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if a child is born here, I would argue that he deserves the chance to stay.

That's what they're counting on. I've read stories where illegal alien women, 8-9 months pregnant, make their way here to have their baby just so they can use that clause. Time to dump it. No anchor babies.

[MineralMan]

"That's what they're counting on. I've read stories where illegal alien women, 8-9 months pregnant, make their way here to have their baby just so they can use that clause. Time to dump it. No anchor babies."

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The thing is, that will take a Constitutional Amendment, and such an amendment is unlikely to be successfully done. It's hard to amend the Constitution.

[samcgwire]

"That's what they're counting on. I've read stories where illegal alien women, 8-9 months pregnant, make their way here to have their baby just so they can use that clause. Time to dump it. No anchor babies."

The scores of cubic tons of debris left on private property at the border underscore that what you are saying is true.

[Bikers4Bush]

If you think that's bad listen to this. There are women who at between 7 and 9 months pregant fly over here on two month visas from the middle east. A lot of this has been happening in the detroit area.

They come to "visit family", lo and behold they wind up giving birth to, you guessed it, a future jihadist with American citizenship.

If you didn't think the present was scary enough the future holds much worse.

[Spiff]

That's what they're counting on. I've read stories where illegal alien women, 8-9 months pregnant, make their way here to have their baby just so they can use that clause. Time to dump it. No anchor babies.

Read stories? Heck, I live near the border and I've talked to several OB nurses as well as midwives who see this kind of thing EVERY DAY. No one is going to make me feel bad for that child if he/she gets sent back to Mexico where he/she should have been born in the first place. If daddy or mommy steals merchandise for their child's use, no logical person would propose letting the child keep that stolen merchandise just because it would be so darned mean to take it away, punish the thieving parent, and make the parents have to actually purchase such merchandise in the future. The same thing applies to ill-gotten citizenship.

[Froufrou]

You are right. BTW, pregnancy qualifies as an 'emergency' condition, so when they go into labor they get medicaid, certified in the labor room of the hospita, or after the delivery if it happens that fast.

They know it and that's why they come here. They take advantage of the system. Being born in Germany didn't make my SIL an automatic German citizen. Same should apply here.