[astyanax]

The Heritage Foundation has a great article on birthright citizenship, but it seems to be down.
I did find this:
Justice Brennan's Footnote Gave Us Anchor Babies

[Electric Graffiti]

Thanks.......So Brennan and Kennedy killed America.

Good article by Ann. I’ll have to read more on Brennan.

[Varda]

Personally I loath this line of reasoning because it's the same one that pro-abortion/infanticide forces use, (ie. that the baby is simply an extension of the mother). Fortunately under our law the baby is a person the moment he is born.

Therefore Anchor babies are a different issue than citizenship because the baby and the mother are two different persons. (also the idea that the mother is "entitled" to stuff from the government is a problem of socialism and has nothing to do with the constitution)

"The drafters of the 14th amendment had no intention of conferring citizenship on the children of aliens who happened to be born in the U.S."

This isn't true. They knew the ramifications of the amendment and debated it's consequences.

"May 30 began with Senator Howard proposing to add the citizenship clause to § 1 of the Fourteenth Amendment as follows: "All persons born in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the States wherein they reside."[138] This language was designed to settle the issue raised in Dred Scott — that is, who are citizens and thus have the bundle of rights appertaining to citizenship. After a raucous debate over making Indians, coolies, and gypsies citizens, the Senate passed Howard's language.[139]" http://www.constitution.org/col/intent_14th.htm