Denial of birth certificates being challenged in court

[TexasTowelie]

WESLACO, – It’s not up to Texas to discriminate against immigrants and their children.

That’s the message from attorneys for Texas Rio Grande Legal Aid, Inc. and the Texas Civil Rights Project who have filed a civil rights case on behalf of six U.S. citizen children and their immigrant parents that alleges unconstitutional discrimination, as well as unconstitutional interference with the federal government’s authority over immigration affairs.

A lawsuit names the Texas Department of State Health Services, Vital Statistics Unit, together with its Commissioner, Kirk Cole, and Unit Chief, Geraldine Harris, as defendants, according to a complaint that was filed in the United States District Court, Western District, and Austin Division on May 26, 2015.

In the lawsuit, the plaintiff children were born in Texas to immigrant parents. Their parents requested birth certificates at local vital statistics offices, and presented their citizen child’s hospital birth records and social security cards.

Read more: http://riograndeguardian.com/denial-of-birth-certificates-being-challenged-in-court/

Related thread:
Groups claim parents of US-born children denied birth certificates (mothers in country illegally)

[Gothmog]

1. Texas has an issue with the law and the 14th Amendment

[DhhD]

2. Oops. GWBush wanted to separate these infants and send the parent(s) back to their country

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of origin. I believe that the parent(s) were free to choose to keep their child. There was an article about it in the Lubbock AJ about 1991. That article is on microfilm if the microfilm is still around or someone has a newspaper or newspaper clipping.

Just prior to the early 1990s, there were a streams of OTM nationals coming from the wars in Central America. Since the Reagan Administration, little has changed in Central America.

In a related story, foreigners, Other Than Mexican-OTMs are seeking work permits for their infants and children under two years old, who were brought across the Mexican border. We have foster care in Texas so I believe that parents of other nationalities should proceed carefully with petitioning a court in Texas. Texas has rights to regulate the welfare needs of infants and children through Foster Care.