Love Sees No Borders Founder: Who are the Illegals?

“The recent immigration debate has stirred up a lot of emotions in this country. Not too long ago, the same emotions rose around the issue of same-sex marriage. As a Latina lesbian immigrant, I can’t help but feel continually targeted. On the one hand my immigrant brothers and sisters call me “immoral.” On the other hand my lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer brothers and sisters call me “illegal.” In the end, both only perpetuate the “otherness” stigma that affects immigrants and LGBTQ people. Sadly, both groups fail to see that they have more similarities than differences.

Both LGBTQ people and immigrants are accused of breaking “the law.” To some these are sodomy laws (repealed only as recently as 2003), to others immigration law. Yet powerful people wrote both legal codes to enforce their personal biases on those deemed “other.” In the heat of the argument, the humanity of people like me is completely lost since the “other” is less deserving, or needs to be eliminated somehow.”

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