2024 Author: Steven Freeman | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 08:15
Lawyers in South Texas have just set off alarms to draw attention to a troubling trend: The government is denying the renewal of their passport to Latinos in the south of the state.
The practice is not new. However, a report published this Thursday by The Washington Post collects testimonies from lawyers who affirm that the type of incidents in which American citizens born in United States who are denied the renewal of said document is on the rise in that area, especially on the border strip.
Apparently, the government increased the requirements for Latinos requesting the renewal of the blue passport since 2009. However, since the beginning of the administration of President Donald Trump, government officials began to demand more and more birth tests in the United States., as alleged by various sources.
The aforementioned newspaper cites the example of Juan, a 40-year-old former marine who worked for the border patrol and who is now a guard in a state prison. The man claims that the process was denied at a Brownsville office after he was asked for "evidence of his mother's prenatal care, a baptismal certificate [and / or] proof of rental housing when he was a baby."
The man assures that he presented the documents but that his passport was still denied, telling him by means of a letter that the government did not believe that he was a citizen of the United States. "What we are seeing is that this type of case is taking off" said Jennifer Correro, a Houston attorney who has defended dozens of people in similar situations. "I think I have probably represented 20 people who were sent to detention centers [who are] United States citizens," added Jaime Diez, another attorney who practices in Brownsville.
The government alleges that for 40 years, that is, between 1950 and 1990, thousands of people claimed nationality by fraudulent means on the border strip. State Department representatives sent a statement to the Washington Post saying that "the policy or practices relating to the award of passport applications has not changed. " However, it was added that "the United States-Mexico border turns out to be an area where there is a substantial incidence of citizenship fraud." Agency representatives also sentenced: "[To] individuals who are unable to demonstrate that they were born in The United States will be denied their passport."
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