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Captive Gendersdetail appears to be a way to distance Tan from the “bad” Mexican immigrants.8. The People article also reported that they had even considered the possibility ofMercado transitioning as male so that they could get married as a heterosexualcouple—presumably with the hope that it would be easier for Mercado to sponsorTan as a spouse.9. See “Eithne Luibhéid and Bridget Anderson–Gendering Borders: An Exchange,”Re-Public: Re-imagining Democracy. http://www.re-public.gr/en/?p=471.10. See also Karma Chavez’s “Border (In)Securities: Normative and DifferentialBelonging in LGBTQ and Immigrant Rights Discourse,” Communication andCritical/Cultural Studies, Vol. 7, No. 2, 2010: p. 136–155. See also Eithne Luibhéid,Entry Denied: Controlling Sexuality at the Border (Minneapolis: Universityof Minnesota Press, 2002).11. The Social Security Administration sends “no-match” letters when the names orSocial Security numbers on an employer’s W-2 do not match SSA’s records. Ostensiblya measure to track fraudulent SSNs, the system is in fact so unreliablethat the Department of Homeland Security rescinded its “no-match” rule in late2009. For instance, this system cannot detect human errors such as misspellingsof names. Furthermore, although the SSA clearly states that the letter cannot beused as proof that an employee intentionally provided misinformation, unscrupulousemployers can use it to fire or intimidate workers who complain aboutworkplace conditions. http://www.nilc.org/immsemplymnt/ssa-nm_toolkit/index.htm.12. Also left out of the picture, via the lesbian domesticity of the Tan-Mercado family,is the more threatening and potential spectacle of a same-sex male couple. Itis clear that the gendered relationship between Tan and Mercado also facilitatedtheir acceptance—and it is highly unlikely that the sight of two gay men, invokingthe more threatening vision of gay sex, would have been as reassuring to thesenators or to the general public. In other words, the reassurance provided byTan and Mercado is a fragile one and does nothing to erase the fact that homosexualityand the state are still considered incompatible.13. Immigrants and especially queer immigrants with HIV/AIDS face multiplethreats to their safety and health. The United States instituted a bar against travelersand immigrants with HIV in 1987, and that had a dangerous effect on boththe spread of the epidemic and the health of the immigrant population. The banwas lifted in 2009, but there is little information about how that the governmentis going out of its way to now reach out to HIV-positive immigrants andencourage them to come forward for testing and treatment. Furthermore, withstates like Arizona enacting virulent anti-immigrant measures that will, alongwith other measures, cut off social and health services to the undocumented138