The following op-ed was published on New American Media about the need to make sure that Comprehensive Immigration Reform includes LGBT Families!

On April 29th, 2010, Sen Schumer, Sen Reid, Sen Menendez, Sen Durbin, Sen Feinstein and Sen Leahy introduced a framework for Comprehensive Immigration Reform (CIR) providing a blueprint of what the upcoming CIR bill will look like.

One year ago, Gina Caprio, an American citizen living in Sacramento, CA was determined to do something to change the way unjust US immigration law was affecting her life. Caprio had fallen in love with someone in the UK a few years earlier. The relationship had taken the usual twists and turns associated with a long-distance romance, but when Caprio and her partner decided they wanted to live together in the US, a door slammed shut.

from LGBT Immigration Rights on change.org 

The New York Times reported on Nov 13th, 2009, that White House will start the push for Immigration Reform early next year (White House to Begin Push on Immigration Overhaul in 2010).

On August 18^th, 2009, I appeared before the California Assembly’s Judiciary Committee with Ms Gina Caprio, Melanie Nathan, Equality California (EQCA