Posted on 10/06/2016 8:11:24 AM PDT by detective
According to a recent Pew Research Center study, roughly one out of every twelve newborns in the United States is a so-called ‘anchor baby.’ An anchor baby is a child born in the U.S. to a foreign women who came here to take advantage of the fact that all persons born in the United States are citizens of the United States. That right is guaranteed by the 14th Amendment. There is a problem here. Who is paying for the costs involved?
In particular, who is paying the initial and future medical costs, the down-the-road educational costs and any social benefits these children may be entitled to? To put the matter into a sharper perspective, consider the recent story of a Honduran women who is believed to be the first foreign woman to have a Zika baby born in the New York area. Who exactly is to pay the estimated cost of treatment of this child that could amount to over $1 million.
(Excerpt) Read more at forbes.com ...
This is a must read article.
The problems with anchor babies are serious and covered up by the media. People are rightfully becoming more concerned about those who take advantage of “free and easy” citizenship, so their children can benefit from taxpayer funded welfare, education and medical programs.
When it came time to take the oath she was paying it lip service.
Then 30 seconds later she was a "citizen".
I think I found one of these places in Tustin, CA. Near a condo cluster I saw nine month pregnant Chinese women in small groups walking back and forth to the local minimall stores.
We really really need an amendment to the constitution clarifying birthright citizenship as well as natural born citizenship.
WE NEED TO DISALLOW CITIZENSHIP at least from this point forward TO ANYONE BORN HERE TO ILLEGAL OR TOURIST PARENTS. Then boom, it stops. Birthright for citizens and legal residents only.
I knew someone born in France, lived her whole life in France, yet was never French and could not get a work permit.
In four months this can stop. Completely.
An anchor baby is a child born in the U.S. to a foreign women who came here to take advantage of the fact that all persons born in the United States are citizens of the United States. That right is guaranteed by the 14th Amendment.
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This is a misinterpretation of the 14th.
It needs to be corrected.
Anchor babies may be considered citizens, but they are NOT natural born citizens.
No amendment needed, this is a misinterpretation.
When will Politicians have the guts to say it: We don’t NEED anymore people in this country!
No, kid, its not guaranteed to everyone under the 14th Amendment...
that Amendment was written for former slaves and their descendants, not the anchor babies of illegal aliens...
If it was for everyone the children of foreign diplomats would be included, but they are not...
and their mothers are here LEGALLY...
Oh and Indians were not included in the 14th Amendment either...
and their ancestors were here centuries before the Constitution...
they cant be citizens...
their parents were not “under the jurisdiction” when they were born...
I don't believe it is.
BULLSH!T!
Every so called ‘citizen’ of the United States born to foreign nationals are a citizen of their parent's country.
Their ‘citizenship’ can't be decreed by the courts. It's imaginary.
Deport their asses. NOW!
“An anchor baby is a child born in the U.S. to a foreign women who came here to take advantage of the fact that all persons born in the United States are citizens of the United States. That right is guaranteed by the 14th Amendment.”
We haven’t had a President with the guts to sign something like this, let alone push it through Congress...but Trump would do this. For this one reason only, I would vote for him (though there are a host of other reasons why he will be orders of magnitude better for this country than the Witch of Chappaqua.
Yes. Children born to foreign nationals whether here legally or illegally are NOT citizens of the United States.....and no, the courts can't make anyone a citizen.
That right is guaranteed by the 14th Amendment.”
Gosh. It would have been so easy for a writer at Forbes to do a little research for his article. Such is the state of modern “journalism.”
We are bold enough to presume President Trump would set the wheels into motion to halt this horrid mutation to our Constitution. Illegal aliens are one bad thing, that they come in and acquire US citizenship through the back door is even more atrocious.
The left has lied about this issue until all Americans believe it to be true; just as they are now lying that any US citizen is qualified to be President. Lies told over and over again are eventually deemed to be true.
re: “foreign women who came here to take advantage of the fact that all persons born in the US are US citizens
The author starts with an bad definition and goes downhill from there. Why is there so much ignorance on all sides of the immigration debate?
1) Anchor baby applies to both fathers and mothers, not just “women”.
2) Only a small percentage of immigrants who have anchor babies come here for that reason. Most come here for work, education or tourism. A few come here because they are criminals fleeing the local police in the old country. A few are fleeing terrorists or honor killings. A few are coming to collect refugee aid. Even less come here for the purpose of having anchor babies.
3) People of Mexican ancestry have a lower rate of applying for and taking welfare to which they are qualified than White native born Americans..and of course less than Blacks and certainly less than original native Americans. So the author plays games with statistics to exaggerate claims of welfare.
The solution is simple:
1) No welfare (EITC, EBT, SNAP, WIC, SEC8, TANF, Medicaid, Kidcare, etc) to immigrants including refugees (who get the biggest welfare for their numbers) and including illegal, legal and naturalized citizens.
2) No murderers, rapists, DUI drivers. No terrorists. Every immigrant has to agree to the Dec of Independence Constitution and Bill of Rights explicitly with real live tests of their sincerity.
3) Non-citizens do not have the “right” to be in the US. It is a privilege. Deportation without a court hearing is not a violation of their “rights” because they have not right to be here. Non-citizens do are not covered by the 14th Amendment Equal Protection of the Law. That is precisely why the 14th defines citizenship...to limit Equal Protection to citizens only.
4) So cheaply deport the 10% who are undesireables (in my experience far more than 10% of Russians and Middle Eastern types are involved in major crime, welfare fraud, etc and hence undesireable.)
There aren’t many journalists left.
Mostly what we have are propagandists working for the Ministry of Propaganda.
Sharyl Attkisson is one of the few I can think of.
Wrong! The 14th Amendment does NOT provide American citiz bebop for “anchor babies” ! -— giving them citizenship is a purely political choice ( congress can grant or deny). In short, citing the citizenship clause to justify giving anchor babies USA citizenship just does not work. Or, if you prefer, it’s a con -—— “All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside.”. Note that part about being subject to the jurisdiction of the USA —— anchor babies are subject to the jurisdiction of their parents and thus are born with the citizenship of their parents’ country, back home, whether it be communist china or any of Obama’s glorious Krapistans, Anchor babies are not American citizens by means of the constitution. Same for the huge “tourism baby- dropping” industry’s many baby- mills in USA . The babies are Not American citizens except as c0ngress chooses to confer upon them. The 14th amendment was very carefully worded. It was directed at black slaves’ babies — where the parents were American citizens. Children born here of foreign parents are specifically not addressed or covered. If congress had the will, it could legislate to fix the anchor baby problem. But, congress does not wish to do so.
the Witch of Chappaqua.
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The Wicked Witch of Chappaqua
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