Thread: The Next Front on Immigration - ANCHOR BABIES

The Next Front on Immigration - ANCHOR BABIES

NewsWeek
August 4th, 2010

Arizona's tough immigration law is just the beginning of the conservative battle to clamp down on illegal immigrants. A broader fight is coming - possibly even to change the U.S. Constitution. Sen. Lindsey Graham made headlines last week, telling Fox News he's considering a constitutional change to revise the right, enshrined in the 14th Amendment, that grants automatic citizenship to any child born in the United States. He would revoke this right for children of illegal immigrants. “It’s called ‘drop and leave,’ ” Graham said, and while he added that he wanted to be “humane,” he also feared that in 20 years’ time, 20 million more such children would be granted citizenship.

Source: http://www.thedailybeast.com/newswee...migration.html

Illinois Rep. Luis Gutierrez tells NEWSWEEK, “It seems inconsistent to me that politicians who are pro-life and pro-family are also pro-deportation for newborns…We should continue what America has done for hundreds of years, integrating waves of immigrants from Ireland, Italy, and wherever the Grahams came from

What does denying US citizenship to the spawn of two people who entered this country in violation of our federal law, as well as our sovereignty have to do with previous waves of legal "immigration?"

Luis Gutierrez is a disingenuous racist!

But now Graham is speaking the language of organizations like the Federation for American Immigration Reform, which argues against the rights of so-called anchor babies, saying they drain taxpayer dollars. In 2009, then–Georgia Rep. Nathan Deal introduced a bill that would grant citizenship to such infants only if one parent is already a citizen or a legal immigrant. The bill has 92 co-sponsors but has languished in the House.

Some thought Graham was just trying to score short-term political points.

Resolution By South Carolina Republicans Condemning Lindsay Graham

http://www.alipac.us/ftopicp-1099135-.html#1099135

Originally Posted by NoBueno

Illinois Rep. Luis Gutierrez tells NEWSWEEK, “We should continue what America has done for hundreds of years, integrating waves of immigrants from Ireland, Italy, and wherever the Grahams came from."

What does denying US citizenship to the spawn of two people who entered this country in violation of our federal law, as well as our sovereignty have to do with previous waves of legal "immigration?"

Luis Gutierrez is a disingenuous racist!

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Does Ireland or Italy have a 1.969 mile-long border with the (extremely inundated by illegal aliens from Mexico) United States?

Didn't think so.

Originally Posted by NoBueno

Illinois Rep. Luis Gutierrez tells NEWSWEEK, “It seems inconsistent to me that politicians who are pro-life and pro-family are also pro-deportation for newborns…We should continue what America has done for hundreds of years, integrating waves of immigrants from Ireland, Italy, and wherever the Grahams came from

What does denying US citizenship to the spawn of two people who entered this country in violation of our federal law, as well as our sovereignty have to do with previous waves of legal "immigration?"

Luis Gutierrez is a disingenuous racist!

I'm just guessing that the waves of Irish and Italians came here legally through Ellis Island. The border jumpers from Mexico are ILLEGAL, Luis. Rather than deporting the "poor, poor innocent babies" we should enforce our borders so we don't have pregnant women swimming the Rio in order to drop a jackpot baby in the U.S. We especially need to put an end to birth tourism, whereby foreign mothers-to-be travel to the U.S. on a visa in order to have a U.S. citizen baby.