{"id":7119,"date":"2014-09-05T12:10:14","date_gmt":"2014-09-05T16:10:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gayfriendschat.com\/socialblog\/lgbt-leaders-americas-immigration-system-is-broken\/"},"modified":"2014-09-05T12:10:14","modified_gmt":"2014-09-05T16:10:14","slug":"lgbt-leaders-americas-immigration-system-is-broken","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gayfriendschat.com\/socialblog\/lgbt-leaders-americas-immigration-system-is-broken\/","title":{"rendered":"LGBT Leaders: \u201cAmerica\u2019s Immigration System is Broken\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>LGBT Leaders: \u201cAmerica\u2019s Immigration System is Broken\u201d<\/b><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/hrc-assets.s3-website-us-east-1.amazonaws.com\/\/files\/images\/blog\/immigration_blog_263.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>                        In an op-ed for The Advocate, Ana Ma, COO and chief of staff of HRC, and Matthew McClellan, the executive director of the National Council of La Raza Action Fund, urge President Obama to take action on immigration reform.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/HRC.org\" class=\"autohyperlink\">HRC.org<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hrc.org\/blog\/entry\/lgbt-leaders-americas-immigration-system-is-broken?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss-feed\" class=\"autohyperlink\">www.hrc.org\/blog\/entry\/lgbt-leaders-americas-immigration-system-is-broken?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss-feed<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LGBT Leaders: \u201cAmerica\u2019s Immigration System is Broken\u201d In an op-ed for The Advocate, Ana Ma, COO and chief of staff of HRC, and Matthew McClellan, the executive director of the National Council of La Raza Action Fund, urge President Obama to take action on immigration reform. <a href=\"http:\/\/HRC.org\" class=\"autohyperlink\">HRC.org<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hrc.org\/blog\/entry\/lgbt-leaders-americas-immigration-system-is-broken?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss-feed\" class=\"autohyperlink\">www.hrc.org\/blog\/entry\/lgbt-leaders-americas-immigration-system-is-broken?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss-feed<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2466,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7119","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-misc"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>LGBT Leaders: \u201cAmerica\u2019s Immigration System is Broken\u201d - GAYFRIENDSCHAT.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.gayfriendschat.com\/socialblog\/lgbt-leaders-americas-immigration-system-is-broken\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"LGBT Leaders: \u201cAmerica\u2019s Immigration System is Broken\u201d - GAYFRIENDSCHAT.com\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"LGBT Leaders: \u201cAmerica\u2019s Immigration System is Broken\u201d In an op-ed for The Advocate, Ana Ma, COO and chief of staff of HRC, and Matthew McClellan, the executive director of the National Council of La Raza Action Fund, urge President Obama to take action on immigration reform. 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