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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 …
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 …
Undocuqueer Billboard
Lovely billboard by Julio Salgado, now featured at the Galeria de la Raza, in the Mission District, San Francisco, where I have spent several summers working. Oh, the one in yellow (yellow for Asian?) is me. I hope Audre Lorde Read More …
CSPA Update: June 24 is D-Day
Attorneys for de Osorio filed an excellent reply brief to the DOJ’s petition seeking certiorari on May 24. Usually, the petitioners can file a reply brief within 10 days in de Osorio and it appears that they have done so. As of now, Read More …