Posted on 06/05/2005 8:22:22 AM PDT by Kokojmudd
Im sorry I dont, but it wouldnt be a bad idea though, this seriously needs to get done and soon!
One Anchor Baby - 14 Generations allowed in - is this a great country or what?
What puzzles me is that we are the most hated country in the world - but everyone wants to come here - what am I missing.
I didnt see my Congressman on there, Marty Meehan, heh, fat chance that would happen.
Amen. Many of the posts/replies on these threads are folks venting their frustration over an issue that they see as immutable.
The fact is, it isn't. We can fix this...but it's going to take the US making several changes.
One is to tax the remittances leaving the country, or (and?) attaching excise fees to the banks handling the transactions.
We need to deduct the 'cost' of illegal immigration from the foreign aid we dispense to places like Mexico, Jamaica, and Brazil.
We need to secure the border between the Ports of Entry.
We need to boost the number of work visas we issue.
We need to stop the practice of conferring citizenship on the babies if criminal aliens.
We need to deport, not incarcerate, criminal aliens who commit further crimes.
And that's just the start...
If the family can't pay the bill, it will be absorbed by the hospital and passed on to consumers and taxpayers.
Then, the child can grow up and shoot police officers in the back up in Denver. What a great country!
Go forth and reunificate!
Reunificate, v. - the joining together of families in their country of origin.
(or maybe it's a noun and not a verb? whatever, just do it.)
Thank you for posting HR 698 and the accompanying text. I've contacted my House Rep. Greg Walden [R-OR, 2nd district] requesting his support for the bill.
Meanwhile the taxpayers and the hospital must absorb the 6,000 to 9,000 dollars it cost to treat her and the new baby. I am hopeful she will keep her promise to the Virgin.
Uh, one day in a NICU is usually between $7000 - $10000, depending on the locale. That child will be at UMC for at least a month. Do the arithmetic.
California should just secede from the "Union", set up its own border patrol and deny immigration to the 49 states AND Mexico.
Deport them. They can go find that coyote for a refund. LOL.
I've recently seen arguments that this is not the law if both parents aren't citizens under US law. I'd like to see some authoritative comments on this; are the leftists just making the claim over and over to see if it sticks?
You're right. Anchor baby. JMJ.
"COMMENTARY: The principal purpose of this amendment was to make former slaves citizens of both the United States and the state in which they lived and to protect them from state-imposed discrimination. The terms of the amendment clarify how citizenship is acquired. State citizenship is a by-product of national citizenship. By living in a state, every U.S. citizen automatically becomes a citizen of that state as well. All persons naturalized (granted citizenship) according to law are U.S. citizens. Anyone born in the United States is also a citizen regardless of the nationality of his parents, unless they are diplomatic representatives of another country or enemies during a wartime occupation. Such cases are exceptions because the parents are not "subject to the jurisdiction" of the United States. The amendment does not grant citizenship to Native Americans living on reservations, but Congress has passed a law that did so."
Yet I read the following on another website (http://www.theamericanresistance.com/issues/anchor_babies.html):
"The 14th Amendment was ratified in 1868 to protect the rights of native-born Black Americans, whose rights were being denied as recently-freed slaves. In 1866, Senator Jacob Howard clearly spelled out the intent of the 14th Amendment by writing:
'Every person born within the limits of the United States, and subject to their jurisdiction, is by virtue of natural law and national law a citizen of the United States. This will not, of course, include persons born in the United States who are foreigners, aliens, who belong to the families of ambassadors or foreign ministers accredited to the Government of the United States, but will include every other class of persons.'
The original intent of the 14th Amendment was clearly not to facilitate illegal aliens defying U.S. law at taxpayer expense. Current estimates indicate there may be over 300,000 anchor babies born each year in the U.S., thus causing illegal alien mothers to add more to the U.S. population each year than immigration from all sources in an average year before 1965."
If the family can't pay the bill, it will be absorbed by the hospital and passed on to consumers and taxpayers.
one of the reasons why american health care is prohibitively expensive.
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