Texas Standard For August 30, 2018
The State Department is denying U.S. passports to American citizens born near the border. The accusation: fraudulent birth certificates. We’ll talk to the Washington Post reporter who found that the citizenship of hundreds, possibly thousands of Hispanics with American birth certificates is being stripped off their passports, and their legal status in the U.S. is being thrown into question. We’ll hear the how and why. And: Harvey trapped hundreds of thousands of Texans when major freeways flooded across Houston. Now there’s an effort to fix what’s causing clogged arteries during storms. Also: Smart enough to set up a smart home? A new industry emerges to help. Those stories and more today on the Texas Standard:

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