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Week 76--Tell Senator Menendez the UAFA must be included in CIR
  1. Signatures
    185 out of 500
    Petitioning
    1. Sen. Robert Menendez (NJ)
  2. Created By
    Amos Lim
    San Francisco, CA
About this Petition Petition Letter

 

Greeting O4I’ers!

 

The Out4Immigration weekly letter writing campaign resumes this week - Week 76 - with a letter to Sen. Robert Menendez (D-NJ) who is planning on introducing a Comprehensive Immigration Reform bill in the Senate very soon. We are urging Senator Menendez to include the Uniting American Families Act (UAFA; S.424) or its language into his bill so that same-sex bi-national couples will be a part of this legislation from the start.


This week we started calling Senator Menendez office and urging that he include UAFA. The response from his staffers has been positive. On Friday morning, one of our members was told, very politely, that the Senator is working to include UAFA in his bill. This is no doubt a result from the multitude of calls he has been getting since last Thursday morning. Let's put this over the top. Please sign and send this e-letter today, and urge all your family, friends and colleagues to do so, too.

 

To send your letter electronically to Senator Menendez through Change.org, just click on the link below:

 

Link here, I still have to read through the instructions and do that part.



This has been a significant week with  6 new cosponsors signing on to the UAFA, so let’s keep the momentum going!  If you haven't called Sen. Menendez's office yet, please do that, too. His number is: (202) 224-4744.

 

Thanks, and keep the faith!

 

Recent Signatures

UAFA, LGBT inclusion in CIR

Dear Senator Menendez,

Dear Senator Menendez,

The news of your intention to introduce a comprehensive immigration reform bill is received with high hopes. Immigration reform is a contentious issue with strong beliefs held throughout the country about what it should look like. We sincerely hope that your bill will include provisions for all families currently impacted by our broken immigration system, including same-sex binational couples.

You are aware about how the rights of US citizens are affected by current immigration law, due to your sponsorship of S.424, the Uniting American Families Act (UAFA). I am writing to you to ask specifically that this bill – or the language therein – be included in your CIR legislation.

Few people are aware that Americans in same-gender, long-term relationships have no legal recourse to sponsor their foreign partners for legal residency in this country. Currently, Americans in such relationships are faced with unacceptable choices: try to find a way for the foreign partner to stay in the country through visas related to work or education; attempt to keep the relationship alive long distance, which carries deep financial and emotional costs; or emigrate to one of the 22 countries in the world that recognize our relationships.

We are deeply grateful for your co-sponsorship of S.424, and hope that this commitment will extend to either including UAFA or keeping the language of the UAFA in CIR. To leave gay and lesbian Americans out of such legislation diminishes the ”comprehensive” nature of such a bill. Without including all who need comprehensive immigration reform in any bill labeled as such renders it “uncomprehensive”.

Thank you for your time and support on this important matter. Please do all within your power to make sure citizens like myself, who are personally affected by this issue, or who know someone that is, will benefit from legislation that is truly comprehensive in every sense of the word..



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