The US Senate Judiciary Committee is holding a hearing on the Uniting American Families Act (UAFA), which “would allow gay and lesbian Americans and permanent residents to sponsor their foreign-born partners for legal residency in the United States.”
The official (currently) live stream of the hearing can be found here. Darned if I’m blocked from it at work. (The Washington Blade is supplying some details from the hearing on twitter. Follow them here.)
Scheduled to appear before the committee are Shirley Tan, lesbian mother scheduled to be separated from her American partner of 23 years; Gordon Stewart, US citizen who has moved to London because the US government won’t allow him to sponsor his Brazilian partner; Julian Bond, Chairman of the NAACP; Christopher Nugent, Co-Chair of the Committee on the Rights of Immigrants of the American Bar Association; Roy Beck, President of NumbersUSA Education& Research Foundation; and Jessica Vaughan, Director of Policy Studies at the Center for Immigration Studies.
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