Report: 8 percent of U.S. newborns have undocumented parents (Totally unsustainable)

One of about every 12 babies born in the United States in 2008 was the offspring of unauthorized immigrants, a Pew Hispanic Center study released Wednesday concluded.

According to the study, an estimated 340,000 of the 4.3 million babies born in this country that year had parents who were in the United States without legal documentation.

The 14th Amendment to the Constitution stipulates that those children automatically become U.S. citizens, but some members of Congress are pushing to change that provision. That effort -- rooted in the debate over illegal immigration, particularly of people from Mexico -- has created some controversy.

“More than three-fourths of all unauthorized immigrants in the United States in March 2009 were Latinos, the researcher said. And nearly one of every four children under age 18 in the nation was a Hispanic.
That trend is likely to continue, the study concludes.
“Overall, Hispanics who live in the U.S. have higher rates of fertility than do whites, blacks or Asians,” the report states. “And among Hispanics, the foreign born have higher rates of fertility than the native born.””

This is why the Republican party is in trouble in the long term. These people will most likely go for those who promise them the most goodies. Hispanics are a friendly demographic for Democrats and there is no reason to suspect that that’ll change.

“The 14th Amendment to the Constitution stipulates that those children automatically become U.S. citizens . . .”

No. It stipulates that citizens born to parents under the jurisdiction of the US are citizens. Some would argue that illegal immigrants are not under the jurisdiction.

Report: 8 percent of U.S. newborns have undocumented parents

That means they have no parents. They should be taken by the DHHS and placed in foster homes.

The illegal invaders should be spirited back across the border.

No. It stipulates that citizens born to parents under the jurisdiction of the US are citizens. Some would argue that illegal immigrants are not under the jurisdiction.

Those “some” don’t know what they are talking about. A century of Supreme Court decisions has determined that those aliens with diplomatic immunity and members of foreign occupying militaries are about the only people who aren’t “under the jurisdiction thereof”.

Our prisons are loaded with illegal aliens who committed crimes “under the jurisdiction” of the US. We deport illegals when we catch them under the jurisdiction of US law and just because an illegal alien’s child has US citizenship doesn’t mean that the parents can’t still be deported. It happens quite frequently: the illegal can either leave their American child behind with legal relatives or they can take their American citizen child back across the border with them when they are deported.

‘Those “some” don’t know what they are talking about. A century of Supreme Court decisions has determined that those aliens with diplomatic immunity and members of foreign occupying militaries are about the only people who aren’t “under the jurisdiction thereof”. ‘

Those SC decisions do not mirror the SC decisions of 19th century. There were multiple cases about this.

Only when the constitution became a living, breathing document did things start changing.

Those SC decisions do not mirror the SC decisions of 19th century. There were multiple cases about this.

Only when the constitution became a living, breathing document did things start changing.

I can’t think of any Supreme Court decisions that limited citizenship that came AFTER the ratification of the 14th Amendment in 1865 which is where the term “subject to the jurisdiction thereof” originated. Once the Constitution limited citizenship to only two categories: born citizens and naturalized citizens, things changed, regardless of the ideological majority on the Court. For example, there has been a five-four conservative, originalist, strict constructionist majority on the high court for quite a while now and no decision has come down altering the anchor baby situation.
The last time that there was a solid liberal majority on the Supreme Court was in the 1960’s.
When he was a Congressman, the primary author of the Constitution, James Madison said the following from the floor of the House of Representatives: “It is an established maxim that birth is a criterion of allegiance. Birth, however, derives its force sometimes from place, and sometimes from parentage; but in general place is the most certain criterion; it is what applies in the United States; it will, therefore, be unnecessary to examine any other.”—James Madison, Founding Father, Framer of the Constitution, 4th President of the United States

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