Is it really?
Not when that clown is Governor of Florida.
Cite?
Poe’s.
The mother breaks the law in order to confer citizenship on her newborn. And that then gives her a contact to become a legal immigrant herself.
There is something fundamentally wrong with being able to commit an illegal act and have that benefit you.
Also, the argument that ALL people born here, even if illegal, if it done by conquest goes to absurdity when you consider other situations. What if, say, China launched a surprise invasion and conquered California? Is it your position that they can airdrop millions of women into California to give birth and then, by the Constitution, we can’t ever get rid of the next generation of Chinese who are here to complete the conquest?
Yes, I understand that it is a far-fetched example, but I can’t get past the illegality of what these mothers are doing. In any other contract situation, which is sort of what a Constitution is, you can’t get benefits by acting in bad faith and committing criminal acts.
First, it is wrong to presume every child born here to a legal is born here “in order to confer citizenship on [the] newborn.” People who live in a place for a while have kids. It’s part of life. And if those kids are born here, well, why wouldn’t they be citizens?
And moreover, hasn’t it been pretty repeatedly shown that having a child here does not get you legal status? I was udner the impression people were regularly deported despite having children who were citizens.
The Wong Kim Ark ruling specifically excludes people not subject to the jurisdiction of the United States, which by any rational definition would include hostile invaders.
Does it really give her a break? It may have in the past but i have heard lots of stories of mother and son being sent back.
Parents of US citizen children are somewhat less likely to be deported by immigration judges. There’s no rule that prevents them (and their children) from being deported, however.
Any children born here can’t be deported, but the idea that having a child here gives undocumented immigrants any kind of legal resident status is talk radio mythology.
Incidentally, there are unntold millions of illegal residents already here who aren’t being deported even without any natural born children, so trying to repeal citizenship for those children would do absolutely nothing to decrease the population of illegal immigrants. It’s just petty, vicious, pointless vindictiveness against babies who are the wrong color.
Incidentally, do you know who else was an anchor baby? Jesus. His parents travelled down from Galilee, which was a tetrarchy under the control of Herod Antipas, down into the Roman controlled province of Judea to have their baby. I bet they wre just trying to reap all those Roman welfare benefits.
Children born here can’t be deported, but if both parents get deported it’s essentially the same thing. What are they going to do, leave the baby?
It isn’t essentially the same thing. Being deported impacts your future possibilities of legally returning to the U.S. Leaving with your parents, who have been deported, does not.
It’s the same thing as far as the parents are concerned, I mean.
Yes. The baby is entitled to become a ward of the state, if nothing else.
They were part of the US; they just weren’t “subject to the jurisdiction” of the US, which is why I think the 14th amendment is worded the way it is.
Rape. Putting your whole body in a woman’s vagina is really crossing the line.
Remember that in Wong Van Ark, his parents were here legally. My understanding is that the decision could be read to apply to anchor babies and so it has been assumed to be so. I suspect King’s strategy may be to exclude anchor babies as not being eligible under the 14th Amendment and force SCOTUS to definitively rule that the 14th Amendment does apply to children born to illegal immigrants. I don’t think that he anticipates it working, but in this anti-illegal immigration culture it is sure to make SCOTUS (and through them Obama) unpopular.
No! That’s what got us into the anchor baby situation to begin with!
On the serious side: Congressman King is a piece of shit.