On Dec 16th, 2009, Rep Gutierrez jump started the Comprehensive Immigration Reform debate by introducing a CIR bill called "Comprehensive Immigration Reform for America's Security and Prosperity Act" (CIR ASAP).  We are disappointed that however he left out LGBT Families or the language of Uniting American Families Act in his CIR bill.

If you have not participated in our petition to express disappointment at our exclusion, I would urge you to do so.  The link can be found here.

We are however continuing to educate our representatives and our senators 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 are however continuing to educate our representatives and our senators about the importance of the passage of Uniting American Families Act as well as ensuring that LGBT Families are included in any CIR bill.

On February 9th, 60 members of congress from the the Congressional LGBT Equality Caucus, Congressional Hispanic Caucus, Congressional Black Caucus and Congressional Asian Pacific American Caucus sent a letter to President Obama, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Sen Schumer, Rep Lofgrenexpressing their strong support for a comprehensive immigration reform bill that would end discrimination against LGBT binational families.

Just last week, on March 4th, 2010, Fair Immigration Reform Movement (FIRM) at the Center for Community Change, calls on Congress to include the Uniting American Families Act (UAFA) as part of comprehensive immigration reform. To read the statement put out by FIRM, click here.

Therefore, we should keep the pressure up and make sure that congress understand the issue and includes our families in any Comprehensive Immigration Reform.

This week we are urging Rep. Dennis Cardoza [D-CA-18], Rep. Jim Costa [D-CA-20], Rep. Charles Gonzalez [D-TX-20], Rep. John Salazar [D-CO-3], Rep. Ben Ray Lujan [D-NM-3] 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 senators 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 our 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