Posted on 10/20/2015 7:51:19 PM PDT by BlackFemaleArmyColonel
Officials in Texas didn't wait for Donald Trump to win the presidential election before implementing a policy beloved by anti-immigrant conservatives. Trump made a huge splash by saying he didn't believe birthright citizenship — the constitutionally enshrined idea that a baby born within the United States is an American — earlier this summer. And now it's happening: Some children born in the U.S. haven't been issued birth certificates because their parents can't provide the documents that the state of Texas requires — and a federal judge said this is okay.
In a ruling Friday, U.S. District Judge Robert Pitman said that Texas should be allowed to have strict standards for what types of documents immigrant parents must submit to get birth certificates for their children. But those standards changed recently, and a common form of identification is no longer considered acceptable. Judge Pitman said in his ruling, “While the Court is very troubled at the prospect of Texas-born children, and their parents, being denied issuance of a birth certificate…a birth certificate is a vital and important document." So vital and important that the family of a child obviously born in the U.S. have to go to court for the right to be recognized as a citizen.
This isn't just a bureaucratic problem; it's a major constitutional issue. The Constitution's 14th Amendment guarantees citizenship to all children born in the United States. "It's a basic denial of human rights," Thanu Yakupitiyage of the New York Immigration Coalition told Refinery29. "To deny American children their birth certificate is discrimination." And though Yakupitiyage says that the Texas decision could lead other states to try similar tactics, fighting over documents only saps energy and focus away from crafting significant immigration reforms that will allow families to stay together.
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No it doesn't.
True.
I have seen many of your posts. You have a theme that is correct.
Protect the border.
Right. They also have to be “subject to the jurisdiction”, therefore NOT a citizen of another country.
Now if we can figure out how to keep them from coming in illegally!
Getting results and effecting change even before getting sworn in! LOL
Immigration is not the issue. Border violations and alien residency are the issues.
People make the error of not rejecting the framed premise to begin with.
Well, good!
Yes. I want our borders protected.
:)
Now we need to dump sanctuary cities.
True.
But if the illegals know Texas won’t automatically give them a “birth certificate” based on some flawed identification, they may think twice about coming over the border and having babies just to seek government assistance.
Yep.
Well this is great! GO TEXAS!!!
The Trump Effect!
“Now we need to dump sanctuary cities.”
Then mebbe Texans might demand that their land commissioner, Jorge P. Bush, start showing up for work and earning his pay, instead of working on his amnesty-loving Dad’s failing prez campaign.
Me too.
“...anti-immigrant conservatives?”
You’re a liar, Meredith Clark, whoever the hell you are.
These are illegal alien invaders, who do NOT belong in Texas or any other American state.
“Now if we can figure out how to keep them from coming in illegally!”
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We should deploy the active duty military on our border.
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