If you are an undocumented immigrant in the US and 9 mos pregnant, would you stay or go?

Question

Doctors suggest that you dont fly in the 3rd trimester and most airlines wont let you go. Should you risk it, rather than have a "anchor baby"? Or stay?

ok let me add to that. You got pregnant here in the US and did not realize it til about a month ago. (it happens sometimes)

saying that you shouldnt have done something, does not make the fact that you have to make a new decision irrelevant.

Answer 1

Stay. SealRborders tax money can pay for the medical bills.
Undocumented = illegal immigrant, same thing.

Answer 2

According to estimates,
some 200,000 so-called anchor babies are born
in the United States every year

Once a mother has birthed a child on American soil,
she can then seek to obtain citizenship for herself
on the strength of the family-reunification laws.

Even before this happens, she is very hard to deport,
as the mother of an American,
and the full panoply of welfare benefits is available to her,
as is affirmative action if she is a member of a racial minority.

A group of attorneys and immigration experts
are trying to do something about the problem RIGHT NOW.

Craig Nelsen,
director of Friends of Immigration Law Enforcement Stated :
"The situation we have today is absurd,
There is a huge and growing industry in Asia
that arranges tourist visas for pregnant women
so they can fly to the United States
and give birth to an American.
This was not the intent of the Fourteenth Amendment;
it makes a mockery of citizenship."

(Sound Familiar??)

The key to undoing the current misinterpretation
of the Fourteenth Amendment is this odd phrase

"AND SUBJECT TO THE JURISDICTION THEREOF."

The whole problem is caused by the fact
that the meaning of this phrase,
which was clear to anyone versed in legal language in 1868,
has slipped with changes in usage.
Fortunately, there is a large group of court precedents
that make clear what the phrase actually means:

The Fourteenth Amendment EXCLUDES the children of aliens.
(The Slaughterhouse Cases (83 U.S. 36 (1873))

The Fourteenth Amendment draws a distinction
between the children of aliens
and children of citizens.
(Minor v. Happersett (88 U.S. 162 (1874))

The phrase "subject to the jurisdiction"
REQUIRES "Direct And Immediate ALLEGIENCE"
to the United States, NOT just physical presence.
(Elk v. Wilkins 112 U.S. 94 (1884))

There is NO
automatic birthright citizenship in a particular case.
(Wong Kim Ark Case, 169 U.S. 649 (1898))

The Supreme Court has NEVER confirmed
birthright citizenship for the children of
illegal aliens, temporary workers, and tourists.
(Plyler v. Doe, 457 U.S. 202, 211 n.10 (1982))

There are other cases referring to minor details of the question.

Answer 3

Mexico, and Canada are driving distance away. Europe is a boatride. If the baby is born on the way, they can stay they are not here illegally, however the mother still goes. it's up to the mother where the baby lives.

Answer 4

Of course they will stay. They pump out the baby here, (of course they have no idea who the daddy is) the baby is automatically a US citizen, and the mother gets to sit with her feet up collecting welfare, food stamps, is entitled to health care that US-born working people are not entitled to, and other benefits.

Answer 5

Well, how did you get here in the first place? And you must have known for at least a FEW months that you are pregnant, so why did you wait so long, unless you just want to get free medical care, and use some false id to get welfare benefits. (if you don't already)

Answer 6

I would stay! It is not good to fly when you are pregnant . And , also if you came from a country like Mexico, where it is not good to raise your child, then its better here for the baby!

Answer 7

Did she just suddenly wake up and WHAMO! 9 months pregnant?!

She shouldn't be here to begin with. And the fact is, some cross the BORDER 9 months pregnant.

Answer 8

If your ILLEGAL you shouldn't have been here in the first place. THUS making your question Irrelevant. Its actually VERY simply DON'T COME HERE ILLEGALLY and you'll NEVER get stuck here wondering what to do at 9 months.

Answer 9

I am not even sure she could be deported at that point. A lot of pregnant women cross just so their children can become US citizens! Of course, she would stay.

Answer 10

The fact is that all illegal aliens want to be in the U.S, otherwise they would be called tourists, therefore; i would be incline to think that she would stay. Good for her and sorry for all of us who will now have to support her and her baby until whenever!