This week's letter writing campaign will urge Rep. Tim Ryan (OH-17), Rep. Marcia Fudge (OH-11), Rep. Dina Titus (NV-3), Rep. Harry Mitchell (AZ-5) & Rep. John Hall (NY-19) to support Equal Immigration Rights for Same Sex Binational Couples by sponsoring the Uniting American Families Act as well ensure that LGBT Families are included in any Comprehensive Immigration Reform that will be introduced soon.

While there is no clear indication on whether LGBT Families or the language of Uniting American Families Act is going to be included into the CIR bill or not, we have been told to keep the pressure up and keep telling our congressional leaders in the Judiciary Committee that our families (LGBT Families) needs to be included.  

Our letter writing campaign continues to work to educate our congress representatives about the importance of the passage of Uniting American Families Act as well as ensuring that LGBT Families are included in any CIR bill.

We already have the support of 60 members of congress from the the Congressional LGBT Equality Caucus, Congressional Hispanic Caucus, Congressional Black Caucus and Congressional Asian Pacific American Caucus.  They sent a letter to President Obama, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Sen Schumer, Rep Lofgren expressing their strong support for a comprehensive immigration reform bill that would end discrimination against LGBT binational families.

We have also been working to get cities and county to sign on in support of the passage of Uniting American Families Act as well as write "Dear Colleague" letters to their congress representatives urging them to support and pass the Uniting American Families Act.

Therefore, we need your help to keep the pressure up and make sure that congress understand the issue and includes our families, LGBT families, in any Comprehensive Immigration Reform.

This week we are urging RRep. Tim Ryan (OH-17), Rep. Marcia Fudge (OH-11), Rep. Dina Titus (NV-3), Rep. Harry Mitchell (AZ-5) & Rep. John Hall (NY-19) to support equal immigration rights for same sex binational couples and sponsor the Uniting American Families Act.

We encourage you to take part in this campaign by using one of four options:

(1) The easiest one.   By clicking through and adding your name to this page, you would have sent ALL FIVE of the letters AT ONCE.  You can also provide the link to your friends and family to take action too!;

(2) Contact the 5 congress representatives listed here with your own letter, your own story; or

(3) Creating a booklet telling your story. See http://tinyurl.com/o4i-toolkit1 for more info on this option.

(4) Check out other actions on change.org's action page and sign the other week's action too to urge the other members of congress to sponsor and support the passage of Uniting American Families Act.

Thank you for taking action!

Out4Immigration is an all grassroots organization.  Each week we write to a list of representatives in Congress or the Senate to ask them to support equal immigration rights for Same-Sex Binational couples and to become a cosponsor of the Uniting American Families Act(UAFA) and to support an inclusive Comprehensive Immigration Reform that includes LGBT Families.  You can also find us on Blogger (out4immigration.blogspot.com), Facebook (facebook.com/out4immigration) and Twitter (@out4immigration)