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MarkCharles

(2,261 posts)
Sat Feb 25, 2012, 09:16 AM Feb 2012

Homeland Security Warns Vermont Same-Sex Couple: You're Not Legally Married [View all]

News video from Vermont TV here.

http://crooksandliars.com/susie-madrak/homeland-security-warns-vermont-same-

This is why we need same-sex marriage rights on the federal level. This is just disgraceful. You'd think with all those dangerous medical marijuana dealers Homeland Security is hunting down, they'd be too busy to deport lawfully married spouses:

A lesbian couple in Vermont has been thrust into the national spotlight. They are legally married here, but not at the federal level. Now one of them is considered an illegal immigrant and is facing deportation.


They received a letter from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, which denied Ueda's request to stay in the county, a right granted to heterosexual spouses of different nationalities. Sadness quickly turned to anger.


United States law usually recognizes marriage laws of states. NOT in this case.

Disgusting!
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