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by Kris Larson
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| Amos and Mickey Lim. Photo: Jane Philomen Cleland | |||||||||
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In keeping with its reputation as a "sanctuary city," San Francisco will host an all-day Immigrant Rights Summit Saturday, September 15 to address issues facing the immigrant communities in America. According to the Immigrant Rights Commission, the purposes of the summit are to share best practices with other sanctuary cities, to develop the local immigrants' rights movement, and to discuss how a federal immigration reform bill might affect local resources.
The summit also will address the ways in which the LGBT community is affected by current immigration policies. Under current immigration law, a foreign national can be awarded citizenship by marrying an American citizen. But because the law does not permit same-sex partners to marry, a same-sex binational couple can be torn apart, even if they share custody of a child.
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