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Outrageous: HIV+ hospice nurse to be deported over minor legal issue
There are major shortages of HIV medications in his native country. Sending the legal immigrant back would amount to a death sentence.
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Trans activist Kristin Beck tells TSA: “We are real people with real feelings”
“How do we train Civilian Law Enforcement to see every citizen they approach as a brother or sister? As a citizen? As a Human?”
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Raid of Rentboy.com by Homeland Security stirs anger
The takedown of the popular escorting website has prompted protests accusing federal authorities of anti-gay bias — and raises questions about why they singled out the site.
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Should sex work be a crime?
Last week’s bust on Rentboy.com raises a lot of questions about sex work and whether or not it should be criminalized. Matt Baume asks: What was The Department of Homeland $ecurity thinking?
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Key official in ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell’ repeal confirmed as Homeland Security secretary
WASHINGTON — Democrats used their newly initiated lower threshold for defeating filibusters Monday to win Senate confirmation of President Barack Obama’s nomination of former top Pentagon lawyer Jeh C. Johnson to be Secretary of Homeland Security.
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Homeland Security employee behind racist, homophobic website
WASHINGTON — A Homeland Security employee is the operator of a racist and homophobic website predicting and advocating a race war, a department official said Thursday.
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Napolitano: Homeland Security to process same-sex immigration benefits
WASHINGTON — Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano says the government will start reviewing applications for green cards and other immigration benefits for same-sex couples.
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Gillibrand leads renewed call to help bi-national couples
The junior senator from New York is taking up the lead on a renewed call for administrative action to help bi-national same-sex couples in anticipation of a ruling from the Supreme Court on the Defense of Marriage Act. In a letter sent out Thursday, Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.) and other U.S. senators call on the […]
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Obama administration issues written deportation guidelines
New guidance from the Department of Homeland Security stipulating that gay and lesbian bi-national couples are families spells out three criteria for immigration officials who are determining whether to exercise prosecutorial discretion in potential deportation cases.
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DHS to spell out LGBT protections in guidance to immigration officials
The Department of Homeland Security intends to spell out in written guidance that immigration officers should consider “long-term, same-sex partners” as families when considering whether to exercise prosecutorial discretion in the potential deportation of an undocumented immigrant.