The correct solution to the issue of "anchor babies" is to "cut the anchor chain". In most jurisdictions, parents can lose their parental rights in cases of child neglect or endangerment (or for less sometimes). The crimes that qualify for revocation of parental rights should be expanded to include having a baby while in the country illegally.
Take the citizen babies away from the illegal parents, adopt them out, and then deport the parents, and the issue of "anchor babies" will disappear. Guaranteed.
Yes, having read the thread by now, I agree with you (not that I didn't originally).
However, because the 14th Amendment has been so abused if not intellectually bludgeoned to enable all sorts of violations of the intent of the Amendment (AND the Constitution), it's now necessary to hold Hearings and propose additional legislation to even uphold the 14th!
The Constitution is often as clear as a bell and yet it's necessary to argue out intent and content because of so many abuses and manipulations of the terms. We should be enforcing the laws we have, problems solved.
But, we aren't, as a nation and thus, these problems in even discussing the violations. What's wrong with Congress, I just don't know.