What America should do with the parents of American Citizens if they are illegal immigrants?

Question

Many illegal inmigrants have children born in this country, What America should do with them if they are working and paying taxes?

Answer 1

That gets into 'anchor baby', the process whereby people from other countries can come to the US, have a kid, get a green card, etc. In principle, it's a good practice, but the sheer VOLUME of people that are doing this is such that it's kind of questionable whether there shouldn't be a change to it. For details, consult the 14th amendment to the Constitution.

Immigration is ok, but illegal immigration is a systematic breaking of the law, and the impact on existing cities and communities is something that needs to be critically looked at. I believe that immigration laws need to be observed, upheld, and enforced, as they were initially written for good reasons.

America's already pretty multi-ethnic, and it's important to look at that aspect of things, too, to ensure that enforcement is color-blind, so to speak...but, a million people a year pouring over the border is going to basically mean one thing, that the national debt is going to climb again, next year, and the year after that, and the year after that, and so forth...that is, unless people continue to basically demand of their representation that some changes be implemented to prevent a large-scale influx of people from around the world who basically seem to feel its' their god-given right to enter and stay in our country at will. Overcrowding is already an issue in many places, and the more people that try to come piling into some of our cities will result in degradation of the infrastructure, probably school closures, and red ink as far as the eye can see, ultimately unsustainable. Other countries should not effectively be able to establish our growth rate to fit their needs, hence the need for immigration enforcement and deporting people. Since Mexico's still our chief offender on illegal immigration, going so far as to publish a comic book tutoring people on how to cross 'la linea' illegally, and basically lobbying nonstop to get more of their citizens imported into our country, well, issue needs to be taken with their country on that. I'm for discontinuing the 'green card for the parents and relatives' stuff, too, because it amounts to the Big Payoff, the baby is getting used as a tool, hence the title 'anchor baby'. That's the wrong reason to have a kid, in my view, to use it as a tool to establish citizenship in the country. Maybe what we need is the american wake-up call, where people open their eyes and realize that this isn't 1909 anymore, and that tolerance of past practices is getting to be out-of-place now that there's 3 times as many people in our country. Read the statistics for yourself, there is such a thing as 'runaway growth', and while we're not in crisis because of it YET, if you stop and do the math you can see that it'll have the potential to turn ugly, and then EVERYBODY's 'american dream' gets cancelled. The great depression isn't that far back in history terms, and it was pretty devastating. More competition for jobs=less jobs available, and less wages paid for those jobs.

Read more, and maybe start figuring out how to help countries like Mexico fix their problems independently. There's 6.6 billion people in the world, they can't all live in america...that by the way, is 5 billion more than there were 100 years ago also. Growth is one of those funny things, countries like India and China are hard up against that issue today, right now, with some serious problems because of it. So, to my mind at least, it's time to have a reduction in the number of people coming to our country every year, and a re-work of our immigration system, and better enforcement. Other countries need to work a lot harder on solving their own problems...

Answer 2

We can't pass laws that require something of a different country, such as that country's citizenship rules. We can only pass and enforce laws that effect our citizens or people visiting our country, whether they are here legally or not. I'm pretty sure that anchor babies are not citizens of the US if their parents are not citizens. I know that is not the common understanding at this time but I think it is the intent of the Constitution and when it is finally tested they will not be citizens. If for example an American soldier and his wife are stationed in a foreign country and they have a baby (not born on base, which IS American soil) there the baby is an American. It is NOT a (whatever country) citizen. Babies who are born while their parents are traveling are citizens of the parent's country. There is no reason to reward illegal invaders of our country with citizenship for their children. That is not the law and that is not the custom. It is merely a contention by illegals that their little anchors are Americans thus spreading Americanism to the whole family.

