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How passports evolved to help governments regulate your movement

  • Written by John Torpey, Presidential Professor of Sociology and History, City University of New York
A security officer checks a traveler's passport.AP Photo/Patrick Semansky

The Trump administration is denying passports to U.S. citizens who live in Texas near the U.S.-Mexico border, according to news reports.

The administration is accusing applicants of having inadequate documentation of their birth on U.S. soil, and refusing to issue them...

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