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<blockquote data-quote="rickyb" data-source="post: 3707186" data-attributes="member: 56035"><a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/the_americas/us-is-denying-passports-to-americans-along-the-border-throwing-their-citizenship-into-question/2018/08/29/1d630e84-a0da-11e8-a3dd-2a1991f075d5_story.html?noredirect=on&amp;utm_term=.8265298d7c79" target="_blank">U.S. is denying passports to Americans along the border, throwing their citizenship into question</a>these guys suck.&nbsp; and why is he making so little as a prison guard???:When Juan, the former soldier, received a letter from the State Department telling him it wasn’t convinced that he was a U.S. citizen, it requested a range of obscure documents — evidence of his mother’s prenatal care, his baptismal certificate, rental agreements from when he was a baby.He managed to find some of those documents but weeks later received another denial. In a letter, the government said the information “did not establish your birth in the United States.”“I thought to myself, you know, I’m going to have to seek legal help,” said Juan, who earns $13 an hour as a prison guard and expects to pay several thousand dollars in legal fees....Attorneys say these cases, where the government’s doubts about an official birth certificate lead to immigration detention, are increasingly common. “I’ve had probably 20 people who have been sent to the detention center — U.S. citizens,&quot;</blockquote>

[QUOTE="rickyb, post: 3707186, member: 56035"] [URL='https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/the_americas/us-is-denying-passports-to-americans-along-the-border-throwing-their-citizenship-into-question/2018/08/29/1d630e84-a0da-11e8-a3dd-2a1991f075d5_story.html?noredirect=on&utm_term=.8265298d7c79']U.S. is denying passports to Americans along the border, throwing their citizenship into question[/URL] these guys suck. and why is he making so little as a prison guard???: When Juan, the former soldier, received a letter from the State Department telling him it wasn’t convinced that he was a U.S. citizen, it requested a range of[B] obscure documents — evidence of his mother’s prenatal care, his baptismal certificate, rental agreements from when he was a baby.[/B] He managed to find some of those documents but weeks later received another denial. In a letter, the government said the information “did not establish your birth in the United States.” “I thought to myself, you know, I’m going to have to seek legal help,” said Juan, who earns $13 an hour as a prison guard and expects to pay several thousand dollars in legal fees. ...Attorneys say these cases, where the government’s doubts about an official birth certificate lead to immigration detention, are increasingly common. “I’ve had probably 20 people who have been sent to the detention center — [B]U.S. citizens,"[/B] [/QUOTE]

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