TEXAS WON'T GIVE BIRTH CERTIFICATES TO CHILDREN OF UNDOCUMENTED WOMEN

Houston Press ^ | THURSDAY, JULY 16, 2015 | MICHAEL BARAJAS

[LoneStar42]

Pretty hard to ANCHOR in sand./s

[HANG THE EXPENSE]

Small price to pay for true freedom in my book.

[familyop]

What we have here, foreign minds, is a failure to assimilate.

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United States Constitution
Amendment XIV (proposed 1866, proclaimed 1868)
Section 1.
[Excerpt:]

All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the state wherein they reside. No state shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any state deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.

And much earlier,...

United States Constitution
Article II
Section 1
[Excerpt:]

No person except a natural born citizen, or a citizen of the United States, at the time of the adoption of this Constitution, shall be eligible to the office of President; neither shall any person be eligible to that office who shall not have attained to the age of thirty five years, and been fourteen Years a resident within the United States.

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As long as your equally foreign-minded bosses hire them, they'll keep coming.

You're falling into an old trap, where the most equal animals have arranged worldwide citizenship with free and easy globetrotting for themselves while restricting your mobility. You're nothing more than slaves owned by those globetrotters (many of them foreign) and don't know it, yet--like political putty in the palms of their tyrannical hands.

You will be laid off or otherwise shut down during the remainder of the default process--nearly all of you. Think about it. No more passports, 24/7 surveillance, disarmed and unemployed...owned.

Oh, and by the way, I won't be voting for any presidential candidate who wasn't born on the soil of my country. And remember that. I was born here, and I served this country. I'm descended from at least nearly 400 years of other real Americans.

You want to do something about the foreign hordes being scooped in for jobs, follow the law of my land. Do something about your out-of-control, foreign-minded (not long descended from Europe), anti-American bosses.

[V K Lee]

No, this does not make them second class citizens. First....these were NEVER, EVER, citizens. and second class, ValJar’s puppet made them second class not Texas.

Thank you Texas lawmakers. Nice to see some using ‘common’ sense these days. There seems to be little of it to go around.

[Boomer]

I hear Austin is really liberal as well as Huston. I’d stay away from those areas.

Considering what happened in Waco in May; I would definitely stay away from there too.

[trebb]

Who knew that it was illegal to inconvenience illegals????

[onyx]

Who knew that it was illegal to inconvenience illegals????

LOL.

GO TEXAS!

[grobdriver]

Yes, they will.
Right after Obie from Nairobi makes an executive order.

Don't count in it.

[Guenevere]

Thank- you Greg Abbot!!!
Don’t mess with Texas when there’s a real Govenor in town!

Following Donald Trump’s example........people will find their courage to do the right thing when they have strong leaders

[Guenevere]

Not all of it......there’s the beautiful Hill Country of Texas

[patriot08]

“If TX secedes I may have to move there but it is awful hot and flat.”

Please see my ‘profile’ page to learn about the amazing ecological diversity of Texas.

[eyeamok]

If it’s truly a matter of authenticating foreign documents, has the state tried to work with foreign consulates to determine the validity of matriculas or foreign passports?????

Who in the Hell cares, It is NOT THE STATE’S JOB, that is your JOB as an INDIVIDUAL to have your documentation validated by the FEDERAL GOVERNMENT, Obama said it is the FEDS that control immigration, go see them!.

[usconservative]

They are talking about the babies.

So am I.

[mlo]

OK. Well the babies are citizens.

[WildHighlander57]

Did the midwife file with the county a record of the birth?

Then there would be something on file and your brothers girlfriend could get a certified copy .

Is that the point where they told her she needed an affidavit, was it when she tried to get a certified copy of the birth cert?

Or was it at the passport office?

Reason I ask is because my mother in law was born at home and the birth cert was filed six months later.

When she got old, she let her licence expire due to illness and “I don’t drive anymore” and her activities were such that she didn’t need ID.

Driver license had Americanized version of her old country first name and her married last name. She did what a lot of people did back then, just used an Americanized version of her old country first name without doing a legal name change.

All her older siblings and parents were deceased and her last name had changed the one time due to marriage.

But no record of marriage with the county, because she got married in church; that doc had her old country first name and her maiden last name. Plus the first and last name of her husband.

She did have a baptism cert but it had old country first name and maiden last name.

So no paper trail of formal docs to show first and last name changes; baptism and church marriage docs aren’t accepted anymore .

I did some checking at the genealogy library and found a birth record extract showing her maiden last name and a variant of her old country first name and it was the year in which the baptism cert was issued and so it was probably the right one.

But she was born in new York, and the requirements to get the certified copy was such that in order to —get— the doc proving your birth here, you first had to prove you were born here.

And the person had to do it themselves, a famiy member couldn’t do it for them, due to the tightened rules after 9-11.

Classic catch 22 that would have required the aid of a lawyer to sort out.

That’s what that 19 year old Texas girl Alecia Faith Pennington did ....

her grandparents on both sides, her parents, her, and her eight siblings were all born in Texas.

All her siblings and her were born at home and the parents never got birth certs or soc sec numbers for them and they all were homeschooled.

So, as far as the “system” is concerned, the children don’t exist, and can’t prove their citizenship.

So when the young lady wanted to leave home and go to school, she tried to file for a birth cert and was denied.

She went to live with her grandparents, and with their help, got a lawyer and also went to her elected representative to alert them to the situation.

[WildHighlander57]

Additional info on Alecia Pennington and her siblings- the midwife never filed the birth record with the county.

There was one exception, her next younger sibling.

Alecia has three older siblings and five younger siblings and her parents weren’t being cooperative in regards to affidavits, but since the situation has gone out on social media and a lawyer is involved, they may change their position.

The older siblings either work in the parents company or do freelance work like photography or music, where there isn’t stringent ID requirements and one can work “off the books”.

But a huge obstacle is not being able to get a driver license and thus be able to even get to the work site if they didn’t want to work in the parents company.

And even if they freelance, how would they get there without a vehicle and a license?

So, in closing, if anyone who is here -legally- and not an anchor baby has a problem proving their citizenship, they should do what they can and try everything to get the docs, and if they hit a roadblock, get a lawyer who can guide them through the bureaucracy.