“Anchor babies” aren’t really much of an “anchor” if the statutes are followed (which unfortunately they aren’t). If the rules are followed, the anchor baby cannot sponsor anybody else until he or she is no longer a minor, some 18 years later. This is a slow process and assumes the parents still want to live permanently in America 18 years later. Our chiefest problem is not this, but the fact that almost anybody who waltzes northward across the Rio Grande without so much as a “by your leave” will probably be left alone by the US and state government unless they get themselves in major trouble.
Let’s face it. We’re now in the situation where we obey only the laws we choose to obey or (mis)interpret them to our liking:
Article.IV., Section. 4. U.S. Constitution:
The United States shall guarantee to every State in this Union a Republican Form of Government, and shall protect each of them against Invasion.
The reality is we’re being invaded and the plain English meaning of our Constitution is very clear - and very clearly being IGNORED!