Anchor babies?

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Because of the 14th amendment. What does a bank robber have to do with a baby?

Lori K

It shouldn't be but that is the law currently. Birthright citizenship is an outdated notion and most modern countries have already done away with it. The US and Canada are the 2 major nations who are clinging to it.

To make a fine point...it's not the 14 Amendment that allows birthright citizenship, but rather the current judicial interpretation of the 14th Amendment. That could change.

AlenaT

I think that law should be changed because this is the one of the reasons mexican are coming to US....

Darth Scorn

Are laws say that if you're born on American soil, you're an American citizen. I don't agree with people who say that having a baby in America is reason to let you stay, but the child is clearly here legally.

Lady Freyja

It's stupid. We need to do away w/ citizenship through birth. Only children born of legal U.S. citizens should be afforded citizenship.

Mindbender

Actually, children born to illegal immigrants -- if challenged on a Constitutional basis, would not be allowed to be citizens because they are products of an illegal act. We have research to prove that the 14th amendment to the Constitution and the other recent acts that are supposed to promote this illegal citizenship do not give children of illegal immigrants automatic citizenship.

We U.S. Citizens and law-abiding immigrants are mad-as-hell and we're not going to take this crap anymore. There will be impeachments and lawsuits and Constitutional Challenges. 2008 will be the year of the U.S. Citizen obtaining and guarding their Constitution and their rights and taking their country back. It's already started and we're moving forward. No more benefits for law-breakers!

Joel W

I am not a birthright citizens.. my parents were citizens. Both in fact, but one was sufficent. And no..we are not all anchor babies.. most of us are born of American Citizens.

Anchor Babies: born in the USA - Enormous taxpayer costs
Article by Stephany Gabbard and Frosty Wooldridge
July 9, 2004
http://www.frostywooldridge.com/articles/art_2004jul09b.html
Published on MICHnews.com

If you donâ€™t think our Congress is taking Americans for a ride, think again. According to Dr. Madeleine Cosman, "At least 300,000 to 350,000 anchor babies annually become citizens in California." In 1994, 74,987 anchor babies in maternity units cost taxpayers $215 million in Stockton, California. In 2003, 70 percent of the 2,300 babies born in San Joaquin General maternity ward were from illegal aliens. That number has exploded today with over three million illegal aliens residing in California.

The French economist Frederic Bastiat said, "The unseen is more expensive than the seen." In Stockton, California, the Silverio Family was featured in the Wall Street Journal in 2003. They were fruit pickers who arrived illegally from Oxtotilan, Mexico in 1997. The wife, Felipa had three kids, but popped an anchor baby named Flor. The child was premature and spent three months in a neonatal incubator at a cost to the San Joaquin Hospital of over $300,000.00. They conceived another, Christian. The second baby made them eligible for $1,000 per month welfare. Because Flor is disabled, she receives $600.00 monthly for asthma. Although the illegal aliens made $18,000.00 annually picking fruit, they collected $12,000.00 of your tax dollars for their anchor babies. One night the father, Cristobal crashed his van. He had no license or insurance. Taxpayers paid for all hospital bills. Thatâ€™s why 77 hospitals in border states were going bankrupt in 2003, but Senator John McCain wrote a rider into the Medicaid Bill for $1.4 billion of your tax dollars. It passed. Not to finish the spending spree on these anchor babies, the children attend California schools at a cost of $7,000.00 per year over and above what their parents pay in taxes. The cost for all five of their children for one school year exceeds $35,000.00 times 18 years for a grand taxpayer total of $630,000.00. This is only one family. No wonder California is $38 billion in debt.

Additional costs for illegal alien children stem from translators, advocates and middlemen. MediCal in 2003 sponsored 760,000 illegal aliens. Supplemental Security Income is a non-means-treated federal grant of money and food stamps. Be assured that scams and fraud run rampant. Over 500,000 â€˜mentally disabled kidsâ€™ are on drugs for ADHD and ODD. One lady, Linda Torres was arrested in Bakersfield with $8,500.00 in small bills in her pocket. It was her SSI lump award for her disability, which was heroin addition.

