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Judge Halts Deportation of Henry Velandia
Sunday, 08 May 2011
by Vivienne Chen
A major victory for Princeton couple Joshua Vandiver GS and his husband Henry Velandia: an immigration judge in Newark ruled yesterday that Venezuelan-born Velandia’s deportation would be halted until December in light of developing national policy on the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA). The background: Vandiver met Velandia in 2006, and they legally married in
- Published in Politics, Princeton in the News
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deportation, DOMA, Henry velandia, Joshua Vandiver, President Obama, same-sex marriage
IN PRINT: Students protest against National Organization for Marriage
Friday, 15 May 2009
by Angela Wu
Waving umbrellas and posters, around 30 Princeton students danced and cheered in front of the National Organization for Marriage’s (NOM) Nassau Street offices Wednesday to voice disapproval of the group’s opposition to same-sex marriage. NOM, which was founded in 2007 by Princeton politics professor Robert George and Maggie Gallagher of the Institute for Marriage and