Anchor Babies: The Children of Illegal Aliens

Federation for American Immigration Reform ^ | Feb.'07 | staff

[T.L.Sink]

Congressional action warranted: the Fourteenth Amendment stipulates that Congress has the power to enforce its provisions by enactment of legislation, and the power to enforce a law is necessarily accompanied by the authority to interpret that law. Therefore, an act of Congress stating its interpretation of the 14th Amendment, as not to include the offspring of illegal aliens, would fall within Congress's prerogative. The cost of educating illegal alien children in the nation's seven states with the highest concentration of illegal aliens was $3.1 billion in 1993(which with the growth of their population to 1.3 million, would be more like $5 billion in 2000). This does not take into account the costs of bilingual education or other special educational needs.

[stevio]

Personally, I still don’t think that would make any difference.

[RightWhale]

Legal history comes up often enough that we might do well to read up a little. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. wrote a neat history that might well be on some reading lists. Vico in ‘New Science’ gave an interesting history of Roman law and the origin of the state. For those that wonder how a corporation came to be a legal person there is ‘Gangs of America,’ although Vico also mentions the personhood of companies under the Monarch.