In his campaign for the presidency, President Barack Obama vowed to promote policies that would reform our nation’s immigration system comprehensively, those that focused not just on border security, but reforms that would “bring people out of the shadows,” keep families together and remove the various hurdles that encourage people to enter and remain in the country illegally. So far the administration has chosen to focus on a few select issues in need of redress, such as expanding the Children’s Healthcare Program to remove barriers preventing legal immigrant children from being covered, and providing interim relief to immigrant widows and widowers of U.S. citizens who died before their spouse’s immigrant petitions could be adjudicated. Congress seems to be taking a similar approach to reforming the system, introducing bills that target one area of reform, such as the Dream Act. The latest suggested reforms would go to individuals involved in same-sex relationships who seek to sponsor their domestic partners for permanent residency.
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