Through a new bill submitted this week, Senator Patrick Leahy (D-VT) decided to shake things up a bit more on the two fronts that seem to generate the most outrage and passion: immigration and gay marriage.
If the new bill becomes law, foreign-born same-sex partners of American citizens and legal immigrants would be given the same priority for green cards extended to legal spouses of opposite-sex couples.
The political fallout from the new bill was swift and threatens to fracture the fragile immigration reform coalition that includes Latino and black groups, Roman Catholic and evangelical Christian churches, farm workers and commercial farmers, organized labor, some employer groups, and the ever-more-relevant Congressional Hispanic Caucus.
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