Gutierrez Calls for LGBT-Inclusive Immigration Reform
Posted on 05/21/2009 @ 10:19 AM
In an interview published today in The Chicago Tribune, Congressman Luis Gutierrez (pictured) – a key Congressional leader on immigration issues – says he supports including LGBT binational families in comprehensive immigration reform.
“The underlying part of any comprehensive immigration bill is family unity,” Gutierrez said in an interview with the Tribune. “We need to speak more clearly and more articulately and more frequently that the (lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender) community, and same-sex couples and their binational relationships, are part of families.”
“We need to build bridges between the LGBT community and the larger immigrant community,” Gutierrez said. “In the end, the bigger the tent we build, the more successful we’ll be.”
“The congressman has planned a meeting with immigrant and LGBT community leaders at noon Monday at the Center on Halsted in Chicago,” the paper notes. “He will be joined by U.S. Reps. Mike Quigley of Chicago and Jared Polis of Colorado, both Democrats.”
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