What's up with Comprehensive Immigration Reform?

This is just one of the many 'ideas' that we are paying our elected officials in Washington D.C. to consider and eventually – as always – vote for or at the very least get some earmarked porkulus money for it.

Of course we are talking about Rep. Michael Honda of California and his press conference in Washington, D.C., in which he announced introduction this week of the Reuniting Families Act, a comprehensive immigration package that includes allowing gay Americans to sponsor their partners for residency. (Please see article here.)


We have written on this "Reuniting Families Act" extensively on our two other sites. It is one issue to reunite family members; it is altogether a different issue to start reuniting American homosexuals with their partners for residency who live elsewhere.

Consider this if only for a moment – currently we have a movement going on in this country whereby gays and the entire LGBT community is protesting for equal civil rights. What? That was quite similar to our response. The LGBT movement is mean, packs a punch, and willfully shows its teeth.

No more is this clearly seen than in instances of same-sex marriage, inferred discrimination, special interest groups galore, and literally trampling the private information of others. I know, we know, that what a person contributes to a political campaign is of public record; however, it is altogether a different story to take the time, energy, and resources to procure the names of such and to try and destroy them. (Please see article.)

Please make no mistake about it – there is a huge difference between espousing one's particular beliefs; however, it is completely different to infringe on the civil and natural rights of others – to get what you want. That is the kind of behavior we expect from newborns, infants, and children, and not from trustworthy adults.

And unfortunately we don't always get those things we want; therefore, hopefully one can accept that and go on about life. Do we think it's fair for the State of California, who having initiated Proposition 8 to the ballot and once the results are made public for there to be reprisals? No. Do we think it's fair that the US Constitution to be manipulated in order for one to exclaim a 'perceived' right? No.

The bill’s Senate companion, introduced in the Senate by Sen. Robert Menendez of New Jersey, excludes the provision to end discrimination against same-sex partners. The Senate Judiciary Committee also held its first hearings Wednesday on a separate, stand-alone immigration bill that would end discrimination against LGBT families, the Uniting American Families Act, which has been introduced in both the House and Senate.

Altogether, four immigration bills are in process, three of which include protections for bi-national same-sex partners and their children. And to this we say – two enthusiastic thumbs down – this is once again an example of self-centered, egocentric behavior on behalf of the LGBT community and those special interest groups who support them.

It is one issue to 'reform' a faulty immigration system in our country; however, it is quite a different issue to 'reform' through adding more and more questionable items to it.