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""Anchor babies" as in UNITED STATES CITIZENS per the 14th Amendment to the UNITED STATES CONSTITUTION?"

The 14th Amendment reads in part: " All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States".

Where do you see anything about their parents' prior illegal actions being erased by the birth of the minor child? The child has the option of citizenship on his or her 18th birthday, but may not maintain both US and Mexican citizenships simultaneously. However, the parents are not US citizens, and are in fact still criminal aliens. As such, they can be deported. The child, being in the custody of the parents, could legally be sent to a state-run facility for those without suitable and available parents, or could (at the option of the parents) be sent with them to their country of origin.

That seems a far more reasonable course of action than to allow criminal aliens to further their criminal actions (remaining in the United States illegally) simply because they've stayed hidden long enough to spawn an anchor.

I don't see anything about their parents' prior illegal actions being erased by the birth of the minor child, but said child is a U.S. citizen from birth and I don't think deporting parents / sending her to a state-run facility is a good option either. Bush's guest worker program addresses all of this easily.

Having a child who is an American Citizen by birth does not entitle the parents to any legal status. I am not a lawyer, but I am an alien parent of a child born in the U.S., so I do know this first-hand. The problem is, noone is prosecuting and extraditing the illegals (with or without babies). This pisses me and people like me who have gone the legal way immensely.