Posted on 12/08/2006 7:28:47 PM PST by dennisw
Despite being trapped in a cramped airplane thousands of feet in the air, a pregnant Mexican woman en route to Chicago found herself in the right place at the right time -- giving birth to a healthy baby girl with the help of a fellow passenger. The 42-year-old woman gave birth to a 7-pound, 8-ounce girl approximately a half hour before the plane touched down at O'Hare just before midnight Wednesday, said Eve Rodriguez, Chicago Fire Department assistant director of media affairs.
Baby 'alert, looking around' The woman, a Mexican citizen, was on a Mexicana Airlines flight from Guadalajara when she went into labor. "I was kind of surprised how calm everyone was," said Lori Perez who, along with fellow paramedic Enoch Benson of O'Hare's Rescue Station 3, boarded the plane to take mother and baby to Resurrection Medical Center.
"Mom was in good spirits, she said there was a doctor on board and that she wasn't in a lot of pain."
Perez said that although she didn't catch the obstetrician's name, his handiwork was good.
"The baby girl was not really crying; she was alert and looking around," Perez said.
Airspace matters Mexicana Airlines officials did not return calls to explain whether the woman had presented a doctor's authorization to fly six months or more into a pregnancy, as its own rules require. Whether the baby girl is the United States' newest citizen remains to be seen, according to Maria Elena Garcia-Upson, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services spokeswoman.
An immigration law provision makes a child born in airspace over U.S. territory eligible for citizenship.
But if the parents decide to file an application, officials will investigate whether the child was born in Mexican air-space or over international waters.
"The parents can go ahead and pursue citizenship for the child if they so wish," said Garcia-Upson.
"But we don't decide on cases like this in a public forum. Facts need to be determined first."
sheesh!
Sight the case law please.
Who gets on a plane to fly somewhere when they're ready to have a child at any moment?
Totally untrue. Crystal clear violation of the 14th Amendment's jurisdiction clause:
"All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the state wherein they reside."
Any citizens of a foreign nation are by fact NOT subject to the jurisdiction of the United States. This is why foreign diplomats in New York don't have their wives giving birth to American citizens. There is no debate about that. So why is there any debate about this or ANY so-called "anchor babies". There is NO SUCH THING. Any baby born to an illegal Mexican alien is a citizen of MEXICO...NOT the U.S.
IF there is such a "provision" in immigration law it is unconstitutional. Any judge ruling otherwise should be impeached. The SCOTUS needs to take this issue up and rule correctly so we can finally have an end to this unlawful law.
LOL! I really must rent that tape again.
Not true. She was born on a Mexican aircraft which by both U.S. and International law is Mexican soil.
a baby was born, healthy and safe.
You would think this "pro life" board would rejoice.
But snideness is the order of the day whenever it is a Mexican baby.
If she was a British citizen then her baby would be a British citizen as well, regardless of the irrelevant matter of where it was born. You are an idiot to suggest that race has anything to do with it. We are a nation of laws, dammit.
LOL.
Another slick ILLEGAL with an agenda?
"An immigration law provision makes a child born in airspace over U.S. territory eligible for citizenship."
You are nothing but a racial propagandist who has no place on this forum. Read the 14th Amendment. Children of foreign citizens are foreign citizens. We don't care what nation they are from. But the vast majority are from Mexico. I know facts are inconvenient to propagandists, so I don't expect you to understand.
No thanks to the reckless woman who went on a flight knowing she could give birth at any moment. Would you do this? That was my wife's first comment...what was she doing on a plane?
Do you know when the baby was due?
YOu can fly up to 3 weeks prior to due date. Used to be 6 weeks.
Don’t need to site case law …
The Constitution seems pretty clear:
All persons born or naturalized in the United States and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside.
Child was born while within territorial bounds of the US.
Name calling is your modus operandi isn't it.
I did not comment on the citizenship issue. I commented on the generally negative, nasty comments of people on this board who if you see on other threads declare they are "pro life".
I am a racial propagandist? YOu are a nasty namecaller who doesn't know what you are spouting so blinded are you by your racist feelings and hate.
She should be charged with "Conspiracy to Have a Baby in CONUS Airspace"
"what was she doing on a plane?"
Making sure her child would be a US citizen.
"That was my wife's first comment...what was she doing on a plane?"
Exactly, she was on a plane to Chicago to have an anchor baby at taxpayer expense. She didn't quite make it.
It is insane we, as a country, put up with this.
If it's a problem with the law, change it!
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