No wonder this sort of thing is so important. [San Angelo Standard-Times]
Texas Mayor Quits Because U.S. Won’t Give Citizenship to Mexican Boyfriend
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InExile
If congress would just pass the UNITING AMERICAN FAMILIES ACT, this would not have to happen. Gay couples have no rights to sponsor their same sex partners. Most face separation or have to move to a foreign country like my partner and I did 3 years ago.
Heterosexual couples can easily obtain a visa for their spouse to stay in the US!
mick
Well if he can afford to quit a job in this economy good for him.
Alec
@InExile: Yup. Need to get that one passed.
@mick: In one of the articles I read the salary was quoted at $600 per year. I’m pretty sure he does something else to pay for, you know, living. 🙂
HYHYBT
@mick: The linked article says being mayor there only pays $600 a year, so if it was a major part of his income he was in trouble anyway.
Chris_Yes that one
GIRLS PLEASE,
Let him apply and go through the rigors like everyone else did who legally migrated to America!
unclemike
@Chris_Yes that one: That’s kind of the point, Chris. Not everybody who is now legally in the states went through all the rigors like everyone else.
If they were the spouse of a citizen, that is.
Why should my same-sex partner, stuck in Hong Kong, not be able to be sponsored by me? I pay taxes, too, you know.
An Other Greek
@Chris_Yes that one:
uhmm, no girl, you please.
Rigors?
What rigors? If by rigors you mean getting married to a citizen and then being admitted legally to the US, well, then bring it on.
Your comment dismisses the topic of discussion and regurgitates the same, tired, xenophobic punchline.
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schlukitz
@Chris_Yes that one:
How arrogant and cavalier of you.
Your attitude reeks of “It’s no skin off my ass, so why should I care?”
If you can’t stand up for another person’s civil rights, they why should anyone bother standing up for yours?
Try walking in another man’s moccasins before taking a dump on someone else’s parade, why don’t you?
As Another Greek said in essence, if you don’t have anything good to say, then don’t say anything.
BrianZ
We apparently have a few posters who didn’t read the associated article. They have been dating for less than 3 months. So why should he have citizenship after 3 months? So they can, according to the ex-mayor “give this a chance”?
While the immigration reform debate shall surely rage on I would find it highly unlikely that anyone is arguing that this guy should be afforded US citizenship for the purpose of exploring their blossoming relationship.
While the exlusion of gay relationships from consideration in immigration issues is of great concern, this is hardly the poster case for a call to action, IMO. Especially if you do more than, say, read the article headline.
Enrik
They just met last week and the boy is 18! Once Mr Mayor wakes up in some alley missing his wallet and a kidney, he’ll reconsider.
Lou
Nobody gets US citizenship just by getting married to a legal US resident or US citizen, first one has to become a resident and after five years apply for naturalization…
mb00
@mick: shh, I heard that.
mb00
@BrianZ: I agree with you BrianZ. My parents moved us to California in 1978, when I was 8 y.o. and it took us a long time then to go through all the motions of getting legal immigration papers. We were ripped off by attorneys who were there to collect my dad’s hard earned money and then disappeared, only to have him start the process all over again. It was hard. But they my dad worked hard for us and we’re all happy to not just be immigrants, but U.S. Citizens as well. So for some mayor to want to have the U.S. bypass all those families that have been following the slow-as-molasses steps of the INS process, to offer his may or may not be his bf any longer legal status is preposterous.