Trump Administration's 'Birther' Assault On Mexican-Americans
Cody Fenwick
August 30, 2018 4:10 am
President Donald Trump’s harmful and clearly racist obsession with enforcing draconian immigration restrictions has taken another pernicious turn and appears to be targeting hundreds of Hispanic Americans who live near the U.S.-Mexico border, according to a new report from the Washington Post.
The new report found that hundreds, if not thousands, of people living on the border have been denied passports by the State Department over skepticism about their birth certificates. It’s true, the report says, that some midwives in the area have created falsified birth records in the past, but many of these same people created legitimate birth records as well.
When it can’t confirm that the document is legitimate, it seems, the department errs on the side of denying the passport. In one case the Post documented, a man provided additional evidence of his birthplace after being initially denied, only to be denied once again. He had to hire a lawyer to continue to appeal the decision — a move that can very costly for people with low incomes.
The practice also raises disturbing parallels with the issue that brought Trump into the modern political scene: Falsely attacking the legitimacy of President Barack Obama’s birth certificate.
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