A White House summit with congressional leaders scheduled for June 16 is intended to begin the serious push toward creating and passing a comprehensive reform bill. President Obama has said he intends to take up immigration reform this year, but the White House staff has said they don't expect it to be resolved until 2010.
"The benefits this legislation seeks to provide are not contingent upon the definition of marriage, which I believe is an issue best left to the states," said Leahy. The bishop who heads the migration committee of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops said in letters to members of Congress on June 2 that the conference would oppose such legislation. Another family reunification bill, the Reuniting Families Act, would allow traditionally defined families to reunite more quickly in the United States.
Leahy's bill, and a companion version introduced in the House, "would erode the institution of marriage and family," Bishop Wester wrote in a letter to Honda. He said Honda's bill promotes a position that is contrary to the very nature of marriage which “predates the church and the state."
Immigration Advocates to Push Legislation this Summer (Catholic Weekly)
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