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Post-DOMA – How Can LGBT Persons Benefit Under Current Immigration Laws?
With the Defense of Marriage Act dead, marriage equality provides more than 1,100 federal benefits previously unavailable to same-sex spouses. I’m pretty sure that is an undercount given I can think of a hundred different immigration benefits alone. There are more than 24,000 Read More …
Now Stealing American Spouses Too
As if stealing American jobs was not enough, illegal me was offered a full-time unpaid offer to marry my wonderful, beautiful, sweet U.S. citizen partner today. This was inspired, in part, by the decision of the Supreme Court to extend Read More …
Affirmative Action Survives But Not For Long
My heart skipped a few beats today when the Supreme Court vacated and remanded Fisher v. Texas, to the Fifth Circuit, but affirmative action remains the law. The Justices are so scared of race and racial politics that they said Read More …
Cert. Granted: Mayorkas v. de Osorio
Well, as predicted, the “Justice” Department have succeeded in whining their way up to the Supreme Court regarding the Ninth Circuit’s decision in de Osorio v. Mayorkas. The Supreme Court granted certioriari in Mayorkas v. de Osorio this morning. The Read More …
Beats for Bangladesh
On April 24th a nine-story garment factory in the outskirts of Dhaka, Bangladesh collapsed. It is estimated that over 6,000 people worked in the building and as of today, the death toll is at 1,129. Approximately 2,500 injured people were Read More …