Posted on 08/02/2012 2:01:58 AM PDT by Libloather
Pelosi, Dems push Homeland Security for clarity on LGBT deportations
By Mike Lillis - 08/01/12 06:42 PM ET
Scores of House Democrats called on the Obama administration this week to protect lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) couples when considering deportations.
Behind Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) and Rep. Jerrold Nadler (D-N.Y.), the lawmakers want the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to state explicitly that LGBT "family ties" will be deemed "a positive factor" discouraging deportation as DHS agents gauge whether to pursue cases.
"Without specific, written guidance, there remains the very real risk agency officers, agents, and attorneys making decisions about individual cases would overlook LGBT family ties, particularly the ties of immigrants to their U.S. citizen same-sex partners or spouses, and thereby, decline to exercise prosecutorial discretion," Pelosi, Nadler and 82 other Democrats wrote in a July 31 letter to DHS Secretary Janet Napolitano.
"A written policy is the best way to ensure that the decision by President Obama and DHS to recognize LGBT family ties for immigration purposes will be implemented so that families will remain together," they added.
At issue is DHS's year-old deportation policy empowering officials to use "prosecutorial discretion" to prioritize illegal immigrants considered a danger to national security or public safety, while allowing students and other non-threatening people to remain in the country.
The administration on numerous occasions has said that LGBT relationships are a factor underlying those decisions, but the Democrats say those statements lack the force of an official written guidance.
The lawmakers made a similar request last September, and were agitated by DHS's response. Ten months later, they're trying again.
"Since our last letter to you, there have been several key developments which show that the verbal policy you articulated to protect LGBT families in and of itself remains inadequate," they wrote.
"It would be beyond senseless," they added, "to see LGBT persons with family ties here in the United States deported simply because the affected persons, their attorneys, and/or ICE officials were unaware of DHS’s verbal policy."
“How do the illegals prove that they’re gay?”
Lock them in a room with queen obamao... they either whip his arse or come out of the room both enjoying a smoke.
LLS
“How do the illegals prove that they’re gay?”
Lock them in a room with queen obamao... they either whip his arse or come out of the room both enjoying a smoke.
LLS
the issue is whether they are here legally or not.
now all of a sudden queers have more rights than normal straight people.
just rats protecting their pet perversion.
blessings, bobo
LGBT “family ties
Horse shit.
If they are illegal and up for deportation they get deported. I could claim to have families ties to Bill Gates. Doesn’t mean I really do....
This should not be a problem, deport both of them. That way they can live happily ever after,or till death do them part.
Amen.
The democrats have to keep those homosexual voters.
All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal then others.
It seems like every day now I read about queers and another victory for them.
WTH is going on that these politicians are so enamored of the pervert life style?
I love how the democrats are now on board with the term “prosecutorial discretion”.
Of course, doing this would violate a duly enacted federal law (DOMA), but when it comes to enforcing laws, democrats now believe the president can freely decide which ones to enforce.
I presume that if Romney wins, and decides not to enforce stupid civil rights laws, or exercises “prosecutorial discretion” against targets of rediculous EPA rules, they will complain loudly, and the media will call Romney lawless.
Of course, the democrats have covered themselves, by writing all their laws so that they include the right for their far-left community organizations to sue in court to punish people, even if the government doesn’t.
I'd say they won't have to. There's precedent--in some places, men who claim they "feel" that they are improperly sexed, and men who are undergoing transgender "therapy" are allowed to use women's bathrooms.
So, LGBT trumps ordinary illegal, which often trumps ordinary citizen. What a strange pyramid O worships!
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