Delivered by Midwives, Fighting for Passports
Imagine being born, growing up and living your entire life in one place, yet being denied a U.S. passport because the government doesn't trust your birth certificate. That's the problem faced by countless people in rural areas along the U.S. - Mexico border, especially South Texas, a.k.a. "the Valley."
Brownsville Herald reporter KEVIN SIEFF filed a pair of stories (June 19th and June 20th, 2008) exposing the problem, and produced a slide show including photographs by BRAD DOHERTY and G. DANIEL LóPEZ.