Thread: 400,000 CHILDREN BORN TO ILLEGAL ALIENS IN U.S. ANNUALLY, ONE IN 10 BIRTHS

EXPERT: UP TO 400K CHILDREN BORN TO ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS IN U.S. ANNUALLY, ONE IN 10 BIRTHS

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by CAROLINE MAY 29 Apr 2015

Approximately 350,000 to 400,000 children are born to illegal immigrants in the U.S. each year. Due to current policy, all automatically become U.S. citizens, Center for Immigration Studies legal policy analyst Jon Feere testified before a House panel Wednesday.

“To put this in perspective this means that one out of 10 births in the U.S. is to an illegal immigrant mother,” Freere said at a House Subcommittee on Immigration and Border Security hearing titled “Birthright Citizenship: Is It The Right Policy For America?”

He explained that, regardless of the foreign allegiance and/or illegal status of the parents, their children, if born on U.S. soil, are automatically afforded the benefits of U.S. citizenship, including a Social Security Number and U.S. passports. This benefit also applies, he noted, to those born to mere tourists and other people with temporary status in the U.S.

“It is unlikely that Congress intended such a broad application of the 14th Amendment’s Citizenship Clause, and the Supreme Court has only held that children born to citizens or permanently domiciled immigrants must be considered U.S. citizens at birth. Some clarity from Congress would be helpful in resolving this ongoing debate,” Feere said.

Feere further testified that the number of children in the U.S. with illegal immigrant parents increased from 2.7 million in 2003 to 4.5 million in 2010 and noted that the birthright policy is intrinsically linked to some of President Obama’s executive amnesties.

“Under the immigration enforcement priorities of the Obama administration, illegal immigrants who give birth to U.S. citizens have become low priorities for deportation.

Furthermore, the president’s DAPA program, the Deferred Action for Parents of Americans and Lawful Permanent Residents program, currently held up in court would provide benefits to illegal immigrants who gave birth here and allow them to ‘stay in the U.S. without fear of deportation.’ The broad interpretation of the Citizenship Clause forms the basis for these policies,” he said.

The CIS expert highlighted other implications of birthright citizenship, such as birth tourism, where pregnant foreigners come to the U.S. simply to have a child with a U.S. passport.
“Birth tourism is becoming much more common with every passing year and Congress will have to address it,” Feere said.

Feere also testified that the many countries that once had birth-right policies have shifted away from them.

“The United States and Canada are the only two advanced economies as rated by the IMF to grant automatic citizenship to children of illegal aliens,” he said.

http://www.breitbart.com/big-governm...lly-one-in-10-births/

And I don't believe this number is accurate, because I believe there are actually a lot more than that. If states don't verify parentage legality, how can they know who is and isn't in the country legally? Something our treasonous corrupt government tells US it doesn't even know? But in any event, 400,000 is an outrageous number, and if this alone doesn't send a wake up call to every loyal member of the US Congress to pass David Vitter's Senate Bill and Steve King's House Bill immediately to stop automatic birthright citizenship to people born to illegal alien parents, then we're just Whistling Dixie to think this government will ever again represent the best interests of the people of the United States.

I'd say "citizens", but since they've reduced that to nothing but a second class group of people in our country who count for nothing, whose interests are ignored and betrayed and the only time they want anything to do with real citizens of this nation is to ask for money or demand it through the income tax.

"......and Congress will have to address it," Freere said. I hope this does not shock you, but if those serving in this Congress had any intention of that, by now it would be done. This nation needs a government that has its feet on the ground instead off its head in the clouds! Not anyone with that qualification has yet volunteered for duty.

Originally Posted by JohnDoe2

EXPERT: UP TO 400K CHILDREN BORN TO ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS IN U.S. ANNUALLY, ONE IN 10 BIRTHS

Flickr / devinf

by CAROLINE MAY 29 Apr 2015

Approximately 350,000 to 400,000 children are born to illegal immigrants in the U.S. each year. Due to current policy, all automatically become U.S. citizens, Center for Immigration Studies legal policy analyst Jon Feere testified before a House panel Wednesday.

“To put this in perspective this means that one out of 10 births in the U.S. is to an illegal immigrant mother,” Freere said at a House Subcommittee on Immigration and Border Security hearing titled “Birthright Citizenship: Is It The Right Policy For America?”

He explained that, regardless of the foreign allegiance and/or illegal status of the parents, their children, if born on U.S. soil, are automatically afforded the benefits of U.S. citizenship, including a Social Security Number and U.S. passports. This benefit also applies, he noted, to those born to mere tourists and other people with temporary status in the U.S.

“It is unlikely that Congress intended such a broad application of the 14th Amendment’s Citizenship Clause, and the Supreme Court has only held that children born to citizens or permanently domiciled immigrants must be considered U.S. citizens at birth. Some clarity from Congress would be helpful in resolving this ongoing debate,” Feere said.

Feere further testified that the number of children in the U.S. with illegal immigrant parents increased from 2.7 million in 2003 to 4.5 million in 2010 and noted that the birthright policy is intrinsically linked to some of President Obama’s executive amnesties.

“Under the immigration enforcement priorities of the Obama administration, illegal immigrants who give birth to U.S. citizens have become low priorities for deportation.

Furthermore, the president’s DAPA program, the Deferred Action for Parents of Americans and Lawful Permanent Residents program, currently held up in court would provide benefits to illegal immigrants who gave birth here and allow them to ‘stay in the U.S. without fear of deportation.’ The broad interpretation of the Citizenship Clause forms the basis for these policies,” he said.

The CIS expert highlighted other implications of birthright citizenship, such as birth tourism, where pregnant foreigners come to the U.S. simply to have a child with a U.S. passport.
“Birth tourism is becoming much more common with every passing year and Congress will have to address it,” Feere said.

Feere also testified that the many countries that once had birth-right policies have shifted away from them.

“The United States and Canada are the only two advanced economies as rated by the IMF to grant automatic citizenship to children of illegal aliens,” he said.

http://www.breitbart.com/big-governm...lly-one-in-10-births/

WELL ALL I CAN SAY YOU HAVE YOUR BABY WELL IN MY BOOK THIS BABY IS STILL NOT A US CITIZEN AT ALL I WOULD SAY HAVE YOUR BABY & GO BACK HOME YOU BOTH ARE NOT A CITIZEN AT ALL YOU ALL COME OVER & HAVE YOUR BABY & WHO PAY WE DO & THIS IS NOT RIGHT WE CAN NOT PAY OUR BILL BUT WE HAVE TO PAY FOR YOU & YOUR BABY THIS IS NOT RIGHT . OBAMA THIS IS ALL YOUR DOING .IT NOT ONLY MEXICO IT ALL OF THE OTHER COUNTRY AS WELL LOOK AROUND OPEN YOUR EYES HELLO