Legislators are trying to make citizenship more difficult for children of illegal immigrants. Image: Flickr / wiredwitch / CC-BY-SA
In a press conference today, the group State Legislators for Legal Immigration announced new model legislation. This legislation seeks to strip citizenship from children of illegal immigrants. These so-called “anchor babies” are the newest target of the immigration debate.
Who are anchor babies?
“Anchor babies” is a name given to people who are born in the United States to parents who are illegal immigrants. These children are legal United States citizens, though their parents are not. This is allowed by Section 1 of the 14th Amendment, which states:
“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.”
The Civil Rights Act of 1866 also grants U.S. Citizenship “to all persons born in the United States not subject to any foreign power.”
State Legislators for Legal Immigration
State Legislators for Legal Immigration is a coalition that was originally started by Pennsylvania State Representative Daryl D. Metcalf. Its mission statement says that the group works toward ” eliminating all economic attractions and incentives (including, but not limited to: public benefits, welfare, education and employment opportunities) for illegal aliens, as well as securing our borders against unlawful invasion.” This group has supported Arizona’s controversial immigration reform and has employed constitutional and legal scholars to provide support to states trying to reform immigration.
The anchor baby model legislation
The SLLI released “model legislation” that strips citizenship from individuals born in the United States if their parents are not citizens. The SLLI says the policy of citizenship-by-birth encourages illegal immigration and makes it easier to circumvent immigration procedures. No state legislature has yet to try to pass the model legislation, though lawmakers from 40 states have signed on to the SLLI. This legislation is sure to be very controversial, no matter which state chooses to try to pass it first.
Well, I'm glad to see this practice of granting U.S. citizenship to illegal alien children might end, and well it should, but let me go throught this one more time.
It is against the law to enter this Country ILLEGALLY. Correct? OK. However, if you do come into this country ILLEGALLY and have a child, we will reward that child with a U.S. birth certificate and make him or her a citizen of the United States, pay for the birth and get the child on welfare so the mother can get money to stay in this country…and that's not ALL! We will school that child and the child will get food stamps, the child will get FREE school lunches, and that's not ALL! The mother and the child can have FREE healthcare and get into public housing, and that's not ALL! The more children you have, the more money you will get. But keep in mind, it is against the law to enter this country ILLEGALLY! Do I have that right? OK. How do you feel about Birth Tourism?
http://www.eturbonews.com/15529/us-birth-tourism-…
OVERBURDENED TAXPAYERS MUST SPEAK UP NOW?
A welfare program that defies logic is the fiscal impact of the misinterpretation of the 14th Amendment, drawing each year thousands of illegal pregnant women in some cases husbands who are intentionally bring their unborn child, to become a huge financial burden to taxpayers, who are forced by law to support the baby and mother under the provision the Instant citizenship law. It is estimated that 300.000 pregnant women claim citizenship for their children annually, which costs are magnified as the female keeps giving birth. That means–ONE–in–THIRTEEN is a child of an illegal alien. The parents stay and then have more babies that the taxed-out American is forced to pay for. Add Key word terminology of certain words into Google or other search engine and judge for yourself, how Americans have been fooled to pay higher taxes to pay for this enigma in the law; as an example–Illegal Alien costs.
In 1994, 74,987 instant citizen babies in maternity wards cost taxpayers $215 million in Stockton, California, without paying a penny. In 2003, 70 percent of the 2,300 babies born in San Joaquin General maternity units were from illegal parents. That number has exploded today with over four million illegal aliens residing are now residing in California. Then nine out of ten babies born in Parkland Hospital in Dallas, Texas stem from illegal immigrant mothers. Additional costs for illegal alien children stem from a pay day for lawyers, translators, advocates and middlemen. Medi-Cal in 2003 sponsored 760,000 illegal alien offspring in Supplemental Security Income. SSI is a non-means-treated federal grant of cash payments and food stamps anf government medical care. With over three million illegal nationals arriving annually, they birth 300,000 newly issued birth certificates babies in California alone and you pay the maximum in taxes. When these legal ‘American’ babies grow reach 18, they can sponsor through ‘chain migration’ their whole family into our country. We are talking about a crisis so monolithic, your children and this nation will not survive it. The consequences are unacceptable and the cost yearly in hundreds of billions is incomprehensible?
THE SIMPLE FACT THAT INSTANT CITIZENSHIP BABY LAW WAS CONSTRUCTED FOR SOLEY NEWLY RELEASED SLAVES, AS AT THE TIME OF THE CIVIL WAR THERE WAS NO SUCH THING AS ILLEGAL ALIENS IN AMERICA? SO THE QUESTION THAT SHOULD BE ASKED BY STATES AND EVENTUALLY THE SUPREME COURT IS HOW CAN THIS AMENDMENT APPLY TO FOREIGN NATIONALS, IN THE FIRST INSTANCE? ILLEGAL ALIENS ARE ILLEGAL AND SHOULD BE DEPORTED.
IT SHOULD BE REMEMBERED THAT ORDINARY TAXPAYING AMERICANS ARE THE–STUCKEE–FOR FARM OWNERS, CORPORATE AND BUSINESSES–LARGE AND SMALL, WHICH IS SIMPLY A CRIMINAL CORPORATE GIANT WELFARE PROGRAM.
Unseen to the Public eye is the Amnesties that are activated silently since 2002; seven in all, along with an average of 1.5 million legal immigrants that ends up in the US workplace, while an estimated 15 million citizens and permanent residents remain jobless? The US government rather hesitantly stated that for every ONE dollar illegal aliens get in Social Services, they receive back in tax credits, food stamps and whole mass of programs–THREE dollars.
Now it’s up to the American people to speak out, get involved and demand from the new Congress a halt to any further Amnesties, which includes the Dream Act Stand with States, the rising, unbounded TEA PARTY that are adjoined to mandate E-Verify nationally, to condemn any irrational Immigration Reform as this recession is very slowly lifting. America has been overwhelmed by foreign nationals and their children, who keep demanding special privileges over our own low income people. Every day the numbers of illegal aliens are climbing and you as an American or green card holder pay the penalty in your taxes. Don't be mislead that there are only 12 million illegal immigrant criminals in this country?
State wide there are propagating grass roots organization, that are against this invasion crossing oceans or borders to further overpopulate http://www.numbersusa.com partially instrumental in any amnesty downfall. Now is the time to significantly make a difference in the new Congress, by adding your demands to millions of other individuals to enforce our Immigration laws, as cited in the 1986 bill. Call your Senator or Congressman through the Washington Switchboard at 202-224-3121 Every American should make it a national interest to stop this immigration travesty and realize that there are thousands of ominous organizations against you. Most politicians are mentally crippled by this issue and rather stay out of the spotlight. Find out for yourself the intentions of your elected lawmakers, local, state and federal and tell them to positively address this issue or you will vote against them in the next election.