What's an anchored baby? (this question was removed and will be asked again, Immigration Issue)?

Question

Some people have major issues with me asking this kind of question. You can tell they're feisty and that won't stop me, for one Im not insulting anyone.

Answer 1

The problem with this "anchor baby" issue that keeps coming up is that it is a chimera: it does not exist.

There is NO provision under the immigration law or any other law that allows non-American adults, legal or illegal, to remain in the US just because they have borne an American citizen child. There are no asylum or other rules that allow such parents to remain in the US. In fact, there are many thousands of US citizen children living overseas, who were born in the US but their parents had no right to stay there and left when their business, whatever it was, was over.

The child cannot even petition for the parents until he or she turns 21, and then will have to be domiciled in the US, not just the holder of a US passport.

Answer 2

Anchore Babies are NOT LEGAL, that is waht the ACLU wants you to believe. They are subject to the Country that their parents are Subject to. The 14th amendment is there to protect Native Americans.
Its time we take our country Back!
We need a day that we as Americans can show the ones in Washington and the Businesses that we want Illegals out of our country. A day that we stay home from work and display our dismay in the streets in a peaceful manner that we do not want Amnesty for People who break our laws. We should also on this day not do business with anyone who hires these people.
I am sick to death to see what has happened to this country.
I have traveled all over the country and can tell you our Government has fail to do what they are bound by oath to do.
More and more places of business are putting up Bi-lingual signs to cater to the Spanish Speaking people in our country ( Lowes is the latest ) They cant say that they are only trying to serve their customers, if they were trying to do that then they would put all Languages on their signs.
I suggest that we as True AMERICANS select a day and Spread the word about a day without an American.
NO AMNESTY, ALL THE ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS IN OUR COUNTRY MUST LEAVE, INCLUDING THEIR ANCHORE BABIES. IF THEY WANT TO COME BACK AND WORK, DO IT THE RIGHT WAY.
Companies that hire them be fined

Answer 3

What reason did they give for removing it? Its a reasonable question. An anchor baby is a baby who is born in a country that their parents are not citizens in, usually so the parents can stay in that country. The child is a citizen, so the parents think that gives them a reason to stay.

Answer 4

An anchor baby is one that is born to illegal parents here in the US. The child is a legal citizen and the parents are allowed to stay here to care for the child or can use it's citizenship to apply for government assistance.

Answer 5

An anchor baby is one of the tricks that the illegal aliens used to get amnesty from the US government. Is a dirty trick that they are using and is shameful. They are denigrating our American citizenship and turning it into a business and that,, we the American people will not permit.

Answer 6

'Anchor baby' is a reference to the 14th amendment of the Constitution, which is used to iniatiate 'chain migration' AKA having a kid as a way to systematically exploit US immigration law and bring 500 of your 'relatives' to the USA. Anchor, chain, get it? LOL

Anyway, the US Supreme Court's going to have to burn some midnight oil on that issue...

Answer 7

it means a baby that was born out of an illegal in this country like me

Answer 8

Get this I asked a question in veggie and vegan section. I asked "what did you eat today?" and it was removed. Community guideline violation???? What ever. I don't get it I don't see anything wrong with the question you just asked.

Answer 9

The 14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution reads in part:

"All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and the State wherein they reside."

Babies born to illegal alien mothers within U.S. borders are called anchor babies because under the 1965 immigration Act, they act as an anchor that pulls the illegal alien mother and eventually a host of other relatives into permanent U.S. residency. (Jackpot babies is another term).

The 14th Amendment was ratified in 1868 to protect the rights of native-born Black Americans, whose rights were being denied as recently-freed slaves. In 1866, Senator Jacob Howard clearly spelled out the intent of the 14th Amendment by writing:

"Every person born within the limits of the United States, and subject to their jurisdiction, is by virtue of natural law and national law a citizen of the United States. This will not, of course, include persons born in the United States who are foreigners, aliens, who belong to the families of ambassadors or foreign ministers accredited to the Government of the United States, but will include every other class of persons. It settles the great question of citizenship and removes all doubt as to what persons are or are not citizens of the United States. This has long been a great desideratum in the jurisprudence and legislation of this country."

The original intent of the 14th Amendment was clearly not to facilitate illegal aliens defying U.S. law at taxpayer expense. Current estimates indicate there may be over 300,000 anchor babies born each year in the U.S., thus causing illegal alien mothers to add more to the U.S. population each year than immigration from all sources in an average year before 1965.

The correct interpretation of the 14th Amendment is that an illegal alien mother is subject to the jurisdiction of her native country, as is her baby.

Over a century ago, the Supreme Court correctly confirmed this restricted interpretation of citizenship in the so-called 'Slaughter-House cases' [83 US 36 (1873)] and in [112 US 94 (1884)]. In Elk v.Wilkins, the phrase 'subject to its jurisdiction' excluded from its operation 'children of ministers, consuls, and citizens of foreign states born within the United States.' In Elk, the American Indian claimant was considered not an American citizen because the law required him to be 'not merely subject in some respect or degree to the jurisdiction of the United States, but completely subject to their political jurisdiction and owing them direct and immediate allegiance.'

Congress subsequently passed a special act to grant full citizenship to American Indians, who were not citizens even through they were born within the borders of the United States. The Citizens Act of 1924, codified in 8USCSß1401, provides that:

The following shall be nationals and citizens of the United States at birth:
(a) a person born in the United States and subject to the jurisdiction thereof;
(b) a person born in the United States to a member of an Indian, Eskimo, Aleutian, or other aboriginal tribe.

American citizens must be wary of elected politicians voting to illegally extend our generous social benefits to illegal aliens and other criminals.

Answer 10

Hmm let me guess who made this word up. Either Lou Dobbs, Bill O'Reilley, or Rush Limbaugh. It sounds so racist. These kids are Americans period!