All walls of life indeed.
Posted on 12/25/2007 9:39:56 AM PST by chicagolady
Chicago's immigrant rights movement was on the verge of making history, and Nicole Perez was ready to lend her voice when she was told, with an angry sneer, that she was not welcome.
That was March 10, 2006. Perez and her lesbian partner, Xiomara Santana, had joined more than 100,000 demonstrators in the Loop for a march that kicked off a nationwide struggle for immigrant rights. Holding hands, the U.S.-born women looked at the Latino faces around them and were reminded of their own families.
Then an elderly man 2 feet away cursed at the couple, spitting out: "Why are you here?"
"I was like: 'We're all here for the same reason. This is as much my issue as it is yours,'" Perez, 25, said, recalling her tears of anger as others at the march laughingly trotted away from a gay and lesbian banner nearby for fear of being associated with the group.
Almost two years later, the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community is pushing for more recognition in an immigration movement that includes the Catholic Church and others with conservative views about sexual orientation.
Local activists launched a Global Gays Initiative this month to highlight immigration concerns specific to their community and to provide legal aid and other assistance to gays, lesbians and others who have felt ostracized by mainstream immigrant groups.
Those organizations have paid scant attention to immigration battles in the lesbian and gay community, said Tania Unzueta, a Pilsen-based activist who highlights such stories as a host for Radio Arte, an FM station affiliated with the Mexican Fine Arts Center Museum.
For instance, barely a word was spoken about the case of Victoria Arellano, a transgender woman with AIDS who arrived illegally from Mexico and died this summer in a detention center in
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All walls of life indeed.
Um, you might want to look up the facts before you type. Aurellano arrived in the United States as a small child... the transgederism and AIDS infection happened in the U.S.
Even if you think we should deport otherwise law-abiding adults because their parents broke some law 20 or more years ago (is there a statue of limitations on sins of the fathers... and when did Mexican-born George W. Romney get his citizenship? Is Mitt an “anchor baby”?) — it was not a capital offense. Denying medical care did make it fatal to this federal prisoner.
So, as to why Arellano hadn’t sought medical treatment in Mexico... uh, because she’d (or he’d) didn’t live there?
I don't slander "The Catholic Church", pal. I tell the truth about people like L.A. "Cardinal" Roger Mahony because he is an illegal alien-coddling traitorous creep who should be put in jail, or at the very least have his tax-exempt status yanked away. Religion has got nothing to do with it. This is about politics.
People who believe we should not enforce the laws of this nation creep me out. Are you one of those when it comes to illegal immigration?
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“For instance, barely a word was spoken about the case of Victoria Arellano, a transgender woman with AIDS who arrived illegally from Mexico”
There’s no such thing as “trans-gender” people. The guy was a cross dresser, period. Call it what it is and quit sugarcoating it.
George W. Romney’s parents were citizens of the United States. Any child of theirs, born anywhere in the world, would be entitled to US citizenship because they were clearly under US jurisdiction.
Willard Romney is a child of American parents who were themselves children of American parents.
Their Catholic status ought to be revoked too.
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Yeah, Sodom was a community...was.
Sheesh. I’m speechless.
This is why DOMA ‘96 is just a tissue. One executive order and immigration visa go to homosexual sex partners as a “spouse”.
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