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AIDS-Afflicted US Citizen Urges Obama Admin to Stop Deportation of Australian Husband 2 of 2
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3:52Now PlayingDemocracyNow.org - The Obama administration's enforcement of the Defense of Marriage Act is threatening to tear apart the seven-year marriage of a bi-national gay couple in San Francisco. Bradford Wells, a U.S. citizen, and Anthony John Makk, an Australian national, have lived together for 19 years and were among the first same-sex couples to legally marry in Massachusetts. Anthony is also the primary caretaker for his husband, who has HIV-AIDS. Makk is facing deportation this month after the Obama administration denied them the same immigration benefits routinely given to opposite-sex couples. The decision is based on the so-called Defense of Marriage Act, the 1996 law known as DOMA which denies federal benefits to same-sex couples. The Obama administration has said it would no longer defend DOMA in the courts, but the law still remains in effect. Democracy Now! talks to the couple, Bradford Wells and Anthony John Makk, based in San Francisco. Also interviewed is Rachel Tiven, Executive Director of Immigration Equality.
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