What do you think 400,000 babies are born in the United States to mothers who are illegal immigrants.?

Question

Each year, an estimated 400,000 babies are born in the United States to mothers who are illegal immigrants. More than 25 percent of those babies are born in California.

Although Congress has never passed a law saying so, no president has ever ordered it, and no court has ever ruled on the issue, each of these babies automatically becomes a U.S. citizen when it takes its first breath.

That could change if legislation that Rep. Dan Lungren, R-Gold River, joined in sponsoring in April becomes law.

Lungren, who served as California's attorney general from 1990 to 1998 and worked on the last successful push for an immigration overhaul when he represented Long Beach in the Congress in the 1980s, said he is trying to stimulate a debate on what he believes is a key factor drawing immigrants illegally across the U.S.-Mexico border.

Critics have another word for it.

"Xenophobia," said Crystal Williams, deputy director of the American Immigration Lawyers Association. "They are afraid of having more Hispanic citizens."

Contributing to the evolution of U.S. policy is the 14th Amendment to the Constitution. Ratified in 1868, after the Civil War, it was intended to ensure that children of freed slaves were extended U.S. citizenship. The amendment states simply that anyone born in the United States and "subject to the jurisdiction thereof," is a citizen.

U.S. policy has come to recognize "birthright citizenship" in just about every vital transaction.

http://www.sacbee.com/111/story/370050.html

Answer 1

Maybe a law should be introduce that illegals who have a child here, are not granted US citizenship to the child but the home country of the mother instead; The birth rate would dramatically drop this was the case. As the mother did NOT have the right to be here in the first place.

Once the child has reached adult hood they can apply to change their status and become a US citizen

We do not need more illegals having kids here, and then leaving them here, like that lady did recently, (I can not remember her name), saying that she was forced to do that by the US.

However having a child in the US today does NOT give you the right to US citizenship or the Green card, however many illegals fail to understand or grasp this fact.

Answer 2

Tancredo, Ron Paul, and Hunter have the most conservative voting records on immigration.
http://www.betterimmigration.com/candidates/2006/prez08_gop2.html
http://www.betterimmigration.com/candidates/2006/prez08_gop3.html
http://www.betterimmigration.com/candidates/2006/prez08_gop1.html

Of these three, Ron Paul has the best chance of winning the Primary election.
Paul's campaign has almost 4 times as much money to spend as Tancredo.
http://projects.washingtonpost.com/2008-presidential-candidates/finance/candidates/ron-paul/
http://projects.washingtonpost.com/2008-presidential-candidates/finance/candidates/tom-tancredo/

This is his six point plan:
Physically secure our borders and coastlines. We must do whatever it takes to control entry into our country before we undertake complicated immigration reform proposals.
Enforce visa rules. Immigration officials must track visa holders and deport anyone who overstays their visa or otherwise violates U.S. law. This is especially important when we recall that a number of 9/11 terrorists had expired visas.
No amnesty. Estimates suggest that 10 to 20 million people are in our country illegally. That’s a lot of people to reward for breaking our laws.
No welfare for illegal aliens. Americans have welcomed immigrants who seek opportunity, work hard, and play by the rules. But taxpayers should not pay for illegal immigrants who use hospitals, clinics, schools, roads, and social services.
End birthright citizenship. As long as illegal immigrants know their children born here will be citizens, the incentive to enter the U.S. illegally will remain strong.
Pass true immigration reform. The current system is incoherent and unfair. But current reform proposals would allow up to 60 million more immigrants into our country, according to the Heritage Foundation. This is insanity. Legal immigrants from all countries should face the same rules and waiting periods.
http://ronpaul2008.com/issues/border-security-and-immigration-reform/

The NAFTA Superhighway might be another significant threat to American borders.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MBmFrYWPoG8
http://www.lewrockwell.com/paul/paul349.html

