Josh Vandiver, left, and his husband, Henry Velandia, outside the immigration court in Newark on Friday.
Posted on 05/07/2011 3:47:16 PM PDT by billorites
An immigration judge in Newark on Friday suspended the deportation of a Venezuelan man who is married to an American man, responding to an unusual signal this week from the Obama administration that it is exploring legal avenues for recognizing same-sex marriages in immigration cases.
The Venezuelan, Henry Velandia, had been awaiting the hearing with dread, since immigration authorities had said it was the last step before his deportation. Mr. Velandia, a dancer, was legally married last year in Connecticut to Josh Vandiver, a graduate student at Princeton. Mr. Velandia was denied legal residency as Mr. Vandiver’s spouse because under a federal law, the Defense of Marriage Act, immigration authorities do not recognize same-sex marriage.
On Thursday, Attorney General Eric Holder Jr. intervened in a different immigration case involving a same-sex couple, suspending the deportation of a man from Ireland and sending his case back to the immigration appeals court, asking it to consider several possible grounds on which the Irishman might qualify for legal residency.
On Thursday, Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. intervened in a different immigration case involving a same-sex couple, suspending the deportation of a man from Ireland and sending his case back to the immigration appeals court, asking it to consider several possible grounds on which the Irishman might qualify for legal residency.
Citing the move by the attorney general, Judge Alberto J. Riefkohl of immigration court in Newark postponed Mr. Velandia’s deportation until December at the earliest. The judge said he wanted to allow time for the attorney general and the appeals court to work out whether a gay partner might be eligible under some circumstances for residency.
Gay rights advocates said the back-to-back developments were an important sign that the Obama administration was working to bring consistency to its policy on same-sex marriage.
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Josh Vandiver, left, and his husband, Henry Velandia, outside the immigration court in Newark on Friday.
Josh Vandiver?
Josh Mandiver more likely...
Unconstitutional.... period!
The “guy” is a Salsa dancer!
“Would you like some salsa on your tossed salad?”
Democrats LOVE homosexuals. They have LOTS of expendable income that can be converted to tax dollars.
UUUGGGHHH!
Who’s pitching and who’s catching?
This ruling could spur a whole new cottage industry dealing with “mail order brides”.
No relation, but almost as amusing.
Boy, I hope I'm smart enough to stop drinking before I get to Wilbur's point.
I have given up on this heathen country.
Ciao, I guess.
In my best Church Lady voice, "ahhh, isn't that special."
http://www.gopetition.com/petitions/saveourmarriage.html
The Defense of Marriage Act passed.
The (so-called) DREAM act did not pass.
And yet politicians and the legal arm of the executive branch use their political power to circumvent the law by refusing to deport illegal aliens.
What shall we call that? I will suggest we call it what it is: “lawlessness.”
We'll act as if a law we don't like didn't pass and refuse to defend it in the courts rather than ask the legislative body to repeal it and we'll act like a law we want, yet couldn't pass, did pass rather than try for the umpteenth time in the legislative body to get it passed!
For a guy who never worked outside of a legislative body he sure hates them. On second thought, maybe that's why.
FDR acted with similar arrogance with his effort to pack SCOTUS because it was killing his New Deal policies. In the end, because he served a dozen years, he ended up appointing nearly every spot on the court.
Beyond the economy disaster, we can ill afford Obama for another four years. One top of extrajudicial actions like the lawlessness you point out, additional SCOTUS appointments alone would be catastrophic as Republicans won't stand against the extremists he taps.
We need to split this nation’s territory. Give the Obama voters, the homos, the liberals and druggies some of the states .......
....... and give us the rest
So if Obama wants to start recognizing same-sex marriages in immigration cases than he will be forced to say marraige is not just between a man and a woman, to all the Churches,etc,etc and apply this to all the same sex marriages across America and those to come.
That picture made me gag.
Deport them both. The less homos in the US, the better. They’d probably like it better under Hugo, anyway.
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