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In November 2016, a number of social media links (marked breaking) claimed the state of Texas would no longer permit birth certificates to be issued to the children of undocumented immigrants: The claim was (either implicitly or explicitly) associated with the election of Donald Trump on 8 November 2016, although the issue originated long before, and had no connnection to, that event. For example, one popular version published in August 2016 asserted that: Almost universally, social media users believed or maintained a breaking post-election development had halted the issuance of birth certificates to the children of undocumented parents in Texas after 8 November 2016. But the issue came to a head in July 2015, as NPR reported back then: In October 2015, NPR followed up with the news that a judge had upheld the practice: By July 2016, significant changes to the situation in Texas had rendered the original claims largely moot. The New York Times reported that a settlement had been reached enabling undocumented parents to obtain birth certificates for their babies born in that state: Although it was true that undocumented immigrants in Texas experienced difficulty obtaining birth certificates for their American-born infants between 2013 and 2016, a July 2016 ruling ended the practice which originally disrupted the parents from registering their children's births.
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