The following article by Xeni Jardin was posted on the BoingBoing.net website August 29, 2018:
They served in the Army, Border Patrol and as police. They have legitimate U.S. birth certificates. But Trump’s government is denying their passport applications and telling them they aren’t U.S. citizens.
A Washington Post report out today tells of the “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,” under the Trump administration’s racist policies.
Hundreds, maybe thousands, of (mostly Latinx) people who live and work along the U.S.-Mexico border are accused by Trump’s government of “using fraudulent birth certificates since they were babies, and it is undertaking a widespread crackdown on their citizenship.”