Midwife Delivery Can Lead to Passport Denial
"The State Department is denying passports to people born in southern Texas near the border with Mexico if they were delivered by midwives, citing a history of birth certificate forgeries there for Mexican-born children dating to the 1960s, according to U.S. officials.
In a lawsuit, the American Civil Liberties Union alleges that the government is systematically discriminating against U.S.-born citizens on the basis of ethnicity and national origin."
SPENCER S. HSU in the Washington Post.
[Here are links to podcasts and documents related to the lawsuit.]