LGBT Immigrants & the DREAM
By Prerna Lal on 12/07/2010 @ 12:57 PM
In the coming days, Congress will vote on a critical piece of legislation that directly impacts many LGBT immigrants and their families. I’m writing today to ask for your help as that vote approaches.
Please take a moment and click here to call your Members of Congress and urge them to support the DREAM Act. Your call can help change the lives of young lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people.
I’m so proud to be a part of the Immigration Equality Action Fund’s board of directors, and to work, every day, for LGBT immigrant families. From building record support for the Uniting American Families Act to ensuring the inclusion of LGBT binational families in comprehensive immigration reform, the Action Fund is working to keep our families together, and to give LGBT immigrants the opportunity to build a new life here in America.
The DREAM Act would help countless LGBT young people — including me — do just that, too.
In addition to my service on the Action Fund’s board, I am also an out and proud DREAM Activist. There are many young people, like me, who are both LGBT and undocumented. Some of us are in binational relationships. All of us are committed to working with each other to end discriminatory immigration laws that seek to tear apart our families and limit our opportunities.
As part of the Immigration Equality Action Fund board, I know how hard everyone in our organization works to improve our immigration laws. All of us are fully committed to fixing our broken immigration system, and that includes passage of UAFA as well as the DREAM Act, too. Our country, and our LGBT community, needs both ... and by working together, we can do both, too.
Today, we have an opportunity to help young, LGBT immigrants and to forge a partnership that will help binational families in their work on Capitol Hill, too.
Please call your Members of Congress today and urge them to pass the DREAM Act.
When we stand together, everyone wins.
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