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South Africa's one million invisible children without birth certificates

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116 points mooreds | 2 comments | 14 Oct 25 01:13 UTC | HN request time: 0.467s | source
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bombcar ◴[21 Oct 25 13:52 UTC] No.45655813[source]▶
For reference, the US has procedures for this: https://www.usa.gov/citizenship-no-birth-certificate because people without birth certificates are still somewhat common, even children.

Vermont didn't require it until 1955!

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1. afavour ◴[21 Oct 25 14:03 UTC] No.45655962[source]▶
> South Africans coming forward are being treated with suspicion that they are an illegal immigrant

I can't help but wonder if similar concerns will appear in the US, if they haven't already.

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2. wat10000 ◴[21 Oct 25 14:56 UTC] No.45656618[source]▶
It's already worse than that. There are multiple stories of US citizens being detained just because they look Hispanic, which the authorities have decided means they look like illegal immigrants, and then accused of presenting fake IDs when they try to prove otherwise.