First Ever Hearing on GLBT Immigration Equality - Windy City Times. Filed under: Featured — jessica s law - Google News @ 5:41 pm. table border=0 width= valign=top cellpadding=2 cellspacing=7trtd valign=top class=jfont ...Julian Bond, the lion of the civil rights movement, threw the support of the National Association of Colored People ( NAACP ) behind the legislation “because the NAACP strongly believes that the definition of ‘family is not restrictive and can and should also include non-traditional family units.” He is the chairman of the board of the group.
“Too much of the debate [ on immigration reform ] has focused on enforcement and undocumented workers,” Bond said the NAACP feels strongly that the focus should be on a reinvigoration of the reunification of families.
Supporter Sen. Charles Schumer ( D-New York ) argued, “What truly engenders fraud is the
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“It's disheartening to see a core constitutional principle set aside by simple majority vote, particularly in our nation's most populous state,” New York Representative Jerrold Nadler, a Democrat, who is sponsoring the Uniting American Families Act (UAFA), a bill that would grant gay and lesbian spouses the right to sponsor an immigrant for U.S. citizenship, said in a statement. “I, however, applaud the California Supreme Court for wisely recognizing the legality and legitimacy of the 18,000 same-sex marriages carried out in California before that right was so unjustly taken away.”
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