Us Immigration woes

All week long people in binational relationships where they can’t bring their loved ones into the country had to put up with Holiday messages from the military on TV. Not to put down the military and all, but what about us? Give us a break!

Just like the people in the military have to use the phones and e-mail to try and bring the holiday feelings to their loved ones, we have to do the same, or spend thousands of dollars to fly where every they are.

Come on Bush bring home the troops in your trumped up war with the wrong country, but bring home our loved ones. Do something right for once in the New Year!

Roy

Right to petition

The right to petition the government has been interpreted as extending to petitions of all three branches: the Congress, the executive and the judiciary. The Supreme Court has interpreted “redress of grievances” broadly; thus, it is possible for one to request the government to exercise its powers in furtherance of the general public good.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Amendment#Petition_and_assembly

The right to petition is the freedom of individuals (and sometimes groups and corporations) to petition their government for a correction or repair of some form of injustice without fear of punishment for the same. Although often overlooked in favor of other more famous freedoms and sometimes taken for granted[1], many other civil liberties are enforceable against the government only by exercising this basic right

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Right_to_petition

In the United States, the right to petition is guaranteed by the First Amendment to the Constitution, and specifically prohibits Congress from abrdiging “the right of the people … to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.” Its roots within the colonies can be traced back to the Declaration of Independence,

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Right_to_petition

United States Constitution

http://www.lawlibraryonline.com/united.states/constitution.htm

What this all means is, we have a right to be herd by the government when we don’t like what is happening. If you are like me you hate being decimated on for being gay and having a none US citizen as a lover. So we can never give up, just keep on faxing
E mailing and calling. Let the bigots in Washington DC know how wrong they are!

YOU HAVR RIGHTS US THEM!

Roy

From the Desk of Rachel B. Tivan Immigration Equality

I want to give you a quick update on what Immigration Equality is doing to advance the Uniting American Families Act (UAFA) in Congress.

As the 109th Congress ends, a record 14 Senators are supporting the bill, and 116 members of the House of Representatives have signed on as well. We are still far short of the numbers we need to pass a stand-alone bill to end immigration discrimination against binational same-sex couples. As we continue to educate members of Congress about the UAFA, Immigration Equality is seeking opportunities to include the bill’s language in other pieces of legislation.

In the lame duck period, Immigration Equality is talking with our allies in the Senate leadership about the possibility of inserting the language of the UAFA into the new comprehensive immigration reform package. We expect that adding UAFA will be an uphill battle: the Democrats control the Senate by a very slim margin, and the new immigration bill will likely be quite similar to the version the Senate passed this year. In addition, much of the enthusiasm for positive immigration reform comes from a group of Republican Senators who do not support equal rights for LGBT people. Despite these hurdles, Immigration Equality is using this opportunity to gain intelligence that will be useful to the bill’s future progress.

Meanwhile, Immigration Equality is chipping away at the discriminatory HIV immigration ban. With the help of New York University Law School, we are consulting with leaders in the Senate on ways to expand the waivers currently available for immigrants living with HIV/AIDS. We will keep you posted on the progress of these efforts.

Your support of Immigration Equality helps keep the pressure on Congress to end immigration discrimination. We are your organization. Please make a year-end donation today.

Yours for equality,

Rachel B. Tiven
Executive Director

From Roy webmaster

We need to put the pressure on the US Government now, We need to help get this law passed. The only way little old you and me can do this is to write, and to write to everyone! Congress,Senators, newspapers, and stars that you know are gay. Maybe threy would be willing to help.

Get out your fax’s, do you e-mail. Just write!

N.J. Gov to Make Gay Unions Official

By TOM HESTER Jr.

TRENTON, N.J. Dec 21, 2006 (AP)

New Jersey’s gay couples are gaining all the rights and responsibilities of marriage as the state moves to become the fifth in the nation to institute civil unions.

Gov. Jon S. Corzine was to sign a civil unions bill on Thursday. The law will take effect Feb. 19.

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Baby steps to get it a Federal Law

Write you Senator!

This is a letter that I faxed to every single US Senator! You can do the same thing.

Hello:

I would like to share with you a problem that over 70,000 plus American citizens have. There are American citizens living and working all over the world because they can’t bring there loved ones into the USA. The problem can be fixed very easily if you would open up your heart and your ears to this problem, since we are all American first. We all believe in The Declaration of Independence. The pursuit of liberty, happiness, and, equal rights.

We are a group of American citizens that the law now discrimates against. Yes the Federal government has been decimating against some of its own people. People that love this country and what this country stands for! People that want to come back to this country and live and work just like everyone else. American citizens that can not bring there loved ones either back here or bring into this country.

This is the year 2006 almost 2007 it is a shame that other countries have to show the United States the road to being equal with its citizens.

If you would help support the Uniting families act, it would make thousands of US citizens very happy and end the discrimination that is going on at the federal level.

Please help stop this American wrong.

Thank You

Add your full name and you SS number. I did!

The Bush Administration’s Abysmal Civil Rights Record
The sad truth is that President Bush’s administration has compiled the worst civil rights record in modern American history. While advocating publicly for reauthorization of the Voting Rights Act, for instance, this administration has been actively working to undermine it.

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From People for the American Way

Martin Luther King, Jr., a Baptist minister

I say to you today, my friends, so even though we face the difficulties of today and tomorrow, I still have a dream. It is a dream deeply rooted in the American dream.

I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: “We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal.”

Martin Luther king Jr didn’t know that so far off into the further not only was he fighting for his people, but his saying about the nation would still have meaning to none black people. But for people that are fighting for their equal rights.

Think of what he said in the few lines here and sit back and think.

The Statue of Liberty Poem

Not like the brazen giant of Greek fame.
With conquering limbs astride from land to land;
Here at our sea-washed, sunset gates shall stand
A mighty woman with a torch, whose flame
Is the imprisoned lightning, and her name
Mother of Exiles. From her beacon-hand
Glows world-wide welcome; her mild eyes command
The air-bridged harbor that twin cities frame.
“Keep, ancient lands, your storied pomp!” cries she
With silent lips. “Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me,
I lift my lamp beside the golden door!”

Christine Chavez, former UFW California political director and granddaughter of the late civil rights leader Cesar Chavez, says gays and lesbians everywhere stand to gain by working together for the rights of immigrants

There are thousands of LGBT immigrants living in this country working alongside all immigrants to provide for themselves and their families. Not only do we immigrants represent not only a valuable part of America’s economy; our experiences and lives help to honor and shape this country’s future. And as shared experiences and histories exist between immigrant and LGBT communities, we should remind ourselves that no movement has ever succeeded without friends and allies.

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The Declaration of Independence

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.

Funny it doesn’t say anything here about being straight or gay? It says equal. It is too bad under the declaration of independence that gay people are being decimated against. We are being decimated because we can’t have gay marriage under Federal law.