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.

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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.