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timosman
12-27-2017, 02:46 AM
http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2017/12/26/cbo-at-least-4-5m-anchor-babies-in-u-s/


by JOHN BINDER 26 Dec 2017

There are an estimated 4.5 million United States-born children who were given birthright citizenship despite at least one of their parents being an illegal alien.
These children are commonly known as “anchor babies,” as they are able to eventually bring an unlimited number of foreign relatives to the U.S. through the process known as “chain migration.”

A new Congressional Budget Office (CBO) report reveals the extent to which the illegal alien population in the U.S. has had children that are given automatic citizenship simply for being born within the borders of the country.

According to the CBO, there are 4.5 million anchor babies in the U.S. under the age of 18-years-old. This estimate does not include the potentially millions of anchor babies who are older than 18-years-old.

Center for Immigration Studies (CIS) Director of Policy Jessica Vaughan told Breitbart News that there are more anchor babies than estimated because the CBO data does not include the U.S.-born children who have departed the country when their parents were deported. Vaughan said these anchor babies can still eventually return to the U.S. as citizens and sponsor foreign relatives through chain migration.

Should President Trump’s administration not enact major reforms to end illegal immigration — including constructing a border wall and ending birthright citizenship — the CBO estimates that at least another 600,000 anchor babies will be born to illegal alien parents in the next 10 years.

Rep. Steve King (R-IA) filed legislation at the beginning of 2017 to permanently end birthright citizenship, putting the U.S. on par with other Western nations, but the bill has not moved in the Subcommittee on Immigration and Border Security.

The birthright citizenship debate was not always partisan as it currently is with establishment Republicans and Democrats supporting anchor babies.

Former Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) once opposed birthright citizenship, saying in 1993 that “no sane country” would reward illegal aliens with U.S. citizenship for their children.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=75a9Wa6KL7k

As Breitbart News reported, the U.S. is nearly alone in granting citizenship to illegal aliens’ children. For example, the U.S. and Canada are the two only developed nations with birthright citizenship. On the other hand, countries such as France, the United Kingdom, Ireland, New Zealand, Australia, Italy, and Germany all have either outlawed birthright citizenship or never had such a policy to begin with.

Proponents of birthright citizenship often claim the 14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution requires the policy. The Supreme Court, however, has never explicitly ruled that the children of illegal aliens must be granted automatic citizenship and many legal scholars dispute the idea.

Zippyjuan
12-27-2017, 05:56 PM
http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2016/10/26/number-of-babies-born-to-unauthorized-immigrants-in-u-s-continues-to-decline/


Number of babies born to unauthorized immigrants in U.S. continues to decline


About 275,000 babies were born to unauthorized-immigrant parents in 2014, or about 7% of the 4 million births in the U.S. that year, according to Pew Research Center estimates based on government data. This represented a decline from 330,000 in 2009, at the end of the Great Recession.

Births to unauthorized immigrants accounted for about one-in-three births (32%) to foreign-born mothers in the U.S. in 2014, according to the estimates.

The decrease in births to unauthorized immigrants from 2009 to 2014 contrasts with the trend for the U.S. unauthorized immigrant population overall, which has stabilized. The number of births and the total population both generally rose through the 1990s and 2000s, peaked in 2006 (births) or 2007 (population), and then declined as the recession of 2007-2009 lingered.

http://assets.pewresearch.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/10/24172622/FT_16.10.10_BirthsToUnauthorizedImmigrants2.png

devil21
12-27-2017, 06:28 PM
Here's a fun mental exercise in how the system works. How are anchor babies and Federal Reserve QE connected?

RonZeplin
12-27-2017, 06:51 PM
Once the Anchor Babies reach adulthood, Chain Migration kicks in and the relatives start arriving.

http://media.breitbart.com/media/2017/11/Number-2.jpg

http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2017/11/30/dhs-more-than-9m-foreign-relatives-of-immigrants-admitted-to-u-s-in-last-decade/

Superfluous Man
12-27-2017, 07:57 PM
What's sad is that Breitbart expects its readers to think that headline is a bad thing.

RonZeplin
12-27-2017, 08:46 PM
What's sad is that Breitbart expects its readers to think that headline is a bad thing.

What's really sad is that Ron Paul's opinion has been forgotten so soon.


http://www.ontheissues.org/TX/Ron_Paul_Immigration.htm

Amend Constitution to remove aliens’ birthright citizenship

Q: You say you’re a strict constructionist of the Constitution, and yet you want to amend the Constitution to say that children born here should not automatically be US citizens.

A: Well, amending the Constitution is constitutional. What’s the contradiction there?

Q: So in the Constitution as written, you want to amend?

A: Well, that’s constitutional, to do it. Besides, it was the 14th Amendment. It wasn’t in the original Constitution. And there’s confusion on interpretation. In the early years, it was never interpreted that way, and it’s still confusing because individuals are supposed to have birthright citizenship if they’re under the jurisdiction of the government. And somebody who illegally comes in this country as a drug dealer, is he under the jurisdiction and their children deserve citizenship? I think it’s awfully, awfully confusing, and, matter of fact, I have a bill to change that as well as a Constitutional amendment to clarify it.

Source: Meet the Press: 2007 “Meet the Candidates” series (http://www.ontheissues.org/2007_Meet_the_Press.htm) , Dec 23, 2007

Superfluous Man
12-27-2017, 09:20 PM
What's really sad is that Ron Paul's opinion has been forgotten so soon.

If you're inferring from my comment that I disagree with him about that, you're wrong.

I agree with him that we should end birthright citizenship.

I also agree with him that we should allow people to cross the border freely without even demanding that they show passports, making the whole issue moot.

timosman
12-28-2017, 12:45 AM
If you're inferring from my comment that I disagree with him about that, you're wrong.

I agree with him that we should end birthright citizenship.

I also agree with him that we should allow people to cross the border freely without even demanding that they show passports, making the whole issue moot.

You should tell us how it does not affect you.

Brian4Liberty
12-28-2017, 12:31 PM
"Totally free immigration? I've never taken that position. I believe in national sovereignty." - Ron Paul