https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/washington-post-trump-passport-crackdown_us_5b9ec246e4b046313fbc2bd1washington posts's big story about how the Trump administration is supposedly cracking down on passports of hispanic people who were born with midwives in a certain area turned out to be, unsurprisingly, fake news
as it turns out, not only had the government been denying passports to these people with fraudulent birth certificates for years during the Obama administration after a lawsuit on the subject, but the number of denied passports both as an absolute and % figure had been dropping significantly under Trump, from from a peak of 1,465 in 2015 to 971 last year. And when WaPo doubled down on their claim by citing a case under Trump of a passport denial hundreds of miles from the border, they failed to realize that the Obama administration had also denied multiple passports hundreds of miles from the border for the same reason too.
And then it turns out WaPo didn't even reach out to the people whos case they were using;
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When people with those birth certificates applied for passports, the State Department often asked them for more documentation ― prompting the applicants to call Treviño’s office. The staff would direct the applicants to request the official certificate from the Texas Department of State Health Services Vital Statistics Unit in Austin, and Treviño’s widow, DeSaussure “Dee” Treviño, attested to the authenticity of her husband’s signature.
Treviño’s family members would have explained all this to the Post. But the paper didn’t give them a chance to comment.
“We don’t know and have never heard, before this article came out, of anyone from his office doing anything illegal like this or of anyone forging his signature or using his name to do something like this,” the doctor’s daughter, Marianna Treviño Wright, told HuffPost. “For this to surface three years after he’s dead … unless the State Department or the lawyers are going to produce the affidavit, it might as well be a fairy tale.”
Treviño’s widow and daughter tried publicly and privately to talk to the Post from the day the article published.
The family only received a call Thursday, nearly two weeks later, after HuffPost emailed the paper to ask why it had ignored them. The Post updated its story that day to mention the timing of the case and add a comment from Treviño Wright and a correction noting that the paper misidentified the doctor as a gynecologist.
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