Yeah my parents are undocumented. But I'm a citizen. I thank my parents for that. They wouldn't have been applicable to apply for citizenship to the U.S anyhow (Look it up). Who invented the concept of illegal immigration anyhow. It used to be that all you needed was a will to work in this "Great Country".
All of a sudden I see on the news racist (yes you ARE racist) talking about deportation. Deport immigrants whose only crime is to want to work. The founding fathers of America must be turning in their graves.
Yes I am a citizen of the U.S and I'm not going anywhere. Neither are my parents. YOU people who think that the U.S is actually going to pass a law deporting millions of hard workers and their children are living in the past. I'm getting an education. And yes I did receive a scholarship. So WHAT I'm a citizen, I had a good G.P.A. I studied hard. I deserved it. Just because I'm a child of undocumented workers I don't deserve it? What gives you the right to label us?
2006-09-20 07:35:23 · 24 answers · asked by carey sanders 1 in Politics & Government ➔ Immigration
I do not believe in the 'anchor baby' philosophy and am working hard to have that law recognized on the basis for which it was written.
Your parents, inspite of all the good you may feel for them (and rightly so as they are your parents) are still
Illegals.
Period.
Lawbreakers.
If they haven't fixed that situation they are libel for deportation without sympathy. If you wish to go with them...I'm sure your parents legal country would recognize you as a citizen. If it is mexico, then you already have dual citizenship...according to the laws of mexico.
We have the right to label people who break our laws.
Your parents are not undocumented workers.
They are illegals.
2006-09-20 07:48:51 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 6⤊ 1⤋
Honey i hate to break it to you...but if we let everyone in this country who wanted to "work hard", where would we be? We would be an overpopulated, third world country with a lot of uneducated people, who are not paying taxes, and sucking the social assistance programs.
The race card is always played...blacks still play it as well, I do not doubt that racism still goes on, i know it does. My point is the fact that wanted to deport someone is not racist. We are America and we have laws, and being in this country ILLEGAL is a crime. Your parents are criminals, sorry to break it to you. They may be good hard working people, but being here illegally is a crime.
You are a citizen, yes, no matter how that might have happened, you are...and you deserve everything that a citizen deserves...but your parents dont...sorry to say that.
by 2040 it is predicted that almost 80% of texas will be Hispanic....im sorry but those numbers are out of control.
Something will have to be done, but right now looks like OUR government is not on our side....Moreover, with all the terrorism going on we have got to protect our borders, you are an American, you should be wanting this too....
2006-09-20 10:33:27 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
I don't know your situation specifically, but a lot of illegal immigrants have their babies in the US specifically because they think it will allow all of them to stay here. Yes, the child is a legal citizen, but some people may resent the child for being born here to illegal parents who are just trying to get over.
In the past, there were not laws about immigration because the country was still young and developing. I like to think if our founding fathers saw the situation the US is in now, then they would recognize the need for immigration laws. Allowing anyone who wants to come to the US to come here without any restrictions would result in chaos.
Also, I'm not talking about your family specifically, or every illegal immigrant, but saying their only crime is to want to work is ridiculous. There are many many crimes committed by illegal immigrants.
2006-09-20 07:50:28 · answer #3 · answered by Niecy 6 · 3⤊ 0⤋
The problem is that this (Fourteenth Amendment)
has been misinterpreted in recent years
(Since The Reagan Amnesty)
to mean simply that anyone born in the U.S,
under any circumstances,
is an American citizen.
This is neither the original intent of the law
nor the way it was interpreted by the courts
in subsequent decades.
Some Americans speak of birthright citizenship
as if it were an immutable law of nature.
It is not,
and most other nations do not, in fact, recognize it.
It is only a bad habit
that could be broken with a simple Executive Order.
According to estimates,
some 300,000 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,
and the full panoply of welfare benefits is available to her,
as is affirmative action if she is a member of a racial minority.
"The situation we have today is absurd,"
alleges Craig Nelsen,
director of Friends of Immigration Law Enforcement,
a group of attorneys and immigration experts
that is trying to do something about the problem.
"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 allegiance"
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.
