Replying to a message of DAVE DRUM to BOB ACKLEY:

 DD> -=> Bob Ackley wrote to Ross Sauer <=-

 RS>> More fun for reactionary politicians like the Arizona
 RS>> racist pig of a congresscritter to create do-nothing "show
 RS>> us your papers" law.

 BA>> Tell us, Ross, do YOU carry proof of your legal residence
 BA>> in this country with you all the time?  Note that a
 BA>> driver's license is *NOT* such proof; a birth certificate
 BA>> is - if you can PROVE it is YOUR birth certificate, the
 BA>> fact that you happen to be carrying it does not mean it is
 BA>> yours.

 DD> When I went to my birth county to get a copy of my birth
 DD> certificate - to prove to the Social Security
 DD> Administration that I was (A) who I said I was, and (B) of
 DD> the age that I claimed - I got, instead, a form stating
 DD> that my birth records (giving my name, date of birth, place
 DD> of birth on the form) were on file with the County Clerk of
 DD> that county.

Decades ago I got a (thermofax) copy of my birth certificate from the
CA Bureau of Vital Statistics (or maybe it was Department of...).  Still
have it.

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