Posted on 12/22/2012 4:40:12 AM PST by IbJensen
(This Dec. 3, 2012 file photo shows Senate Foreign Relations Chairman Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass., at a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington.)
(CNSNews.com) – For the last two years, Sen. John Kerry (D-Mass.), the nominee to be the next secretary of state, has called for “immigration equality” to prevent the deportation of illegal alien same-sex partners of legal U.S. residents.
In May, shortly after President Barack Obama announced his support for homosexual marriage, Kerry and 16 other Democratic senators sent a letter to Attorney General Eric Holder and Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano.
The letter pointed to the number of states recognizing gay marriage, but said problems could arise because of the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA). Kerry, chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, was the lead signature on the letter.
“With marriage equality rights being extended to more and more citizens of this country, and with the Department of Justice’s repudiation of DOMA, we are concerned with the toll the continued denial of I-130 applications for same-sex immigrant spouses is exacting on families in this country,” the senators’ letter said.
“Denials of these applications have caused extreme hardship for many legally married couples, forcing them to choose between leaving the country or breaking the law,” the letter added.
The Defense of Marriage Act, signed by President Bill Clinton in 1996, defines marriage as between one man and one woman for federal purposes and says that no state can be required to recognize a same-sex marriage from another state.
The May letter referenced a 2011 letter which expressed similar concerns about “immigration equality.”
“We are appreciative that in the response to our letter, the Departments agreed to look at cases affected by DOMA on a case-by-case basis based on the individual circumstances,” the letter continued. “We are concerned that this policy is not currently being exercised at all levels of DHS and DOJ based on anecdotal reports. We are unaware of any application being held in abeyance following a case-by-case review.
The letter added, “We are particularly troubled that some field offices are apparently following a blanket policy to deny green card applications for all gay spouses. We are concerned they are not considering LGBT family ties in their consideration to exercise discretion.”
In the previous letter, in April 2011, where Kerry was also the lead signature, he praised the Obama administration for dropping its defense of DOMA in federal court, but insisted the immigration concerns must be addressed for homosexual couples.
“With DOMA as law, however, we are creating a tier of second-class families in states that have authorized same-sex marriage,” the letter from the senators said. “The same second-class status is imposed upon marriages between same-sex partners in which one spouse is not a U.S. citizen.
We urge you to reconsider this position in light of the administration’s position that it will no longer defend DOMA in federal court.”
The 2011 letter goes on to say, “We ask DHS to exercise prosecutorial discretion in commencing and prosecuting removal proceedings against married noncitizens that would be otherwise eligible to adjust their status to lawful permanent resident but for DOMA. We also call upon the Department of Justice to institute a moratorium on orders of removal issued by the immigration courts to married foreign nationals who would be otherwise eligible to adjust their status to lawful permanent resident but for DOMA.”
The organization Immigration Equality, which works specifically on homosexual immigration issues, praised Kerry for his efforts.
“Immigration Equality, and the families we represent, are enormously grateful to Senator Kerry and his colleagues for calling on the Administration to keep our families together,” said Rachel B. Tiven, executive director of Immigration Equality, in a statement on April 6, 2011.
“Unless USCIS changes course, real families will be impacted, and American citizens will be separated from their loved ones. Maintaining the status quo for these families will mean forcing them apart, or into exile. We call on USCIS to heed the advice of Senator Kerry, and the other signatories on today’s letter, and allow these loving, committed couples to remain together,” Tiven added.
Kerry’s tenure, if confirmed by the Senate, will likely be a continuation of the policies of current Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in promoting both homosexual issues and abortion on the global front, said Tom McClusky, senior vice president of the Family Research Council, a social conservative think tank.
"One would imagine he’d prioritize abortion and homosexuality as a center of his policy just as Secretary Clinton has stated,” McClusky told CNSNews.com in a written statement. “He opposes DOMA, life and prioritization of a mother and father model for adoption.”
Fill up this already diluted nation with openly homosexuals even as it is known that they are anethema to a decent society.
"One would imagine he’d prioritize abortion and homosexuality as a center of his policy just as Secretary Clinton has stated,” McClusky told CNSNews.com in a written statement. “He opposes DOMA, life and prioritization of a mother and father model for adoption.”
Nothing like making a culture-of-death directly counter to the "common good" which is supposed to be the state's highest goal in defining what is a good state, understood from the time of Aristotle's Politics, in particular, a culture-of-eternal-death in trashing the Constitutional rights of people of faith and right reason to oppose same, as your morally bankrupt foreign policy priority, which says it all for an America firmly in the grip of disciples of the devil, an America that has turned its back on the closing statement in The Declaration of Independence in calling upon the protection of Almighty God for its success, an America that has invited God's wrath if it doesn't turn from its evil ways!
And regarding the absent Hitlery:
http://cnsnews.com/news/article/kerry-all-you-who-know-hillary-know-she-would-rather-be-here-today
Sen Kerry was reportedly warned about the 911 Atrocities in
advance ... and did nothing?
Not one Senator will ask him that, or anything else,
except about his favorite wine, since he told them
he was French and Irish rather than Austrian,
most likely.
Has he released his F-180 yet?
Another promise broken-—just damn.
Kerry isn’t French, Irish or Austrian.
He’s 57 Varieties.
We are being ruled by a pigocracy. Every Obama appointment is a pig. Lisa Jackson is a pig. Eric Holder is a pig. John Kerry is a pig. Harry Reid is a pig. Hillary Clinton is a pig. Moochelle is the pig of pigs and Obama is the beast-master.
The younger generations are the most brainwashed about all this LBGT garbage. They have been brainwashed to comply plus there are more of those LBGT freaks among them.
So “fairness” means gay marriage and allowing the immigration of disease ridden gay partners to mooch off our social welfare systems
There is a popular notion on Free Republic that Kerry (who is rumored to have served in Vietnam) has something to do with Heinz and therefore Heinz is bad.
The CEO William R. Johnson appears from time to time on the Niel Cavuto Show. He is a solid Republican, perhaps even conservative in his fiscal views. He has strongly opposed the current administration and is a very solid American, even if he does live in Pittsburgh.
His recitation on ketchup was revealing and humorous.
The “ Heinz 57 is bad “stigma is unwarranted.
Don’t forget the ever-loved, partially embalmed Nutsy Pelousy. She takes the cake as well as the trough.
We’ve heard something of Miz Fineswine lately, but nothing from Bahbrah (call me senator) Box(er).
One thing one can’t help but notice. The leftist females are by AND large ugly beasts resembling waterbuffalo.
There is something here as regards the number 57, as far as Bronco Bama is concerned.
There are, according to the sage from Kenya, 57 states.
He ordered 57 Christmas trees for his White Hut, from where he’ll be absent during the Christmas holiday.
Heinz-Kerry lives like a king on the proceeds from a company that produces 57 varieties.
However Kerry’s hausfrau receives income from H. J. Heinz. Her late husband, of course, was a RINO who found more fun in politics as a hobby as opposed to heading up his family’s business.
Only by marriage. I have not purchased a Heinz product since... and I never will again.
LLS
I left out “lie at any cost” Pelosi because she is not Speaker and let’s pray she does not get back in otherwise she will be as nasty as Harry Reid.
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