Seeking a Second Passport | The New Yorker
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For some Americans, citizenship in a country their ancestors fled is now an insurance plan.
Save this story Save this story My daughter, Clio, was born in August, 2022 in San Leandro, California. Immediately afterward, I felt an urgent need to secure her a passport. As someone who’s worked with refugees and reported on forced migration for more than two decades, I understood the potentially life-saving importance of being able to cross a border with paperwork in hand. I started the application process before I had finished bleeding, trudging to the county records office with my newborn for a copy of her birth certificate. I held my bear-suit-clad two-month-old high above my head as a
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