{"id":34696,"date":"2013-03-27T10:15:53","date_gmt":"2013-03-27T17:15:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/?p=34696"},"modified":"2013-03-27T10:15:53","modified_gmt":"2013-03-27T17:15:53","slug":"abc-doma-ruling-could-mean-green-cards-for-gay-immigrants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/2013\/03\/27\/abc-doma-ruling-could-mean-green-cards-for-gay-immigrants\/","title":{"rendered":"ABC: DOMA Ruling Could Mean Green Cards for Gay Immigrants"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> The issue of whether the federal government&#8217;s definition of marriage should expand to include gay couples that&#8217;s currently making its way through the U.S. Supreme Court is particularly poignant for immigrant couples like Santiago Ortiz and Pablo Garcia. The ruling could mean a lifetime together or the constant fear of separation.<\/p>\n<p>Ortiz, a Puerto Rican-American who was born in New York, and Garcia, a Venezuelan native, fell in love a quarter century ago and married in Connecticut in May 2011. The couple wanted to live together, especially since Ortiz is HIV-positive and they were unsure how long he might have. So Garcia got a six-month tourist visa in the late 1980s and was able to renew it for one year.<\/p>\n<p>But the federal government doesn&#8217;t recognize the two men as relatives, meaning Garcia cannot get a green card as Ortiz&#8217;s husband. Unable to renew the visa again and ineligible for a green card, the couple made the decision to have Garcia stay in the country without papers, and he has lived that way for more than 20 years. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/ABC_Univision\/News\/doma-ruling-benefits-gay-immigrants\/story?id=18815795#.UVMo9zc4edk\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\nClick here for the full story.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The issue of whether the federal government&#8217;s definition of marriage should expand to include gay couples that&#8217;s currently making its way through the U.S. Supreme Court is particularly poignant for immigrant couples like Santiago Ortiz and Pablo Garcia. The ruling could mean a lifetime together or the constant fear of separation. Ortiz, a Puerto Rican-American [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34696","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-important-news-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34696","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34696"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34696\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34696"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34696"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34696"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}