Posted on November 15, 2008
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Workers World Born with a midwife’s help? Government says, 'Sorry, no passport' Published Oct 19, 2008 5:09 PM Special to Workers World The U.S. State Department is supposed to issue passports to people who can provide documents showing they were born in the United States. But it has begun rejecting birth certificates, mostly belonging to Latin@s born in the Southwest, that were signed by midwives—in other words, if the applicants were born at home. In that area, people cross the bord
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