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Vermont resident Frances Herbert • Discussing the issues her wife, Takaka Ueda, is facing. Herbert is legally married to Ueda — a native of Japan and her partner of 13 years — and in shock, after the Department of Homeland Security sent a letter denying Ueda’s request to stay in the country. Ueda moved to the US from Japan in 1999, but is now living in the country illegally and faces deportation. Vermont’s congressional delegation has even stepped in, submitting a letter to the Department of Homeland Security, asking them to reconsider. Now the couple plans to fight the ruling, and the Defense of Marriage Act in general, in hopes of preventing this from happening to anyone else. Think they’ll succeed? source (via • follow)

This is why I haven’t forgiven Obama for not repealing DOMA.  Even if he’ll do it in his second term, which he’ll presumably have, there are people who are suffering now.  There are couples who are being forcibly split now, and he can help them, and he isn’t for political reasons.  I can’t forgive that.

(Source: shortformblog)