There has been quite a lot of news over the past couple of weeks regarding same sex immigration in the US.

Letter to Obama and Congress

A letter from 60 members of congress has been sent to Obama and Congressional Leaders to encourage the passing of legislation that would end discrimination in immigration law against same sex couples.  Unlike many other countries a US citizen cannot sponsor their foreign partner to live with them in their own country.  The letter is to encourage the passing of the Uniting American Families Act and include this in comprehensive immigration reform.  The 60 members who signed this is lead by Tammy Baldwin and the letter can be found here.

There was this story a little while ago suggesting the exclusion of UAFA from comprehensive immigration reform, whether it was true or not I do not know, the letter though will put added pressure on legislators to include it.  A list of those who signed the letter can be found here.

Immigration Equality Action Fund

Immigration Equality launched a video on Valentines Day documenting Shirley Tan’s story as a tool to lobby legislators and to raise money for the organizations efforts.  The video highlights a families day to day existence, which doesn’t differ from anybody else’s, but have the unenviable challenge of being pulled apart by unfair and draconian immigration legislation.  They have launched a new website yesterday called the Immigration Equality Action Fund.  This originally got launched on the Huffington Post website.  See the video at the end of this post.

Latest Co-sponsors

Unfortunately HR1024 in the House of Representatives has only 1 new co-sponsor since 6 November 2009 and that is Daniel Maffei of New York, making a total of 119 co-sponsors.  S424, in the Senate, has no change in co-sponsors since November remaining at 23.  HR2709, the Reuniting Families Act in the House of Representatives, has a total of 79 co-sponsors but no movement on that this year so far.