It was literally just a few days ago news broke that the denial of passports to U.S.-born citizens had begun. That was supposedly due to birth certificate “fraud” involving midwives who operate in Texas near the Mexican border.
But here’s the thing about fascism: It isn’t ever satisfied. I assumed they’d start coming for people born in hospitals, or people born further north, at some point.
I just didn’t assume it would spread this quickly:
Born and raised in Kansas, Gwyneth Barbara didn’t expect this kind of hassle.
Barbara had been issued a U.S. passport before, but this time around, Barbara was told her birth certificate wasn’t good enough to prove her citizenship.
“It’s like they’re retroactively declaring that I was never a citizen,” Barbara said.
If official state-issued birth certificates are no longer valid to prove you were born here, how are people supposed to prove their citizenship?