Fact Check: Trump Administration Challenges Washington Post Hispanic Passport Story

The Trump administration is pushing back against the accuracy of a Washington Post story that suggests Hispanics applying for passports are facing discrimination from the federal government.

Writing that “a growing number of people whose official birth records show they were born in the United States … are now being denied passports—their citizenship suddenly thrown into question,” The Washington Post reported in the Aug. 29 article that:

The Trump administration is accusing hundreds, and possibly thousands, of Hispanics along the border of using fraudulent birth certificates since they were babies, and it is undertaking a widespread crackdown.

“The facts don’t back up The Washington Post’s reporting,” State Department spokeswoman Heather Nauert said in a statement.

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