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HRC is proud to partner with Mi Familia Vota, a national organization working to unite the Latino community and its allies to ensure social and economic justice through increased civic participation, to contact HRC members and supporters in Nevada.

Last night, an audience of 65 was deeply moved by story of a bi-national same-sex couple forced to make the difficult choice to leave the United States in order to stay together.

Labor, sacrifice and justice are all part of the foundation of this country. They also play a huge role in the stories of so many of the immigrants who have come to America to seek a better life for themselves and their families.

Unfair U.S. immigration laws are forcing loving, married, same-sex couples to leave the country or be torn apart.

LGBT people face the constant pressure of separation from our loved ones: by a family who forces us to choose between them or someone else we equally love, by acommunity that doesn’t recognize us as parents to the children we adopt, by laws that treat us and our partners as strangers to each other and leave us no choice but to live countries apart.