Judge Will Hear Birth Certificate Case Next Month
A coalition of undocumented immigrants whose U.S. citizen children have been denied birth certificates in Texas will get its day in federal court next month.
Attorneys for the families will appear before U.S. District Judge Robert Pitman on Oct. 2, according to an order filed Wednesday. The judge will consider whether to grant an emergency injunction and order the Department of State Health Services to identify two forms of identification the parents can use to obtain the vital record.
The families allege that the state health department violated the children’s constitutional rights by ordering local county registrars to stop recognizing Mexican consular IDs and foreign passports without valid visas as proof of identification. Their pleading specifically asks the state health department to list documents that are "reasonably and actually accessible to undocumented immigrant parents now present in Texas."
The lawsuit was filed in May on behalf of six U.S. citizen children and their parents from Mexico, Honduras and Guatemala. The complaint has been amended since to include more than 30 families.
Read more: https://www.texastribune.org/2015/09/03/judge-will-hear-birth-certificate-case-next-month/
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