Before You And All Other ILLEGAL ANCHOR BABIES
Decide To Use The 14th Amendment As A Platform
You Better Research The Law Better
Congress May Decide To ENFORCE The LAW
And You Will Be Deported
Along With Your ILLEGAL ALIEN Parents
If I Were An ILLEGAL ANCHOR BABY
I Would Not Be So Proud Of It, As You Seem To Be
2006-09-20 10:09:18 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 1⤋
Who pissed in your Cheerio's this morning??? Times change and now there ARE laws regulating immigration to this country. People in England are getting sick of all their immigrants too, you just don't here about it on the news over here. Can you really blame the citizens of a nation who are sick and tired of illegal immigrants sneaking in here and having anchor babies so it's harder to deport them? Since you were born here, you ARE a citizen. Congrats! And you're getting an education! What do you really have to complain about? If you're so heated about people being against ILLEGAL immigration, and if people are discriminating against you for being a U.S. Citizen born of illegal immigrants, then blame your own parents for putting you in that position. They are the ones who are here illegally. And you don't say why they aren't applicable to become citizens. Are they criminals? Stop complaining about it and be glad you don't have to go through the immigration process to become a naturalized citizen. It's a long, drawn-out process. I used to work in an immigration office.
2006-09-20 07:45:54 · answer #5 · answered by j.f. 4 · 4⤊ 0⤋
The law gives me the right to label you. Your parents broke our laws. (1986 Immigration Act for one) Tell me, why shouldn't a Country have the right to limit those they want in? Your Country (mexico) sure has one hell of a RACIST policy on immigration. You are incorrect, this Country never had a law or policy that stated all you "need to want was work". And those that came here more than likely came by way of Ellis Island, not the Rio Grande......and not illegally. Why do you all refuse to use that word with immigrant, as in ILLEGAL IMMIGRANT??
You're also mistaken about the ONLY crime they committed was "work", once again, they broke our laws and one of the U.N. laws.
But as you are just as ignorant as any other illegal about this Country what can I expect, shooting off your mouth without ANY facts.
You'll make a fine democrat, all mouth NO FACTS!!!
2006-09-20 07:58:31 · answer #6 · answered by usaf.primebeef 6 · 5⤊ 2⤋
UUHHHH...the law. DUH!
So pretty much you can do and say whatever you want because you are brown. Is that it? It doesn't matter whether you obey the law, respect the country, it's laws, it's citizens, etc. because you are brown and anyone who disagrees with you is a white racist? And you wonder why we don't like you.
You put great country in quotes, meaning you don't think so. If the lable, as you put it, didn't apply to you, you wouldn't take offense. Feeling guilty? Take part in any rallys lately? Raise a Mexican flag or attack a blond?
Maybe not, but you definitely think whites and native born American citizens are less than you and less deserving than you and don't work as hard as you.
You are the racist, not the variety of Americans who disagree with your attitude and tactics.
2006-09-20 07:48:09 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 6⤊ 1⤋
Just keep working hard and live out your American dream. Get over it and stop calling people racists. That is the most hackneyed, overused term these days. "Racism!" Oh, no! People are afraid of change, and the fact is that this country is changing at a fast rate, partially because of the hordes of illegal immigrants entering and remaining in this country every day. When the status quo is changed and/or threatened, people react. It is human nature not to want to change. So just live your life and do your best and stop selling out by yelling "racism" every chance you get. Look at the bigger picture and think before you speak. That is the hallmark of a truly educated person.
2006-09-20 07:40:45 · answer #8 · answered by nido_tr3s 5 · 3⤊ 2⤋
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2016-10-17 08:25:26 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
yes you deserve it. your legal, but your parent's are not. shame. we american's pay every day of are live's, while undocumented, illegals are here. if they would stop coming and sponging off are system then alot more American kid's will get the benefit's of these illegal, undocumented kid's are getting. it make's me sick to hear you people whining and paging others with label's. there illegal. my ancestor's payed to come to this land. and were still paying to be here. by saying some one is illegal is not racist. and i'm happy ytou are educated. but in my book if the parent's are not legal, then the offspring's should not be. so you illegal's need to stop trying to change some one elses country and take care of you'r own. and futher more, you are what some would consider an anchore baby.
2006-09-20 07:58:33 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 1⤋