The Trump administration is accusing hundreds and possibly thousands of Hispanic Americans along the Texas-Mexico border of obtaining their citizenship using fraudulent birth certificates and the government is denying them passports as a result, according to a Washington Post report. Individuals that the Post spoke to said they’re baffled and have been using their birth certificates since they were babies. It’s unclear why the crackdown on birth certificates from midwives appears to be happening now. In federal court cases in the 1990s, several midwives admitted to fraudulently filing Texas birth certificates for babies who were born in Mexico. The State Department didn’t respond to a question from HuffPost on why the denials were happening again.

Source: Huffington Post August 30, 2018 12:00 UTC