On 7/15/15 6:46 PM, Califbill wrote:
Justan Olphat wrote:
On 7/15/2015 5:32 PM, Keyser Söze wrote:
A number of undocumented immigrants and their children have filed a
federal lawsuit against the state of Texas for what they say is a policy
designed to deny their U.S.-born children birth certificates.

"Defendants have acted with the intent to discriminate against the
Texas-born children on the basis of their parents' immigrations status,
depriving the children of their rights, benefits and privileges granted
to all other citizen children," the complaint says. "Defendants have
also acted with the intent of discriminating against undocumented
parents on the basis of their immigration status, penalizing them and
making their personal/family lives near untenable."

Lawyers from Texas RioGrande Legal Aid, the Texas Civil Rights Project,
and the South Texas Civil Rights Project are representing the
challengers in the lawsuit, which is being brought against Kirk Cole,
the Texas Department of State Health Service's Vital Statistics Unit
commissioner, and Geraldine Harris, the unit chief. The suit started
with four mothers, according to the Texas Observer, but has now expanded
to well over a dozen parents who say they were denied birth certificates
for their U.S. born children.

http://tinyurl.com/oavs9tu

Apparently the dum****s in Texas are unaware of the 14th Amendment. Is
there a Herring running things down there? Crikey, an entire state full
of right-wing rednecks.

That frivolous suit will be round filed, if it hasn't already.
Let them file the suit in Mexico where they have legal standing.



May be a nasty ending. State can argue that the 14th does not apply to
illegal immigrants. 14th says people subject to the laws of the USA. They
are here illegally, and seem to not be subject to the law. 14th. Made
those here as slaves citizens, as they were here subject to law.


The "state" can argue anything it wants, but the 14th Amendment states
that children born in the United States become American citizens
regardless of the citizenship of their parents. I'm sure the Republicans
will again attempt to overturn that Amendment and fail again, and when
they do, they will forever lose the Latino vote, which they are trying
desperately to gain. And even the conservative U.S. Supreme Court ain't
gonna overturn the 14th.

As usual, your comments and those of your right-wing cowardly buddy in
Florida are...moronic.