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Related: About this forumTrump Administration to LGBT Couples: Your 'Out of Wedlock' Kids Aren't Citizens
Children of U.S. citizens are falling victim to a policy that de-recognizes their parents marriageand strips them of their birthright citizenship.They first indicated that they needed proof of our marriage, which I found quite odd, Roee said. They needed the original marriage certificate, which we didnt have with us, but I didnt actually think anything more about it. I thought, We dont have time for this, well just deal with it in the U.S.
Roee and Adiel obtained Kessems Canadian passporta stopgap, they figured, until they could get her U.S. passport back homeand traveled back to their home in the United States.
But Kessem was about to become the latest victim of a government policy that effectively de-recognizes her parents marriage, granting her no automatic rights to American birthright citizenship despite the fact that both her fathers are U.S. citizens. That policy, Kessems fathers told The Daily Beast, poses a unique threat to LGBT families, and could change the decades-old legal understanding of what the word family even means.
This is a very clear attack on families, on American families, Roee, who married Adiel in California in 2013, told The Daily Beast. Denying American married couples their rights to pass their citizenship, that is flat-out discrimination, and everyone should be concerned about this.
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Trump Administration to LGBT Couples: Your 'Out of Wedlock' Kids Aren't Citizens (Original Post)
Duncan Grant
May 2019
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CaliforniaPeggy
(149,595 posts)1. Just one more reason to hate these hateful Republicans.
The sooner they're removed from our government, the sooner all of us can live our lives in peace.
Odoreida
(1,549 posts)2. It's even more insidious than the subject line implies.
More like ...
Trump Administration to LGBT Couples: Your 'Out of Wedlock' Kids Aren't Citizens ...
... because they aren't really your kids.
This has serious anti-gay implications even when there's no citizenship issue involved.
Odoreida
(1,549 posts)3. Friend of mine (not on the 'net) pointed out to me it's even worse than I said in my previous post.
If not their kid, the implication is they are trafficking.