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One threat haunting the immigration reform legislative debate was that the bipartisan coalition supporting comprehensive immigration reform would come apart over providing equal rights to same-sex married couples in the context of US immigration law. The DOMA decision largely ends that debate since the federal government is no longer able to discriminate between opposite sex and same sex couples married in US states where it is legal.