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Trump Admin to Deny Visas to Same-Sex Partners of Diplomats
Trump and the Republicans who surround him are leading our government and country off a cliff. Give corporations and wealthy everything they want from money to eliminated regulations. Take away the hard-fought rights of anyone non-white (or non-male) they can. Hate and stupidity is the only way to conceive of such actions.
The Trump administration on Monday [October 1, 2018] began denying visas to same-sex domestic partners of foreign diplomats and United Nations employees, and requiring those already in the United States to get married by the end of the year or leave the country.
This hateful order comes despite the fact that the majority of countries do not recognize same-sex marriage and many same-sex couples face prosecution in their own countries.
....the new policy will impose undue hardships on foreign couples from countries that criminalize same-sex marriages.
Same-sex couples already inside of the United States could go to city hall and get married. But they could potentially be exposed to prosecution if they return to a country that criminalizes homosexuality or same-sex marriages.
Samantha Power, a former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, denounced the new policy on Twitter as “needlessly cruel & bigoted.” “State Dept. will no longer let same-sex domestic partners of UN employees get visas unless they are married,” she tweeted, noting that “only 12% of UN member states allow same-sex marriage.”
The new policy poses a number of risks for same-sex partners, according to Alfonso Nam, the president of U.N. Globe, a U.N. LGBTI staff advocacy organization.
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