A same-sex married couple in California received a two-year reprieve on an imminent deportation order at their last-chance hearing this morning. From Lavi Soloway’s Stop The Deportations blog:
SAN FRANCISCO, CA – This morning in San Francisco, Doug Gentry and Alex Benshimol — a married binational same-sex couple — appeared before Immigration Judge Marilyn Teeter for a deportation hearing and were permitted to remain in the country despite the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA), the law that prohibits the recognition of same-sex marriages by the federal government.
This is the latest in a series of recent court rulings that have demonstrated the inequality that DOMA forces same-sex couples to live under.
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On Tuesday, using the President Obama’s recent decision to no loner defend the constitutionality of DOMA as their main argument, Monica Alcota and her wife, Cristina Ojeda, will stand in front of an immigration judge in New York and request that deportation charges against Alcota be dropped and she be issued a green card. The group Stop The Deportations has issued the following announcement about the case:
