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Title: New Obama Policy: Deportations Coming to an End?
Post by: SandraJane on August 19, 2011, 03:23:39 AM
Posted on Advocate.com August 18, 2011 07:05:00 PM ET

New Obama Policy: Deportations Coming to an End?
By Lucas Grindley

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Deportations that break up binational same-sex couples could be ending if a new policy outlined today by the White House is implemented as described.

The White House announced that it will review many of the cases already in the system — some 300,000 — and then drop any it deems a "low priority." That could include spouses in binational LGBT couples.