How to stop most "Anchor Babies" from being created.

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[DiogenesLamp]

The United States is being flooded with Immigrants, many of which have children here, and those children are currently regarded by the law as US Citizens. We refer to these children as "Anchor Babies", because they then allow for the rest of the family to be brought into the United States, thereby "anchoring" the family in the United States, where it otherwise would have no right to be.

An Interesting and clever way of addressing the problem has recently occurred to me. The 14th amendment was originally understood as not applying to Indians, because they were not regarded as "subject to the jurisdiction" of the United States. As a result, US Indians did not get automatic citizenship from the 14th amendment until 56 years later with the passage of the "Indian citizenship act of 1924".

So what does this have to do with "Anchor Babies"? Well, most of these Central/South American Immigrants are Indians, in the understanding of the Congress of 1868, and therefore if the "Indian Citizenship Act" was repealed, then the children born here to foreign Indians would no longer be citizens. Repealing the act would have no affect on US Indians because all US Indians have long since become American Citizens, and there are no Non-US-Citizen-Indians left in the United States.

The act has done it's job, and now no longer serves any other purpose other than allowing foreign Indians to claim citizenship for their children. If we repeal this act, which would only require a 50% vote in Congress, we wouldn't have to go through the fight necessary to amend the Constitution.

More importantly, it would CLARIFY the correct meaning of the 14th amendment, because it would be a defacto example of citizenship being denied from simply being born in the United States. It would be hard to argue with an actual and consistent example of such a thing, and then it would be obvious to everyone that if they can deny "Indians" not taxed, they can deny anyone else "not taxed", meaning all illegal or non domiciled foreigners (birth tourists) who have children in our country.

[tbw2]

At the Dallas county hospital where a lot of charity cases go, half the babies are listed as having illegal alien mothers. Note, this is a couple hundred miles from the Mexican border.
A good friend of mine was pissed when her teenaged daughter had an illegitimate baby, received none of the freebies for the poor and the Mom got the bill. What outraged her was the fact that if you filled out the form as “illegal alien”, they assumed:
* you’re poor, so no billing of family
* you’re so poor, you need extra diaper bags full of formula and diapers above what all mothers get, free cribs, free clothes, etc.
* the kid still gets Medicaid enrollment info, American birth certificate, etc

I suspect that the data on illegal alien parents having kids is inflated, because many hispanics claim it to avoid having to pay for services and get free stuff.

After all, Mexicans in Mexico now average 2 kids while the immigrants here are around 3.X. It is higher in the immigrants, but the fertility essentially two and a half times everyone else.

[DiogenesLamp]

If your point is that there is no will power among Americans to resist the invasion, then I expect you're right.

I guess people won't figure it out until they themselves are desperate, then they will wonder how they could have been so foolish.

[tbw2]

My thought is that the number of “anchor babies” may be inflated by people claiming to be illegal immigrant mothers who aren’t really such to get out of having to pay the bill AND get extra free stuff.

[DiogenesLamp]

I wouldn't put it past some people, but they wouldn't be doing this if it were not for the fact that people are giving them services and goods with no strings attached.

We should not be doing this.

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