[Menehune56]

It appears the anchor baby abuse really got going in 1982 with the Supreme Court decision entitled Plyler v. Doe (5 to 4 naturally) which required that the children of illegal aliens be educated at US taxpayer expense. Also in this decision is Justice William J. Brennan’s infamous footnote that “no plausible distinction with respect to Fourteenth Amendment ‘jurisdiction’ can be drawn between resident aliens whose entry into the United States was lawful, and resident aliens whose entry was unlawful.”

So anchor babies became defacto US citizens and therefore eligible for taxpayer provided welfare and public education. And here we are 33 years later.

[Tucker39]

Except that Brennan and the SCOTUS are NOT empowered by the Constitution to set immigration policy. Only Congress can do THAT.

So Brennan may have thought that his footnote was clever beyond words, but he was just whistling You Ain’t Nuthin’ But A Gound Dog as far as it carrying any LEGAL authority.

Wait until Mr. Trump is ensconced in the Oval Office.

[berdie]

Thank you. I appreciate your response. It makes sense that would have been the starting point.

It also gives me a couple of other areas to research. :)