Posted on 07/22/2008 5:26:26 AM PDT by 3AngelaD
When Lupita Sanchez applied for a passport, she didn't expect her U.S. citizenship would be called into question. But three months after completing her application - 38 years after she was born in Brownsville - Sanchez received a shocking letter from the U.S. State Department...explaining that her application had been closed, "Once you obtain U.S. citizenship, you may execute another application for a U.S. passport."
Sanchez...has been voting and paying taxes in the U.S. for 20 years. But along with hundreds of other South Texans delivered by midwives, the validity of Sanchez's birth certificate, and her citizenship, is being called into question.
"I'm being discriminated against because my parents were unable to pay for a doctor," Sanchez said.
The government suspects that as many as 15,000 midwife-granted birth certificates were issued fraudulently in South Texas. Between 1960 to 2008, more than 75 South Texas midwives were convicted of signing birth certificates for children they did not deliver....
...many, like Lupita Sanchez, were the first members of their families born in the United States. Sanchez's father, a migrant laborer, put away money for months to pay for a midwife in downtown Brownsville. When her mother was nearly nine months pregnant, she crossed the border illegally from Matamoros to Brownsville with $200...Sanchez was delivered to a midwife less than a half-mile from the Rio Grande. She became a citizen upon birth because of a provision in the 14th Amendment...that grants American-born babies citizenship, even if their parents are undocumented.
"Right now you see people coming (to the U.S.), to have their babies and rely on the government to pay for their Medicaid," she said. "I'm proud to say that my parents didn't ask for any help. They crossed the border and paid for a midwife with their own money."...
(Excerpt) Read more at brownsvilleherald.com ...
Cry me a river
I;m not saying she wasn’t there, but I don’t think she was in any capacity to be able to remember! Her parents might well have told her, but all she is doing is repeating hearsay.
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
Obama? Birth certificate? Why would the media ask about that? Let's move on.
I hate to be so jaded since my son was delivered by a midwife with no one else in attendance except my husband, but maybe the $200.00 her father paid the midwife was really for the birth certificate and not the delivery.
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
The mother crossed the border illegally for the sole purpose of having her baby. The child should NOT be a US citizen - period.
They admitted this freely in the article and we are supposed to feel SORRY for this woman?
Why didn’t mom have her in Mexico?
She has nobdy to blame but her mother.
She became a citizen upon birth because of a provision in the 14th Amendment...that grants American-born babies citizenship, even if their parents are undocumented.
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DUH...
Nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo
The 14th Amendment was not written for illegall aliens or the childfen of illegal aliens...
Where’s the obligitory BARF ALERT ???????????
The Rio Bravo!!!
Smart people.
Sounds like her parents' plan to screw the American system and American taxpayers fell through.
From The Article:
"Between 1960 to 2008, more than 75 South Texas midwives were convicted of signing birth certificates for children they did not deliver."
"When her mother was nearly nine months pregnant, she crossed the border illegally from Matamoros to Brownsville with $200 and enough clothes to last her several weeks."
That would put her birth in 1970. We had an amnesty in 1986. I wonder how she obtained a SS number, if she indeed has one. Sounds like another scam. It should be easy to verify her story using school and other records.
At the end of the article it states that she goes into Mexico several times a week because she has no health care and her brothers and sisters are there. They ask her what will happen if she does not receive her passport. She says the she’s basically stuck, stuck in a free country.
That is in no way true. No one will force her to stay in the U.S. She can leave anytime she wants. It’s getting back in again that might prove a problem. Since she and her family seem quite adept at crossing borders illegally I don’t see why this will be a problem. I also don’t she how she’s crossing the border 2 times a week now without a passport. That Draconian crackdown doesn’t seem to be so effective.
Correction in the 2nd paragraph:
I also don’t she = see
"Sanchez's parents had no plans to raise their daughter in the United States. After she was born, they carried her back to Matamoros, where she grew up with three brothers.
If she wanted to move to the States when she was adult, they told her, her citizenship granted her that option. But when Sanchez was 12 and ready to enter junior high school, the Matamoros public school system asked for her Mexican birth certificate. Without proof of her citizenship, administrators told her, she wouldn't be able to attend public school.
Given no alternative, she left Matamoros, and her parents, to live with cousins and attend middle school in Brownsville. She learned English. She moved around the state of Texas. But after a few years, she couldn't stand being away from her immediate family.
When she was 15, Sanchez dropped out of school and moved back to Mexico.
