U.S. is denying passports to Americans along the border, throwing their citizenship into question

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Here's the original article.

"Due process," mumble, mumble.

David Fahrenthold Retweeted:

Important story by @ksieff --> Trump administration is accusing hundreds, and possibly thousands, of Hispanic U.S. citizens along the border of using fraudulent birth certificates and denying them passports

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The Americas

U.S. is denying passports to Americans along the border, throwing their citizenship into question

By Kevin Sieff
August 29 at 4:25 PM

PHARR, Tex. — On paper, he’s a devoted U.S. citizen. ... His official American birth certificate shows he was delivered by a midwife in Brownsville, at the southern tip of Texas. He spent his life wearing American uniforms: three years as a private in the Army, then as a cadet in the Border Patrol and now as a state prison guard.

But when Juan, 40, applied to renew his U.S. passport this year, the government’s response floored him. In a letter, the State Department said it didn’t believe he was an American citizen.

As he would later learn, Juan is one of a growing number of people whose official birth records show they were born in the United States but who are now being denied passports — their citizenship suddenly thrown into question. The Trump administration is accusing hundreds, and possibly thousands, of Hispanics along the border of using fraudulent birth certificates since they were babies, and it is undertaking a widespread crackdown.

In a statement, the State Department said that it “has not changed policy or practice regarding the adjudication of passport applications,” adding that “the U.S.-Mexico border region happens to be an area of the country where there has been a significant incidence of citizenship fraud.” ... But cases identified by The Washington Post and interviews with immigration attorneys suggest a dramatic shift in both passport issuance and immigration enforcement.
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Kevin Sieff has been The Washington Post’s Latin America correspondent since 2018. He served previously as the paper's Africa bureau chief and Afghanistan bureau chief. Follow https://twitter.com/ksieff

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1. Trump's policy: "If you're brown, you're goin' down."

Make clear to everyone that hasn't got it already -- POC will be treated as inferiors.

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2. My gods Trump needs to be removed ASAP.

This is seriously scary shit.

[SHRED]

3. So if your name is say, "Mark Smith"

I'm guessing no problem.

[2naSalit]

4. Incremental creep into ethinc cleansing...

this is what it looks like, folks.