Mickey and Out4Immigration was quoted in an article by the Bay Area Reporter today.
You can read the full article here. I am just excerpting a few paragraph which included the quote from Out4Immigration and Mickey.
Immigration bill re-introduced in Congress
by Lisa Keen
Representative Jerrold Nadler re-introduced UAFA last week.
Saying that now there's a president in the White House who is not a "guaranteed veto" for the legislation, Representative Jerrold Nadler (D-New York) last week re-introduced a bill seeking to enable gay Americans to sponsor their foreign same-sex partners for legal residency in the United States.
Senator Patrick Leahy (D-Vermont) re-introduced the companion bill in the Senate.
Speaking to reporters on a telephone conference call Thursday, February 12, Nadler said it would be hard to say what the "odds" are for the bill – the Uniting American Families Act – to pass.
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Out4Immigration, another LGBT advocacy group, expressed its hope that the bill will get a hearing. It noted this was the sixth time the legislation has been introduced.
"Today marks a fresh beginning for change toward the discrimination faced by same-sex binational couples," said Mickey Lim, vice president of the organization.
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