[henkster]

About time we put a stop to that, don’t you think?

[Regulator]

It is unlikely that Congress intended such a broad application of the 14th Amendment’s Citizenship Clause, and the Supreme Court has only held that children born to citizens or permanently domiciled immigrants must be considered U.S. citizens at birth

That's entirely correct. The practice of considering the children of illegals as citizens is just that, a practice. It has no formal basis in law other then an implicit allowance from the Wong Kim Ark decision of 1898.

[nascarnation]

You can go to most any maternity ward (it doesn’t have to be in the “bad” part of town) and quickly learn two things:

1) most children being born are future Democrat voters

2) most of those births are being paid for by current Republican voters.

[Red Steel]

“It is unlikely that Congress intended such a broad application of the 14th Amendment’s Citizenship Clause, and the Supreme Court has only held that children born to citizens or permanently [legal] domiciled immigrants must be considered U.S. citizens at birth.

The open borders crowd have conflated the meaning of the U.S. v. Wong Kim Ark, 1898 opinion to include everyone.

[11th_VA]

During the debate over the 2010 federal health care overhaul, Democrats promised that illegal immigrants wouldn’t be among the 27 million people who’d gain coverage. President Barack Obama repeated that pledge last month when he outlined his immigration plan.

But while federal law generally bars illegal immigrants from being covered by Medicaid, a little-known part of the state-federal health insurance program for the poor pays about $2 billion a year for emergency treatment for a group of patients who, according to hospitals, mostly comprise illegal immigrants. Most of it goes to reimburse hospitals for delivering babies for women who show up in their emergency rooms, according to interviews with hospital officials and studies.

Link

[golux]

BUMP

[GOPJ]

...one out of 10 births in the U.S. is to an illegal immigrant mother

Stop granting citizenship based on birth and the problem goes away on it's own. Incentives work. Start docking the pay of ALL illegals an extra 20%. Give 5% to the employer (to give the employer an incentive to dock the pay) and put the other 15% in a Federal Savings Account payable to the worker when he 'self deports'... If the worker doesn't self deport within 5 years up the amount taken out of his pay and decrease the amount in his 'savings' account. People got here on theeir own - they can leave on their own.

[pfflier]

We foot the bill for nearly all of them.

[Buckeye McFrog]

For cripes sake don’t let THIS Congress “clarify” the issue. With their take on the matter all children born on this planet will get US Citizenship.

[MARKUSPRIME]

This has to end we are being invaded.

[DiogenesLamp]

Expert: Up to 400K Children Born To Illegal Immigrants in U.S. Annually, One In 10 Births

Another one of these threads.

My position is simple. The 14th amendment never said that, and there is no valid support for it either in common law or common sense.

[9YearLurker]

And Canada, presumably, has a better handle on their illegal population.

[Pelham]

bttt

[SgtHooper]

Ship em back with at least one parent! Seize all monies heading south.