Kerry announcing visa changes that will grant same-sex “spouses” the same immigration benefits extended to married couples.

ADAM writes:

This photo of Kerry announcing visa changes to allow same-sex “spouses” the same immigration benefits as married couples is the first thing that greeted me at the top of the homepage for the U.S. Department of State when I visited that website yesterday as I was preparing to travel abroad next week.

I had heard of this policy change before, but still there’s something shocking about seeing it in print and promoted as the top news item at the State Department website. I understand that marriage fraud is a fairly common way for unscrupulous individuals to gain entry and residency to the U.S. As it is, immigration officials have the difficult task of interviewing couples to determine whether a marriage is real or a sham. The problem with same-sex couples is that their union is by-definition a sham, as “marriage” between two people of the same sex has no basis in tradition, history, or law, and because such a union cannot produce children. I’m trying to imagine the kind of questions the immigration officer could ask to determine if the homosexual couple’s “marriage” is legitimate or a sham. How awkward!

I predict that this policy will result in a dramatic increase in marriage fraud for purposes of immigration, as there will be no way to legitimately screen out sham marriages. In the current political climate, any immigration officer who questions the legitimacy of a particular homosexual couple’s “marriage” will be accused of homophobia; the officer will face subtle and not-so-subtle persecutions in his workplace, may be overlooked for promotions, and will possibly even be forced out of his job.

I think an unintended side effect of this policy change will be that marriage fraud will increase for opposite-sex couples as well because everyone on both sides — the applicants and the officials — will realize that the screening process has no legitimacy, and most applicants will simply be rubber-stamped as a routine.

This policy will make the U.S. a net importer of homosexuals, bringing in persecuted and politicized homosexual activists from around the world to increase the level of constant agitation and propaganda we are subjected to. It will also have the effect of importing a significant number of homosexual men who are infected with HIV and other diseases; the responsibility and expense of treating the immigrants’ chronic health conditions will fall upon Americans in the form of higher insurance premiums and taxes. (Recall that in 2010, the Obama administration ended the HIV travel ban, so carriers of this deadly and communicable disease are now allowed to enter the U.S.) I also predict an increase in sex tourism, as homosexual American men will travel abroad for the purpose of picking up men; also homosexual men from abroad will come as tourists to “gay meccas” such as San Francisco and they will never go home.

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Rita Jane writes:

My husband immigrated here by marriage, so we’ve been through the process. The reality is, immigration doesn’t care if your relationship is real. What they care about is that you show evidence that you’ve built a life together. No one at USCIS ever asked me if I loved my husband, but they did ask for evidence that we’d “intermingled our assets.” So I showed them several years of checking, savings and credit card statements, photographs and plane tickets proving we were in the same place at the same time, the joint lease for our apartment, and affidavits from family members attesting that we acted as a married couple. If we’d been able to have a child, I would have shown them his birth certificate as well, as another sign of our commitment. We needed to stay married for two years for my husband to get a permanent green card, at which point he could have divorced me and kept the green card. (Obviously, he didn’t.) Had we been so inclined, this system would have been almost comically easy to game. Unless you are staggeringly incompetent, you can get a green card through marriage.

Alex writes:

Adam writes:

I’m trying to imagine the kind of questions the immigration officer could ask to determine if the homosexual couple’s “marriage” is legitimate or a sham.

They’ll adopt the policy of don’t ask, don’t tell.

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