Federal agents conduct sweeping immigration enforcement raids in at least 6 states

I keep mine at the San Diego County Clerk’s office, where it belongs.

This is not really the point.

Most people support deporting people who commit violent crimes or other serious crime.

Most people do not support deporting people who were brought here as kids; womenseeking help because of domestic abuse; and motherstrying to provide for their families. They also don’t like the idea of ICE lyingto achieve these things.

The only time in my life I’ve needed a birth certificate (actually, a fe de vida, a document stating that my birth had been reported and my death hadn’t), I got it from the Civil Records Office and took it to the Court within the week. They kept it.

Yes, as a matter of fact, a lot of us were.

I figured he was doing it in the hopes that, if he proved he was an even bigger hard-ass on illegal immigration than the Bushies were, the Republicans would be more amenable to a deal on immigration reform. But I still didn’t like it one bit, and neither did plenty of other people I knew.

And fat lot of good it did: the Republicans STILL (quite dishonestly!) portrayed him as weak on immigration, and they chickened out on immigration reform.

I needed mine for my passport, and it took a month to get it from the US State Department. I needed my children’s birth certificates for their passports, and before that for them to register for LIttle League.