Religious leaders have been fairly supportive of the Hispanic community and immigration reform, yet has also been ass-backwards in terms of gay rights. As an undocumented person though no fault of my own, who is pathetically desperate for a path to legal status, I will take any help that I can get, for now. That doesn’t mean as a progressive that I accept, condone, or will support the homophobic positions that Catholic leaders have in the future.

Hopefully immigration reform passes this year. Hopefully UAFA is brought up as an amendment to the bill when the leaders of the bill see that it can pass and won’t sink the whole bill. Let’s work hard to pass our own dire priorities without hurting one another and hope that at least some of us get some relief this year so we have the strength to help the other right afterwards.

“All-or-nothing” is a destructive mentality and it’s not worth it just so you can feel good about your personal, principled satisfaction that the “perfect” didn’t pass. It’s presumptuous to think that I or other like me will abandon supporting fellow progressives like gays and lesbians. I can’t speak for deeply religious nuts, but I think that if 12 million undocumented immigrants were legalized and in 4, 6, whatever years, if they become citizens, would certainly remember it was mainly Democrats and liberals that fought for them and would return the favor when they could vote.

If you want to work against the bill because it’s not perfect, then please go ahead and try to destroy it alongside teabaggers, protesters with misspelled signs, Sen. Jeff Sessions, Sen. David Vitter, Sarah Palin, and Glenn Beck, but I think it’s counter-productive and pitting progressive vs. progressive. I know you are crushed UAFA may not be in this bill and may not be passed this year. I know what it feels like.

From my perspective, adding in this idea of allowing citizens to sponsor their same-sex partners would contribute to killing the bill, and it has been killed several times in previous years. I think it is a sad, yet accurate prediction. I too, think a “comprehensive” immigration reform bill is a mistake — too many politicians squabble over little portions of the bill and nothing gets accomplished and nobody is happy (again, see the health care reform bill.)

I was unknowingly brought into this country when I was 3 years old and my parents overstayed their visa, and here I am now, 24 years old, as American as anybody else, with a graduate school education, but undocumented and unable to work or function in the only country I know. I too, have heard the argument that immigration reform should wait as you must have heard that LGBT reform should wait. I too have worked hard in an uphill battle, to push for reform; to see that young people who, through no fault of their own, are undocumented get a fair shot at life here. I would do almost anything to get this, or a more specific bill called the DREAM Act passed, which unfortunately conflicts with your interests, which I am wholeheartedly sympathetic to. If I were in your position, I would be doing the same thing you are. Good luck to you.

The “all-or-nothing” point-of-view is impossible for me to comprehend. No bill that passes Congress, especially right now is going to be perfect, let alone great, and will have disappointments for real progressives.

The health care bill, as watered down as it was, stalled. Same-sex marriage is unfortunately a tough pill to swallow for a lot of ignorant and hateful people in this county and dragging the issue into comprehensive immigration reform would be a mistake; a poison that would help kill it, as if we didn’t have enough trouble getting it done as it is.

This is a fight you have to sadly and realistically put off for now until more people become enlightened, more states recognize same-sex marriage, and as a new generation of people take power over homophobic, selfish politicians.

This is the worst news I have heard. I really do hope Sen. Schumer has a change of heart. Its 2010 for goodness sake. This means that LGBT bi-nationals have absolutely no value. What are we supposed to do? As American citizens are we doomed to leave our country? I am too old for that. My roots are here in New York! I am beyond frustrated, but I will NOT move and I will continue in the fight with you.
C

2009 population from 1 to 10

New York, N.Y. ………………8,363,710
Los Angeles, Calif………….. 3,833,995
Chicago, Ill…………………… 2,853,114
Houston, Tex………………… 2,242,193
Philadelphia, Pa. ……………1,567,924
Phoenix, Ariz……………….. 1,447,395
San Diego, Calif……………. 1,351,305
Dallas, Tex. ………………….1,279,910
San Diego ……………………1,279,329
San Jose, Calif. ………………948,279

That means that is the same quantity of people that New York and Chicago has.
Just imagine our county with out people in New York and Chicago…
How expensive is going to be that?

Let’s us our head We are the # 1 country in the world! Let’s fix this problem as We are.

The problem is based on the way that our broken imigration system is, if the visa gap could be larger for family members and if we could have a real temporay workers program like in europe, We can solve the problem.

We don’t need more fences, we don’t need more expenses on that. We just have to fix what is broken and unfotunally in this case is our law that was designed for the situation that we have 30 years ago, don’t patch it, fix it!. and fix it for ever, do it right.

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