The Obama administration recently announced a new immigration enforcement policy that will focus resources on high-priority individuals who pose a threat to national security and safety. Though the policy does not rule out enforcement for specific categories of undocumented immigrants, officials said it meant that cases involving same-sex couples and others with strong family ties in the U.S. would no longer be the focus of efforts to deport those in the country illegally.
"The new policy will end, at least for now, the deportations of gay people legally married to their same-sex American citizen partners, and it may extend to other people in same-sex partnerships," said Richard Socarides, who worked on LGBT issues in the Clinton administration.
No word yet on whether the policy will affect the deportation proceedings against John Makk.
