Tuesday, September 22, 2015

ILLEGALS Fight Texas’ Birth Certificate Rules for Their ANCHOR BABIES

An immigrant and her 2-year-old are plaintiffs in a 
lawsuit over Texas birth certificates. 
Credit Ilana Panich-Linsman/NYT
At the Republican debate on Wednesday and throughout the campaign, candidates led by Donald J. Trump have assailed illegal immigration, and some have questioned whether children who are born to immigrants in this country illegally should be considered American citizens.
A 2-year-old Texas girl who was born in the United
 States. Her parents cannot get her birth certificate, and
 are plaintiffs in a lawsuit against the state. 
Credit Ilana Panich-Linsman/NYT
But here on the Texas border some local officials are engaged in activities that go beyond talk, enforcing some of the toughest rules in the country limiting the types of ID parents can show to receive copies of birth certificates. The result has been a refusal to issue birth certificates to many of the Texas-born children of immigrants here illegally.
Texas has not directly challenged the citizenship of the children, which is granted by the 14th Amendment to anyone born in the United States. Many of them have birth certificates in the state’s database. It is just a matter of adequate identification, the state says.
Organizations that work on behalf of immigrants suspect that nativist sentiments are being turned into nativist policies, with the goal of making it harder for people in the country illegally to live and raise families in Texas.
Without a birth certificate, illegal immigrants say they cannot have newborns baptized, have had difficulty enrolling their children in day care and school and have lost or fear losing Medicaid coverage and other government services and benefits for their families. They said officials required birth certificates for these programs, as proof of parenthood or the child’s Texas birth. (bold print mine)
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3 comments:

Unknown said...

yeah someone is thinking right

Unknown said...

Too damn bad. 27 people using the same birth certificate

Unknown said...

Too damn bad. 27 people using the same birth certificate