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Old 09-10-2008, 01:07 PM
 
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BROWNSVILLE, Texas — Residents of the Rio Grande Valley have filed a class-action lawsuit against the federal government, claiming they are being denied passports because they are of Mexican descent and were born with the aid of midwives.

Attorneys from the American Civil Liberties Union, Refugio del Rio Grande Inc., and a law firm in Washington are aiding the nine named plaintiffs in the suit filed Tuesday in Brownsville. They say the problem appears to be limited to those with Hispanic surnames living along the U.S.-Mexico border.

"There's never been a question that they're U.S. citizens until they apply for a passport," said Robin Goldfaden of the ACLU's Immigrants' Rights Project.

Midwives often were used by border families who couldn't afford doctors and hospital care, but in the 1990s, dozens of midwives were convicted of forging birth certificates for children born in Mexico. So, the government has been demanding additional proof of citizenship.

State Department spokeswoman Nicole Thompson declined Wednesday to comment on the pending lawsuit but noted that the agency can't issue a passport — a document that means someone is legally a citizen — unless it has established the applicant is "more likely than not really a U.S. citizen."


http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/ap/tx/5993782.html (broken link)

It has become a proven fact that midwives created fraudulent documents in order to fraudulently claim babies from SOB as US citizens. The fact that the Alien Civil Liberties Union is a peititoner in this ridiculous claim pings my BS meter quite loudly.
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Old 09-10-2008, 02:18 PM
 
Location: San Diego
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Just another attempt at sneaking in under the wire. So big deal, they have to show some other document. boohoo

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Old 09-10-2008, 02:35 PM
 
Location: Maryland
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Apparently it's not enough for us to have millions of anchor babies born in this country who are draining our systems. Now, we have people who weren't even born here jumping on the ‘let’s abuse the 14th Amendment’ bandwagon. When will this madness end?
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Old 09-10-2008, 02:38 PM
 
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Apparently it's not enough for us to have millions of anchor babies born in this country who are draining our systems. Now, we have people who weren't even born here jumping on the ‘let’s abuse the 14th Amendment’ bandwagon. When will this madness end?
It will never end unless millions of Americans step up to the public mike and let our voices be heard. I have a feeling that many of our allies who have formed anti-illegal alien groups are in the beginning throes of circling the wagons for an all out shoot out of the next elected official proposing amnesty.
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Old 09-10-2008, 08:35 PM
 
Location: The D-M-V area
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None of this will stop until the Supreme Court re-examines the intention of the 14th Amendment.
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