Republicans Pit Gays Against Undocumented Workers

                                                                   

Now the game of chairs is been changed in Washington once more by the GOP. Remember on the past election when Undocumented workers were terrorists, bad people taking your job? Now they are ok with a path to citizenship. How? What? This month there is a bigger boogie man: Gays whose partner is an american.  They are the bad flavor of the month. Undocumented, a path. Gays, NO soup for you!
                                                                         

Republicans in their eternal opposition to anything that would help any human being that makes less than $250,000 managed to pit gay partners of american citizens (something which in the straight world presents no problem since the law says what to do for opposite sex couples)—to all undocumented people living in the USA. That is something monumental. Gays with Partners Vs. the cook at your favorite restaurant or the person that does your hair.

Everybody agrees including the republicans that the status quo in dealing with the undocumented living in the US is not working and all we are getting for it,  is a lack of collecting taxes for those working, having to cover medical expenses and having no control in their employment, wages, etc. In a world that we spend billions trying to know who enters, stays or leaves the country we have millions of undocumented people that we do not know who they are.  This being a nation in the crosshairs of terrorism and no way to at least know the people that enter and leave within the borders.

Even with the changes that are happening once the American people, over half the country (over 53%) found out what bigot, homophobic people were selling was a pack of lies.  For example gays could not be: Teachers, Law enforcement, Military, Doctors, Truck drivers,Bus drivers, Pilots, etc. on the other hand they could be as long as they were willing to get fired if they were found out: Hair stylists, actors, nurses, secretaries, morgue embalmers and  Im not forgetting, Interior decorators.

If anyone could tell me the reasoning? No Problem I have heard the reasoning since I was a kid. The only way my brain could put it together was that gay people were untrustworthy very sick people and I should stay away from them. But actually there is no reason but not strange is that all the excuses used to keep gays out have been used before for other people, blacks, chinese, vietnamese etc.

That package of goods is no longer sellable. But leave it to some people that will never change being what they are no matter what, they have found a way to pit one group against the other. But when you really look at it what they’ve done is split the same group being that on both cases we are talking about people that needs documentation. In one case they need it because their partner is an american or because they are here and they are not leaving. Even the more moderate republicans were for the undocumented bill. However the neo conservatives pulled the plug.

They told Vermont Democratic Senator Patrick Leahy that unless he pulled his bill, which is the immigration bill they were going to do what they have been doing since Pres. Obama took Office:
Republicans called the amendment a “poison pill” and threatened to sink more than 300 amendments introduced to the bill, which includes a pathway to citizenship for undocumented immigrants already in the United States.
There are currently 28,574 same-sex couples living in United States, including 1,215 in Massachusetts, in which one partner is a United States citizen and the other is not, according to a study by Craig Konnoth and Gary Gates of the Williams Institute at the University of California, Los Angeles.
The amendment would have granted citizenship to any immigrant who could prove to be in a monogamous, financially interdependent relationship with an American citizen.
Gay advocacy groups are pressuring Leahy to bring the amendment up as a stand-alone bill when the Senate begins floor debates on immigration next month, but advocates said the chance of passing a bill like it is slim when not included in a broader package.

The Associated Press reported that President Obama asked Leahy to withhold the amendment from the broader immigration bill, but neither Leahy nor White House spokesman Jay Carney would confirm that the conversation took place.

Despite the setbacks, gay rights activists remain hopeful that the tide will soon change in their favor.

Adam Gonzalez, Publisher