This allegation was supported by the observations of several expert lawyers who had witnessed skyrocketing caseloads of passport denials, mostly in Southern Texas. The story lacked statistics, which the State Department initially failed to provide. But when the State Department provided HuffPost the raw number of passport denials in suspect midwife cases along the border, those numbers contradicted the Post’s report. It’s possible that cases like these could be driving an increase in passport denials that the State Department’s figures don’t track. In the early years of Treviño’s practice, his office used a typewriter to draw up birth certificates with several carbon copies.

Source: Huffington Post September 17, 2018 15:33 UTC