The State of Texas has given up the fight—for now—on trying to prevent undocumented immigrants from obtaining birth certificates for their children born legally in the States.
As The Texas Observer reports,Texas will now make it easier for immigrants to obtain the official record of their child’s birth. The move comes after some immigrant families took the state to Federal court over access to their kids’ records. The state will now accept Mexican voter identification cards and various other forms of ID whenever undocumented parents try obtain a birth certificate.
In the past, the state has fought to keep from releasing these documents, even though the immigrants were entitled to them. As a result, immigrants feared having their families torn apart or their American-born children deported.