Apparently Texas officials were able to choose who their parents were before being born. At least that's what they seem to infer. They feel they have the power to take away citizenship to those who are born in the U.S. to parents who are illegally here. The parents don't have a Texas I.D and the Texas government won’t accept a matricula or a Mexican identification, which is actually more reliable than the Texas I.D because of its features. Texas should not deny babies their citizenship because their parents don't have a Texas issue I.D.
The fourteenth amendment says "All persons born or naturalized in the United States... are citizens of the United States and of the state wherein they reside. No state shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States." Parents argue that they can't enroll their children to school because they don't have the child's birth certificate. But what they can do in order to in role their children to school is write a letter were they state why they don't have the child's birth certificate, which would make them willingly say that they are illegally here. But what's really ironic about this is that Texas will not accept a friendly neighbor country's I.D but will accept simple letters from people who practically can't prove they are human. So not only are they taking the first constitutional right they get when they are born in American soil, which is being a U.S. citizen, but they are also denying them free education as well as many other beneficial things that could help them.
Texas Republican Senator Rafael Edward Cruz (or as he likes to be called Ted Cruz) agrees with Texas denying citizenship, even though he was born in Canada and is running for president. He claims that his mother (Caucasian) was born in the U.S.; therefore he is a naturalized born American however his father is Cuban born and immigrated to the United States. Cruz is establishing a double standard because he claims citizenship but meanwhile he will deny the same right to Americans born in Texas who's parents are immigrants, even if they were born on American soil.