blatant premeditated anchor baby...!
I want these mother&^%&^$ing babies off this mother(*(_*^%ing plane.
Regardless of citizenship, she'll get to stay. Since when do we send back foreign nationals in this country?
And if it had been a British Airways flight and the woman a British national; no one on this forum would give a damn.
So if you want your kid to be an American citizen, all you have to do is book a flight from Tijuana to Vancouver and induce labor right after takeoff. Or fly back and forth repeatedly until nature takes its course.
This makes no sense to me. I know kids born to diplomats while on US soil aren't automatic Americans. I'd think people just flying through our airspace would be treated the same.
This is getting ridiculous.
What kind of person would get on an airplane while in labor?
The reason a woman that pregnant was flying to the US is patently obvious. The child should be denied citizenship. Furthermore we need to change the laws regarding the children of illegals. While I have no problem giving citizenship to the children of legal immigrants but the children of illegals should not be citizens. A shame we have to do this but rampant abuse of the law by Mexicans is forcing our hand. We need to stamp out the problem of anchor babies.
She's a Mexican. That's the only reasonable conclusion.
A mess created from a bizarre interpretation of the constitution.
this shouldn't even be a question to be seriously considered. The travesty which is the anchor-baby problem is unconstitional but does pass the extra-judicial test and is therefore a parasite on our founding documents. What other place in the world does the physical location of your birth change your citizenship? And why would we want to be like any of those places? I'm sure the Guatemalans would love to be given Mexican citizenship for having their babies in Oaxaca but you don't see Mexico running around passing out papers to any illegal in THEIR country.
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then officials have to investigate whether the child was born in Mexican airspace or international waters
Was this person on a F-18 going the Mach 3 from Mexico to Chicago.
hmmmm wonder why Italians born to immigrants in NY in 1930 were not citizens till their parents were naturalized?
Reminds me of the old joke "If a plane crashed on the US / Canadian border, where would they bury the survivors?"
When the anchor baby block starts to vote out tax dollars to reward madre and padre for their years of sufference at the hands of America this country will end.
The only way out of that scenario is for us to take a stand now. We must stop the George Bush's of the world who won't lift a finger to stop this invasion. God help us.
She wasn't "in" the United States until she cleared customs. Much like Cubans who have no claim to asylum until their feet actually touch US soil. Just being enroute either in the US territorial waters or US airspace doesn't count. And she was not "residing" in any state.
She has no claim to American citizenship.
If an American has a baby while visiting Mexico, does that mean the baby is automatically a Mexican citizen? Inquiring minds want to know.
If this is upheld, any child born on a boat within 200 miles of our coast is also US born.
A clue