He had worked for U.S. Customs for 18 years when investigators confronted him with a document he had never seen before: His Mexican birth certificate. The Navy veteran was not charged with a crime, but he lost his job, health insurance and citizenship.
Raul Rodriguez had worked for U.S. customs for 18 years when internal investigators confronted him last year with a document he had never seen before: his Mexican birth certificate.
“The U.S.-Mexico border region happens to be an area of the country where there has been a significant incidence of citizenship fraud,” the State Department said Monday in a statement. “This fraud has included instances where midwives and other birth attendants, in addition to legitimately registering births in the United States, have accepted money and filed U.S. birth certificates for babies actually born in Mexico.
When investigators asked about the Mexican birth certificate, the older man initially refused to answer. He could tell his son was upset and hung his head.That’s when his father confirmed that Raul Rodriguez was born in Matamoros and sent to live with family in the Rio Grande Valley when he was 5. faulting him for having falsely claimed to be a U.S. citizen and having voted illegally. The agency also denied his residency application Oct. 29.
Rodriguez had joined the agency to help stop the harassment he endured as a brown-skinned boy. When he crossed the border to visit his parents while he was growing up, he said, officers would inevitably take him aside for secondary screening, insist he was Mexican and threaten to send him back.“My goal was to make a change, treat people with respect but do your job,” he said.
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