Anchor babies: more immigration folly

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Anchor babies: more immigration folly
Issue 120-16v: June 19, 2002

+== TIME-OUT PROJECT ==+

The Los Angeles Times reported a few weeks ago on a large and growing
industry in Asia catering to "birth tourists"  -- pregnant women who
time trips to the United States to coincide with their due dates. 

The motivation for these mothers-to-be is simple:  thanks to a gross
misinterpretation of the Fourteenth Amendment, the U.S. grants automatic
citizenship to any child born on U.S. soil. 

These children are known as "anchor babies."  That is, they may legally
"anchor" themselves and their extended families in the United States.
There are an estimated 200,000 such babies delivered in the United
States every year (including those born to illegal aliens).

Foreign women stand to gain much from having an anchor baby in the
family, but the benefit to the United States is unclear. 

The anchor baby phenomenon effectively removes control of immigration
from the American people and is a significant component in a population
explosion that now has the United States growing at a faster rate than
China.  Furthermore, anchor babies contribute to the dangerous trend
toward dual citizenship -- the holding of both U.S. and foreign
passports. 

The Fourteenth Amendment, on which "birthright citizenship" is based,
was originally enacted to ensure the voting rights of newly freed slaves
after the Civil War.  It was not intended to, say, make the child of the
French ambassador an American if it happens to be born in Washington
while the ambassador is serving.

The salient part of the amendment reads: 

"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." 

Neither a pregnant Mexican woman illegally in the United States, nor a
pregnant Korean tourist, is "subject to the jurisdiction" of the United
States.  They are subject to the jurisdiction of the countries of their
citizenship.  As such, their newborns are not subject to the American
people, and they are not American citizens.

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Korean moms want 'born in USA' babies (Seattle Times)
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/text/134461964_koreabirths26.html

The Great Attractor (John Derbyshire in National Review)
http://www.nationalreview.com/derbyshire/derbyshire052802.asp

Anchor Babies and Interpreting the 14th Amendment (FAIR)
http://www.fairus.org/html/04139708.htm

Forum on dual citizenship: Freedom means choice (Dan Stein in Pittsburgh
Post-Gazette)
http://www.post-gazette.com/forum/comm/20020616edstein16p1.asp

 

[AAABEST]

Gosh a chick that reads her constitution and takes "girls with guns" pics.

You are one hot babe with a lucky husband.

[FITZ]

The one good thing ---I read the Medicaid system is in serious financial trouble, the government types believed there would be a topping out of applicants at some point --but with immigration there is no end in sight of applicants to Medicaid and other welfare programs, hopefully it'll all come crashing down soon and we can start over with a less socialist system.