The women coming over to whelp their little bundle of joy anchor babies, and the ones dragging the rest over the border are doing so for economic reasons. The economic angle includes collecting very generous medical, housing, and welfare benefts, paid for by the US taxpayers.
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The women coming over to whelp their little bundle of joy anchor babies, and the ones dragging the rest over the border are doing so for economic reasons. The economic angle includes collecting very generous medical, housing, and welfare benefts, paid for by the US taxpayers. The only long-term solution is the elimination of welfare, in the sense of eliminating every program that makes it viable for a woman to have a child which she cannot support through the earnings of herself and her husband.