His official American birth certificate shows he was delivered by a midwife in Brownsville, at the southern tip of Texas. He spent his life wearing American uniforms: three years as a private in the Army, then as a cadet in the Border Patrol and now as a state prison guard.

This week the question is:

“Lawyer: I was born in Brownsville with a midwife. I already had a passport, but a year ago I filed a petition for my wife that Immigration approved three months ago. Everything was fine until two weeks ago when I went to have dinner in Matamoros, and when I came back I was detained for more than 10 hours on the bridge.

The answer is yes. The visa they can apply for is the TN, which was created as a result of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) between Canada-USA-Mexico. The TN visa is only for Mexican or Canadian citizens who have studied a profession recognized by NAFTA. Not all professions or university careers are recognized. There is an official list of professions and the requirements of each.

If you were born after March 1, 1983 and obtained your legal residence before you were 18 years of age, there is a chance that you have automatically acquired citizenship if your father or mother is a citizen of the United States.

This week the question is this:

“Lawyer: I am Mexican, as are my two children. They both study in the U.S. on student visas. My question is this: a friend of mine told me that her friend’s son had his student visa taken away because the police arrested him for drunk driving. How true is this? And if it happens, what can the person do?”

This week I received this question: “My husband was a legal resident in the US for many years. However, when he was 20 years old, he had a legal problem and was deported. When he was deported, he was told that he his ban from the US was for 10 years. That was over 15 years ago. When he was deported, his residence was not taken away. Now he lives in Mexico. However, his entire family, including his two children and I, his wife, are American citizens. Are there any pardons he can request so that he can live in the US again?”

A few days ago, I watched Trump on television during a rally he was having in Dallas. As expected, the main topic was immigration. During his speech, he said that before leaving for the rally, he had met with victims of undocumented immigrants to promise them that as president he was going to deport undocumented immigrants. He said, “I will secure the border by building a wall.” I would rather invite any other presidential candidate who better meets the millions of American citizens who love these undocumented immigrants and whose votes are definitely not for Trump.

Whether obtained through birth or naturalization, American citizenship is American citizenship. In the darkest moments of U.S. history, political leaders have exploited citizenship laws to promote nativist ideologies and to advance regressive political agendas. The legacy is a citizenship system riddled with gaps in protections, eroding the fundamental promise of equality.

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