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Senator John Kerry joins 16 other Senators in urging delay of deportation rules on same-sex couples

By Bobby Caina Calvan

 |  Globe Staff  

  May 10, 2012

A day after President Obama made a historic announcement in support of gay marriage, 17 members of the US Senate, including Senator John Kerry of Massachusetts, urged the White House to defer enforcement of immigration restrictions on immigrants who risk deportation because of their same-sex marriages. In a letter sent today to the US Attorney General and the Secretary of Homeland Security, the senators said they were troubled that some that some immigration field offices “are apparently following a blanket policy to deny green card applications for all gay spouses.”

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