Alecia is one of nine siblings – children of James and Lisa Pennington, group leaders of the Texas Home School Coalition and members of the Hill Country Home School Association.
“This leaves me with nothing to prove my citizenship,” she explained in the video. “I am now 19 years old and unable to get a driver’s license, get a job, go to college, get on a plane, get a bank account, vote.”In addition to the video, Alecia has also set up a Facebook page called ‘Help Me Prove It’, as well as a Twitter account, where she explains that she tried contacting the midwife who delivered her to find a birth record, but that the woman didn’t prove very cooperative. And when she asked her parents to provide her with an affidavit confirming her birth and attesting to their citizenship, they simply refused.
Homeschool Alumni Reaching Out, a non-profit organisation, has defined Alecia’s situation as ‘identification abuse’ – it includes destroying, holding hostage, or denying a child their identification documents They claim some people perceive identification documents as ungodly or as the ‘mark of the beast’.
Alecia’s case, according to odditycentral.com, is indeed bizarre especially living in a country of privileges yet she is unable to exercise her rights.
“I want to travel, I want to get an education, I want to just be a functioning American but I can’t until I can prove citizenship,” she said in her YouTube video.
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