I contemplated this idea today that some people in the US....perhaps even over the age of sixty....have NO birth certificate (ZERO).
According to a 2024 national survey conducted by the Brennan Center for Justice, VoteRiders, Public Wise, and the University of Maryland's Center for Democracy and Civic Engagement....somewhere around 3.8 million voting-age US citizens have no form of documentary proof of citizenship at all. This means they lack a U.S. birth certificate, passport, naturalization certificate, or certificate of citizenship.
Truth to the matter? No one has ever jumped into this issue. You can't say x-number from this state or that state....have no birth certificate. You can't say 300,000 Indians exist with no birth certificate. You can't say 44,000 folks granted citizenship in the 1990s....arrived with no birth certificate, and were given paperwork for citizenship, but lacking the certificate.
Do we even want to open up this discussion?
The solution? Well.....you'd have to appoint some gov't folks to make up birth certificates....with minimum data or facts. I don't see this going well.