Sounds a little fishy to me. It is interesting to see how freely she could move back and forth across the border.
“The government suspects that as many as 15,000 midwife-granted birth certificates were issued fraudulently in South Texas. Between 1960 to 2008, more than 75 South Texas midwives were convicted of signing birth certificates for children they did not deliver....”
Just put in a call to KOS and the Obama campaign.
They’ll help ya out with the birth certificate problems.... :)
- John
This is a case of misreading the 14th amendment. The phrase “subject to the jurisdiction thereof” is the key. Neither of her parents were so there is no proof they were here so there is no proof of her birth here either.
It's also interesting to note that she goes to Mexico every week for health care but she was unable to enter Matamoras middle school because she had no Mexican birth certificate. Does this mean I can go to Mexico and get free health care? I don't have a Mexican birth certificate, either. What a deal!
“Sanchez received a shocking letter from the U.S. State Department”
So, when does she receive a “shocking” letter from ICE?
(crickets)
Since her parents are Mexican, she is a Mexican citizen. Heretofore, you did not need a US passport to cross into Mexico. That has changed.
Sorry, Nana. I was so busy rolling my eyes that I forgot the barf alert.
Why Mexican illegals are driving America "cuckoo":
Why doesn't Mexico take care of its own people? Why do they instead encourage their poor to leave Mexico and invade the United States? Nature provides a parallel that is instructive.
Some species of birds thrive not by carefully rearing their own young, but by pawning that task off on adults of other species. The European Cuckoo, whose distinctive call is immortalized in the sound of the "cuckoo clock," is the bird in which this habit has been most thoroughly studied. Female European Cuckoos lay their eggs only in the nests of other species of birds. A cuckoo egg usually closely mimics the eggs of the host (one of whose eggs is often removed by the cuckoo).
The host may recognize the intruding egg and abandon the nest, or it may incubate and hatch the cuckoo egg. Shortly after hatching, the young European Cuckoo, using a scoop-like depression on its back, instinctively shoves over the edge of the nest any solid object that it contacts. With the disappearance of their eggs and rightful young, the foster parents are free to devote all of their care to the young cuckoo. Frequently this is an awesome task, since the cuckoo chick often grows much larger than the host adults long before it can care for itself. One of the tragicomic scenes in nature is a pair of small foster parents working like Sisyphus to keep up with the voracious appetite of an outsized young cuckoo.
Ditto! This is not only a Mexican problem. Koreans, Japanese and others go to Guam, Midway, Hawaii and other US terrorites to give birth. It’s ticket for the entire family.
But when Sanchez was 12 and ready to enter junior high school, the Matamoros public school system asked for her Mexican birth certificate. Without proof of her citizenship, administrators told her, she wouldn’t be able to attend public school.
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Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm
1. How did she go to school in Mexico before age 12 without the proper documents ???
2. If it’s Mexico where Mexicans are, why doesnt the US have the same proof of citizenship laws to go to school here ????
I love your tagline. It’s short and really accurate.
She became a citizen upon birth because of a provision in the 14th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution. The amendment grants American-born babies with citizenship, even if their parents are undocumented.~~~snip~~~
Lupita Sanchez's parents had no plans to raise their daughter in the United States. After she was born, they carried her back to Matamoros, where she grew up with three brothers.
If she wanted to move to the States when she was adult, they told her, her citizenship granted her that option.
The 14th Amendment reads in part...
Section. 1.Since she and her parents were NOT "subject to the jurisdiction" of the USA, her birth may as well have occurred on Mars as far as citizenship goes. Her birth 'here' is the same as if her parents were Brits or Germans on a three week vacation in New York. It means n-o-t-h-i-n-g.
All persons born or naturalized in the United States and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside. No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.
So the 'journalist' is wrong and her parents were wrong. She AIN'T no citizen of the USA. The idiot put right in the article yet didn't see it. Lupita is a MEXICAN National (aka: citizen) - period.
I stole from someone for the same reason’s you gave. Plus, it has the added advantage of being true.
Because she is lying.
2. Because our government and courts refuse to enforce the laws of the land and would rather imbue non-citizens with the rights of citizens and then some.
“Lemme see, Miss Sanchez: was your mother a U.S. citizen?
No?
And your father - if you know who he is - was he a U.S. citizen at the time of your birth?
No?
So we just have the “word” of another possibly illegal alien that you were born in the U.S.? Is that right?
Sorry, babe, back to May-hee-co with you!”
There - fixed.
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