DC’s favorite baseball team, the Nationals, lost to the San Francisco Giants in extra innings 4-2 when the Giants scored a run in the ninth to tie, and World Series hero Pablo Sandoval hit a walk-off homer in the 10th.
Back in DC, also in extra innings, the Senate Judiciary Committee voted that immigration reform package out of mark up and on to the Senate floor, 13-5.
Hard to say who won there.
The Gang of Eight’s compromise is still together, and a pathway to citizenship is still in play for 11 million undocumented immigrants.
But Asian Americans failed to get deleted provisions in the current law restored.
And in the biggest blow, same-sex advocates couldn’t even get a vote on an amendment that would allow for bi-national partners to re-unite.
Same-sex marriage is hard enough. Same sex immigration not even in the discussion.
Discrimination continues. That’s why 13-5 isn’t quite the victory it could have been.
See my 5/22 post on the Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund blog.
