Anchor babies with birthright citizenship is an idiotic policy that encourages migrants to come to the U.S. illegally

American Thinker ^ | 12/16/2024 | Jack Hellner

[SeekAndFind]

Birthright citizenship essentially invites people from around the world, who happen to be pregnant, to make every effort they can to come into our country, whether they break our laws to get in or not.

They don't want to take the time to go through the legal process so they just jump the line and come in to use our health care system, which they get for free, to have their babies here.

Then the baby of the illegals automatically becomes a citizen and we call that an anchor baby. The baby then qualifies for all the benefits of other U.S babies.

Then people who are pro-illegal on immigration say that we can't send the parents back because it would break up the family. Of course, the parents then get all of the benefits that other citizens get, because it would be unfair to the baby if we didn't hand them out.

And here is one of the most idiotic statements I have seen from Jason Riley, an opinion writer at the Wall Street Journal, who says illegal immigration will go way up if Trump gets his way to stop this ridiculous rule.

Trump’s Misguided Attack on Birthright Citizenship

 

He almost certainly lacks the power to end it, and doing so would swell the illegal population.

 

But ending birthright citizenship would almost certainly be at cross-purposes with his larger goal. Children who automatically become citizens would be counted going forward as illegal, like their parents, and the size of the illegal population would swell by the millions.

He says the illegal population would go up by millions if the baby becomes illegal. That is a person who clearly lacks common sense.

If we make the baby illegal, we would send the whole family back and it would substantially reduce the problem.

[butlerweave]

US citizens appear like Magic ,LOL

[Whatever Works]

The 14th amendment was a Reconstruction amendment which means it was created right after the Civil War. It was created to give newly freed slaves citizenship. It was never meant to provide citizenship to every foreigner who dropped a baby here. If one reads the writer’s meaning behind this amendment as it was argued before Congress, this is clear. It was reinterpreted later. We need to return to its original interpretation.

[VTenigma]

Captain obvious alert! Welcome to the party pal.

[philman_36]

Some know what needs to be changed and it isn't the 14th Amendment...

H. R. 6612

This Act may be cited as the “Birthright Citizenship Act of 2023”.
SEC. 2. Citizenship at birth for certain persons born in the United States.
(a) In general.—Section 301 of the Immigration and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 1401) is amended— Chase that false argument all you want, but it doesn't cover over the truth.

[Political Junkie Too]

Yes. Regarding the 14th amendmment:

• Section 1 declared free slaves to be citizens of the United States.

• Section 2 stripped states of representation in the House of Representatives if they prevented freed slaves from voting.

• Section 3 prevented participants from the south in the Civil War from holding federal office unless approved by Congress.

• Section 4 declared the United States to not be responsible for war debt from the South or the economic loss from freed slaves.

-PJ

[Tom Tetroxide]

That’s just one of the many incentives. Get rid of all the incentives, and I mean ALL of them, as well as enforcing the immigration laws we already have on the books, and you will see very a minimal amount of it.

[Georgia Girl 2]

So true. The 14th amendment didn’t even make American Indians citizens. It has been misinterpreted for decades.

[Cowgirl of Justice]

They come here to give birth and then file for welfare benefits which are happily given.

Think about THAT. YOUR tax dollars are being sent MONTHLY FOR AT LEAST 18 YEARS to crimmigrants who might just be on US soil long enough to sh!t out an illegal who is granted American citizenship just for honor of us paying for their breeding.

[Dahoser]

Just another thing to thank the Cape Cod Orca for having foisted on this country.

[Roadrunner383]

I’m glad Trump is going to issue an Executive Order, but Repubs in Congress need to also pass a law clearly laying out the requirements for birhtright citizenship. A clearly defined law would go a long way in cases before the SCOTUS which are sure to follow.

[philman_36]

A clearly defined law would go a long way in cases before the SCOTUS which are sure to follow.

One already exists and it needs to be amended. See my reply 5 above.

[Sacajaweau]

It's always been that if you were born here, you were a citizen. Their parents, one or both, became naturalized.

None of my grandparents ever became citizens but my aunts and uncles are all citizens....and it was not through the naturalization process...they were born here.

[No name given]

Exactly.

[No name given]

That’s right.

[Sacajaweau]

https://narf.org/the-indian-citizenship-act-at-100-years-old/

[philman_36]

Depending on the year they were born, thank USC 8, Sec. 1401(a) for their naturalization/citizenship.

[LouAvul]

“Idiotic policy” and “Democratic Party” is the height of redundancy.

[Redleg Duke]

When my late parents retired to Las Cruces, NM back in the ‘70s, they talked about the Mexican women in Juarez who would wait until their water broke and then jumped in a cab to cross the border to the nearest hospital in El Paso so that their baby would be born in the USA and then the whole extended family could come into the USA to be with their US Citizen baby.

Total friggin’ scam and it is time to end it!

[SauronOfMordor]

“ All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside.”

Why is the bolded part above there for, if not to qualify who this applies to? Formally admitted immigrants are subject to US jurisdiction, illegal invaders are not.