Just so Americans across the country donâ€™t feel left out, letâ€™s move to Georgia. Net Fiscal Costs of Illegal Immigration for Georgia: Births of illegal aliens in Georgia cost to taxpayers:
2000-- 5,133 births cost: $13 million
2001-- 9,528 births cost: $23 million
2002â€”11,188 births cost: $27 million

Additionally, receiving public assistance in 2002 for 25,000 children of illegal aliens cost Georgia taxpayers $42 million annually. Health care costs to Georgia taxpayers for illegal aliens in 2002 was 64,000 doctor visits which ran Grady Health System into a $63 million deficit. What is it in your state? This picture is a small window into the massive fraud being perpetrated on your wallet by your congressional leaders. What is your senator or congressman doing about it? The simple answer fulfills French economist Bisbiatâ€™s rule of the unseen. Your congressional reps assist this fraud! They encourage it every day by doing nothing about 2,200 illegal aliens crossing our borders and they have done nothing since 9/11 to deport the estimated 13 million that are already here.

So what will you do? How about taking action! Join www.NumbersUSA.com and www.SecuredBordersUSA.com and www.TheAmericanResistence.com and www.DeportAliens.com and www.ImmigrationsHumancost.org and www.ReportIllegals.us and www.CommonSenseOnMassImmigration.us.

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The 14th amendment is the source of this problem. It was intended to force southern states to allow former slaves citizenship and the vote. It was not intended to allow illegals to have babies that grant them a free ride in the USA.
Dual citizenship should be stopped also!
The robbery part makes no sense.

Punkin

It's the way the Constitution is being interpreted. It don't think it is the correct interpretation, however. Not all Americans of Hispanic descent are of the criminal type that flaunt immigration laws and/or encourage others to do the same. This daughter of legal immigrants hates illegal aliens and illegal immigration. We welcome all new members at http://youdontspeakforme.org/ an organization of Hispanic Americans who love America and support her immigration laws.

NSA

According to the actual 14th amendment, they are not automatically granted citizenship.'

Birthright citizenship is for children born to citizens; it can be offered to those born to legal visitors.

Mother of 5/Madre de 5

I am an American citizen who bore the children of an illegal immigrant who later became a legal resident (in 2006 the application process takes about 5 years). Does this make my children anchor babies? I think not! My children have every right to be in this country, and any child born in this country also has that right! Thank God for the U.S. Constitution!

bakphx

The upside is that the babies aren't illegals! :0)

John

That's due to our out-of-date Fourteenth Amendment.

buddy

land mines

GoYankees&Giants!

Unfortunately, it's part of our Constitution. But the good news is there's a bill called AJR 44 in Congress which focuses to modify the 14th Amendment to exclude illegals of this priveledge.

tuesday101

well, in this country it's starting to change from 'innocent till proven guilty' to 'guilty until proven innocent'. But it doesn't go forward to illegals, sadly. I hope it changes on that subject.

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Orphanages.

Whyruafraid?

Because it's the law. if you don't like it, gather up enough money to pay off a group of politicians to change it, or get the hell out of my country!

Honestly, What part of LEGAL don't you understand!

We only want LEGAL citizens here, not illegals. Anchor babies are LEGAL Americans, it's the LAW.

Harmony

Because that's the way it is. I myself was born here with BOTH parents who WERE illegal(past tense, they are not illegal anymore!) And you know what? I thank God each and everyday for giving me the opportunity to be born here. My life has changed dramatically. I am about to graduate high school and go to college. I am so grateful for the opportunities this country has given me. i am sorry that you feel that way about us. We are not bad people. And we have the same right to be here as you.

Lori, let's say your parents were born in........germany. And they decided they wanted to move to the U.S. If you were born in the U.S do you believe you should be 'german' instead of american?

az guy,
I never said your parents were illegal. Oh and by the way, before they came here as 'criminals' they tried to do it the right way. But the U.S didn't give them visas. But atleast they are legal now.

Potato

American law does not transfer crime to a second person when the same person was not even present or alive at the moment of the alleged crime.

Until a person is convicted in a court of law, they all presume innocent.

Ps- Please read again my answer above- Also

The law in the U.S does not work base in my or your opinion.

UNTIL a person is not convict in a court of law you can not affirm that person is a criminal.

You can have a opinion but your opinion does not have any law validity.

Private individuals do not have legal power to establish if someone is guilt or not. Only the government using the legal court system can establish that kind of position. Until a court verdict is impose most opinions are just hot air opinions.

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