This article says that in the United States same-sex couples "live under the threat of separation because federal law prohibits immigration authorities from treating them the same as married opposite-sex couples." The foreign-born same-sex spouses with thier American born partners live in a legal "limbo". In the eyes of the government, they are neither married or are they citizens. This brings on an emotional strain for the individuals they can not leave to visit loves ones in fear of not being allowed back in the country. Federic Deloizy a native of France says "It's dehumanizing." To show the inequality of this "If a U.S. citizen marries a foreigner of the opposite sex, he or she can apply for a green card for the spouse to say in the country and eventually become a citizen. That process isn't available to about 28,500 same-sex couples." Another point to show the inequality is that the 1996 Defense of Marriage Act blocks access of federal benefits to same-sex couples, which includes immigration. To me this is a big social problem on many of the reasons as I showed about inequality and this is a global problem as well, because it is even effecting individuals who are not native born. Inequality in the idea of marriage is a huge problem that needs to be addressed, but once it is there is always a backlash that comes from it. If one state passes rights then another state denies rights. Its a never ending battle that needs to be fixed, everyone deserves all the same rights no matter what sexual orientation they are or if they are native born or not and so on.
http://www.kansascity.com/2012/03/22/3506310/immigration-marriage-laws-leave.html
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