In what the conservative media highlights as a "birth certificate scam," four midwives along the U.S.-Mexico border are arrested for supposedly falsifying birth records by listing the U.S. as the country of birth.

The birth workers respond that they were offering an affordable service by a Latinx practitioner safely and with dignity, avoiding barriers otherwise faced by birthing parents at private hospitals and publicly-funded clinics. Many of the midwives are clustered along the Rio Grande, and support births on both sides of the border, while many families in the region frequently cross the border for work, family visits, and shopping. Also known as parteras, the birth workers will face five-year prison terms and fines of $250,000.