Archive for immigration law
Asylum for Malawi Couple in the U.S.?
Considering the dismal future and potential asylum request of the recently pardoned Malawi couple, Andrew Sullivan says:
“Come to America.”
Is he serious? Is this really the best place for them to seek asylum? Tiwonge Chimbalanga identifies as a trans-woman. They won’t be able to marry here, either. In many places, neither of them will have protection [...]
So Many Illegals, So Few Microchips!
In a 21st century effort to technologically update the idiocy of the late William F. Buckley, who once suggested tattooing people with HIV, this Republican candidate for the Iowa legislature thinks that inserting a microchip into illegals would be a good idea. (How would this happen, exactly? Don’t expect specificity from someone this moronic.)
I have [...]
We, the People (Sometimes Forget the Very Document those Words Came From)
After reading the summary of this poll, can anyone seriously argue that it’s a good idea to allow people to vote on others’ civil rights? Without the cooling crucible of the legislature, all sorts of things would pass — including, say, bans on marriage equality.
But where legislation has to survive scrutiny and opposition from people [...]
Andrew Sullivan’s “Familiar Feeling” — and a Qualified Defense of Obama
Well, we’re not even four months into the Obama Administration and already the LGBT community is frustrated at the pace of developments. And, really, who can blame us, after the betrayals of the Clinton Administration and the hostility of his successor who-must-not-be-named? Here’s Andrew Sullivan, in a sobering and angry piece on the Atlantic website [...]
The Immigration Follies
Yesterday, I wrote with righteous fury about the effects of marriage inequality on the mother of twelve-year-old twins. Her deportation to the Philippines, scheduled for tomorrow, will mean that these kids will lose her (and she, them). Again, were her same-sex partner permitted to “sponsor” her as may U.S. citizens married to foreigners, this sad [...]