Mexico Warns Texas Not to Deny Birth Certificates


Mexico is waving it’s angry fist at Texas because certain counties are not issuing birth certificates to children born here to undocumented parents.  Those counties who were accepting the ID cards issued at the Mexican Consulate known as “matricula”, were ordered, by the Texas State Health Services Department, to stop.

“Our argument isn’t ‘yes matrícula, no matrícula,'” attorney Jennifer Harbury, who represents the families, told the Texas Tribune. “The argument is ‘what will you take that people can actually get?’ They have to take something. [The children] were born here. They are U.S. citizens.”

The suit against Texas was filed on behalf of six children who are U.S. citizens and their undocumented parents, who are from Mexico, Honduras and Guatemala, the Texas Tribune reports. The families argue Texas is violating the 14th amendment, among other things.

In a brief, filed by the Mexican government on behalf of these children,  it asserts that by denying birth certificates, this blocks the children’s claims to Mexican citizenship.

According to the Newsmax article, “A child born to Mexican parents has that right but must show proof of identity.”

Source: Newsmax.

 



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