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Aerows Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-18-11 11:17 PM
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Jon Stewart on DOMA - at his best

I can't fathom how anyone that is in ANY party that calls themselves human, thinks kicking a person that is married and loves their spouse enough to see them through illness out of the country under deportation laws, is patriotic.

I'll link it here. I really sums up a lot of the draconian mindset we have towards what a "family" is. A family is what a family says it is, not what the law dictates.

It's pretty important for people to realize, despite the shiny, lovable hindsight...

I love all people. I love the idea of loving people. I don't understand this.

http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/wed-august-17-2011/doma-sweet-doma---beer---anchor-nursing
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Tx4obama Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-18-11 11:46 PM
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1. Obama halts some immigration cases

Source: Bostom.com

The Obama administration took one of its boldest steps yet toward addressing illegal immigration today by announcing it would halt potentially thousands of cases in federal immigration court if they do not involve criminals or people with flagrant immigration violations.

Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano said today that the agency will launch a case-by-case review of 300,000 cases pending in immigration courts across the nation to focus on the federal government’s top priority, detaining and deporting criminals and serious violators of immigration law.

Immigrants classified as low-priority cases could receive a stay of deportation and the chance to apply for a work permit.

The move is likely to inflame political tensions nationwide as a campaign issue in 2012, and it has major implications in Massachusetts, which has the second-highest immigration court backlog in the United States. All manner of immigrants in the court pipeline could stand to benefit from the policy shift, from factory workers snatched in the 2007 New Bedford raid, to same-sex couples about to be separated, to youths facing deportation.

http://www.boston.com/Boston/metrodesk/2011/08/immigration/xVwK5kIcuveuzkoAFlilFJ/index.html



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Aerows Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-19-11 12:02 AM
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2. Thanks for being part of the dawn
in a very bleak night.

That's a good sign.
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