Update later in the day: It appears that this bill is a way to begin breaking the so-called comprehensive immigration reform bill that was defeated in the summer of 2007, into smaller pieces. See SEIU website here.
This morning when I was visiting the Lutheran Immigration and Refugee Service (LIRS) website to prepare my earlier post, I happened across their pitch for support of the United American Families Act (UAFA) which among other things extends immigration rights to anyone in a “permanent partnership” with someone already here in the US.
We learned that “Permanent partnership” is defined as:
The term “permanent partnership” means the relationship that exists between two permanent partners.
I kid you not! And, by the way, LIRS (in that pitch linked above) never mentions to its supporters this “permanent partners” business.
Family Reunification is suspended.
We already know that the P-3 Family Reunification program has been suspended worldwide and as far as I know it still is due to widespread immigration fraud resulting from mostly Africans lying on their applications to re-join their supposed “family” in the US. Now we are going to extend rights to this vague category of permanent partners, and mind you, this does not mean only married partners!
I still want to know how LIRS can spend time and money lobbying Congress. On their site they tell people how to write to legislators on the UAFA. Are they using our money, our taxpayer money? And, shouldn’t they use every bit of time and money taking care of the refugees they are reportedly leaving in a lurch in New Hampshire and elsewhere.