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October 19, 2015

Texas: Judge Lets Officials Keep Denying Birth Certificates to U.S.-Born Children of Immigrants 
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In Texas, a federal judge has allowed state officials to continue
denying birth certificates to immigrants whose children are born in the
United States. The Constitution grants citizenship rights to all
U.S.-born children, but U.S. District Judge Robert Pitman denied an
emergency injunction requested by families whose children have been
denied birth certificates, saying more evidence is needed.

 

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