These should be the easy cases to take out of the deportation queue (assuming there are no criminal issues). Congress still has not righted this wrong and we're still waiting on the courts to declare the offensive Defense of Marriage Act unconstitutional. In the meantime, the White House still is preventing spouses from getting green cards. They do have the option of at least stopping deportation proceedings in all these cases under the new prosecutorial discretion policy. So why is this still happening?
The Denver Post reports on one such couple facing removal.
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Greg Siskind is a partner in Siskind Susser's Memphis, Tennessee, office. After graduating magna cum laude from Vanderbilt University, he received his Juris Doctorate from the University of Chicago. Mr. Siskind is a member of AILA, a board member of the Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society, and a member of the ABA, where he serves on the LPM Publishing Board as Marketing Vice Chairman. He is the author of several books, including the J Visa Guidebook and The Lawyer's Guide to Marketing on the Internet. Mr. Siskind practices all areas of immigration law, specializing in immigration matters of the health care and technology industries. He can be reached by email at gsiskind@visalaw.com.
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