Answer 3

They should be deported. And their underage children sent with them, or become wards of the state. If a citizen commits a crime....they try and find relatives. If not, they are wards of the state. There's no "special favors" because they are parents. These guys are here illegally Why should they receive "special consideration" beyond what our own citizens don't have? Do you think a citizen that got busted gets to be let loose to deal with family matters? Those children are citizens too. Are their "rights" any less important than that of an illegal? They don't care when a guy gets busted as to whether or not he has a family dependant on him. They don't care if a citizen is prostituting herself and has 3 kids at home waiting for mommy. Why is this any different? Children are minors and so far are tied to their parents. Not parents to children. The ADULT makes decisions that effect the minor. Not the MINOR dictating what happens to the adult. Please...if birthing a child made everyone exempt from adult decisions....there'd be 10000000X's more children. Our jails would be virtually empty. If I paid someone to stuff my kid in the glove compartment of a car and she was driven across a state border to see me.......I'd be charged with child endagerment and neglect, if not abuse, and my kid would be state custody and I'd be in jail. I'd have to prove beyond a shadow of a doubt and wait and proove for years that I deserved to have them back AND support them. These guys get NOTHING. No....the kids go with the parents......there's no free ride and exemption of obeying the law. Once they turn 18......fine. Then I don't care if papa raised 12 kids or any other darn sob story. Break the law.....pay the price.
Taxes aren't the only reason. When a woman citizen who is married to a citizen male....and allows her children to see "daddy" be drunk and beat up on her....the parents are jailed and the kids go to foster care.
No excuses. No exceptions. Neglect, abuse, un-fit parents. Why are these guys any different? Be a white woman with 2 kids and tell welfare you're living with the daddy and uncle Bob and Uncle Jim and Cousin Billy-Bob and Jim-Bob and Lenny-Jean and their girlfriens and friends and they all have DUI's and abuse and deal drugs while you're out prostituting yourself and see how far you get. Just wanting a "better life" or "providing for your family" is not an excuse.

Hey La Raza and "kill the gringo" people.......what "compassion" are you going to extend to the elderly or our new "white" born infants? Is years of hard work or "innocent" children going to be enough to soften your hearts?

Answer 4

It is real simple. The offspring of an illegal alien is NOT a citizen. The 14th amendment to the Constitution does NOT grant automatic citizenship to the offspring of illegal immigrants.

The author of the citizenship clause of the 14th amendment made it abundantly clear that the simple accident of birth was not sufficient to justify citizenship.

So what should America do? Deport them along with the parents and bill the "homeland" for their care and feeding.

Answer 5

If and when the parents are aprehended for the criminals they are, the parents should be shipped back to wherever they came from. Obviously, the child should go with them. It's the parents call on the child. If the child stays here, then someone else will have to care for the child. Hopefully not the American taxpayer.

Answer 6

The practice you refer to is called anchor baby.

This practice must be ended immediately. The courts wrongly interpreted the 14th Amendment. This was written so slaves' children could not be denied citizenship. It is wrong that an illegal commits a crime (being here illegally) and their child profits from it.

Illegals do not pay all taxes. They are criminals by just being here. We need to crack down on the employers. No jobs, they leave.

You make excuses for them. I reject that.

Answer 7

Kick them out, invite the children back when they turn 18. Sounds stupid, but so is the question. We spend $400 billion in Iraq only to have a million people wade across a shallow river and try to make a life here in the US. If I can smuggle a million people over, why wouldn't I be able to smuggle a few hundred pounds of Cocaine or even several "dirty bombs?"

Answer 8

If the illegal parents are paying taxes, it means that they are either documented, or have stolen someones identity.

Answer 9

Deport their butts and never allow them to come back. Means dont ever allow the kid to sponcer the parents later.

Answer 10

Deport both the parents AND the ANCHOR baby they popped out.

The parents are defacto criminals and everything they did is based on falsehood and breaking existing law.
THEY ARE NON-CITIZENS. REVOKE the CITIZENSHIP of ANCHOR BABIES. NO FREE RIDES