Answer 3

Well for something, Hoodrich may be very fallacious along with his $three an hour analogy. It is the Right Wing Americans that appoint the mammoth majorities of the illegals extraterrestrial beings, individuals who possess the giant carrier subject of the general public and a mammoth majority of the factories. Big trade is a republican factor, no a leftest perfect. I reside close the Chicago-land subject, and the factories in my subject, are owned by way of republicans and appoint plenty of illegals. Man do not positioned that on our backs. Now I believe that you simply should not be deemed an American citizen on account that you have been born right here. If your mum or dad(s) are right here illegally, then you're born on this nation illegally. Pretty so much the identical factor that we could regarded a real Bastard who's a little one born out of wedlock, more often than not illegally born and not using a ethical atmosphere. That the definition of Bastard as I have identified it to be. I think that the youngsters of illegals, will have to be deemed Bastard Citizens and don't have any proper to accumulate any advantages. What subsequent, a girl will get pregnant whilst illegally in America, remains for a couple of months, then is stuck and deported, but if the youngster is born she claims he an American on account that he was once conceived whilst she was once in America? Why Not, proper? Please, I recognise that virtually all have come from someplace else, however I am 8th iteration on this nation, and we paid our dues and a few of mine have given their lives for this nation. I have paid into this nation by way of taxes seeing that I had been 12 years ancient which was once over 40 or so years in the past. I believe that the youngsters in conjunction with their mom and dad will have to be deported. If I rob a financial institution, will have to my youngsters get to preserve the money and advantage by way of my being a burden to others? I have many pal who went by way of the correct channels to come back and legally keep right here, fitting U.S. residents and they do not approve one little bit of whats happening. Sorry, I'm at the left in the case of politics, however this I have to step to the proper. It's incorrect all of the manner round. I certain desire anyone could furnish me with a first-class honor and bathe me with computerized advantages and financial aid with out me doing a factor, and all whilst unlawful acts being in play. They must earn it within the identical system as all folks Legal U.S. Citizens needed to, by way of both delivery of authorized and lawful U.S. Citizens, or making use of for citizenship and being granted such. I am steeping off the cleaning soap field for now.

Answer 4

Without the 14th Amendment, citizenship, and thus voting rights, could be denied, almost arbitrarily, to whole crossections of the population. While 'anchor babies' may seem offensive (actually, it's the parents who use thier children as leveragle to get away with breaking the law who should offend you), do you really want a permanent underclass of right-less non-citizens to be established in America?

Mojada: the Irish, in thier day, faced worse discrimination than you could ever imagine. They assimilated, and are now treated just like any other Americans - but for 1 day a year when thier heritage is particularly celebrated.

Answer 5

For the Irish, one terrible event, the potato famine of the second half of the 1840s, has dominated the memory of emigration, but there was substantial Irish immigration both before and after the famine. The root causes of Irish migration were mass poverty, underdevelopment, and a burgeoning population. In the 1830sIrish had immigrated to the United States, and large numbers went to Canada and across the Irish Sea to England. Those Irish and their predecessors came largely as single men, and Irish labor was vital to much of the American "internal improvements" of the era. Some three thousand Irishmen had done most of the digging for the Erie Canal before 1820 and several thousand dug the New Canal in New Orleans in the 1830s. Relatively few Irish settled in rural America, and the vast majority became residents of east coast cities between Boston and Baltimore, although there were large groups of Irish in such western cities as Cincinnati, Chicago, and San Francisco. They often filled the worst neighborhoods, such as the infamous Five Points in New York City. I WONDER IF THIS IRISH IMMIGRANTS WOULD HAVE LIKED TO HAVE BEEN TREATED THE SAME WAY YOU ALL ARE TREATING THESE ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS?????

B.Kevorkian: I KNOW THEY WERE MAINLY MISTREATED BECAUSE OR THEY WERE CATHOLICS THE TRUTH IS THAT HUMAN RACE IS DUMB... AND PEOPLE JUST DON'T LIKE TO GET ALONG...

Answer 6

I think the illegal alien issue is out of control on more than one front. This is just another reason we HAVE to get control. If for no other reason but for the welfare of these children. Being born into an environment where they are raised among those involved in an illegal subculture just isn't fair. They need to be back in their own country where their children aren't put into untenable positions.

Illegal parents aren't suitable parents. It's unfortunate, but true.

Answer 7

Proves to me they need to zip up that anchor baby loophole. Otherwise.....why even bother with immigration at all? Most of these people wouldn't have qualified for legal immigration and to then undermine that with "unless you drop a kid"?

Answer 8

I think the AILA needs to go! Isn't it funny that we get called names for enforcing our laws but mexico always gets a free pass.

Answer 9

Christian Williams told it right and clear, its just xenophobia and racism, They are afraid of hispanics, the promoters of this change in law are members of KKK but anyway without illeal immigrants hispanics will increase because white americans dont want have babies(they prefer they careers). LOL.

Answer 10

the first poster said- "Illegal parents aren't suitable parents." like she knows! i know illegal parents and they are better parents than the drugged up American hi*k parents that some kids have.