalued: Discrimination, Denial and the Fate of Binational Same-Sex Couples under U.S. Law," documents how U.S. immigration law and federal policy discriminate against binational same-sex couples.

The 191-page report describes the consequences of this discrimination and explains how it can separate not only loving partners from one another, but also parents from children. It shows how this policy has destroyed careers, livelihoods and lives.




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[joemurphy]

1. Hell, those laws do the same things to heterosexual partners.

The Immigration and Nationality Act is possibly the worst hodgepodge of benighted shit passing for law in the U.S. Code. Nonsensical rulings abound administered by poorly trained and undereducated staff. Gays get screwed under the immigration laws. Heteros get screwed too.

[mitchtv]

2. the degree of fucked over is immensely different

you cannot even compare the two. hets generally have the option of marriage. Gays can never get their partner in. Gays have to resort to waht I did and it wasn't truly legal

[joemurphy]

3. I get your point.

[AlphaCentauri]

4. Truly those laws are not family oriented