The Constitution does not grant any rights. It protects them, sometimes it restricts them by granting a power to government, but it does not grant them. In Jefferson's words of the Declaration of Independence, they are "endowed by their Creator". Not all rights are expressly protected either, that's why the put in the ninth amendment.
This article confuses jurisdiction with allegiance, they are hardly the same thing.
Anchor babies are a creation of the law, and the courts, not the 14th amendment.
Even if a child born to illegals is a natural born citizen, it does not follow that the parents should be allowed to stay. They can leave the child with legals, or take it back with them, with the child having the ability to return as a citizen. I know at least two people whose parents did just that, that is return to their home country, with the child eventually returning as a citizen. Both good ones too.
Even if a child born to illegals is a natural born citizen, it does not follow that the parents should be allowed to stay. They can leave the child with legals, or take it back with them, with the child having the ability to return as a citizen. I know at least two people whose parents did just that, that is return to their home country, with the child eventually returning as a citizen. Both good ones too.
This I agree with.
That the baby is a US citizen cannot be denied by any serious reading of the 14th Amendment. But the parents are not citizens, and I do not believe that they should get any rights of residence based on relation to a minor citizen.
Let the baby stay, if it has a resident or citizen guardian. If not, then the baby must return to the parents' country, and may return when he reaches the age of majority.
If the baby has no legal guardian in the US, and the parents are willing to give up their rights to the child, then the child may stay, going to child services for placement with a new family.
Either way, the non-citizen illegals go home.
And I would add teeth to the law, and ban them permanently. They cannot be sponsored eighteen years later by their citizen child. The child, who is blameless, may reap the benefits of citizenship as an adult. The parents, who are criminals, may never do so.