Love, you say? Want to spend the rest of your lives together, you say? One man and one woman, please. What, you can't do that? Then your relationship means zip to immigration officials. Deportation for you!
Our broken immigration has no problem ripping LGBT families apart. It's bad enough that the federal government still accepts that defending marriage means excluding queer couples, but what's much worse than not being able to get a marriage license is not being able to get legal immigration documents, meaning that you can be literally taken from the arms of your loved ones and shipped to another country. This cruel and discriminatory policy takes away U.S. citizens' human right to spend their life with somebody they love.
The Uniting American Families Act (UAFA) could change all that, by recognizing queer binational couples and allowing immigration for love, affording them the same rights as heterosexual couples where one partner is not an American. But Congress has yet to pass this vital family-friendly legislation. That's why a number of city councils are passing resolutions urging Congress to step up and vote up UAFA.
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