Thread: 14th AMENDMENT

ANCHOR BABIES
Posted By: 1. Groner on 3/25/2005 1:00:43 PM in Road To Rome
--One Reporter's Opinion – 14th Amendment Abuse by Illegal Aliens--

"NEWSMAX --It is this reporter's opinion that it is time to re-examine abuses of the 14th Amendment to our Constitution. It states in part, "All persons born or naturalized in the United States and subject to the jurisdiction thereof are citizens of the United States and of the state wherein they reside." The 14th Amendment is a simple document, drafted after the Civil War to assure that newly emancipated black slaves would never be denied citizenship by the states.

The drafters had no idea that, years later, the amendment would be used to make a mockery of our immigration laws. It was never intended that an illegal alien can cross the borders into our country, have a baby a few minutes later, and then the baby is automatically declared a citizen of the United States.
Automatic citizenship means that the illegal family is entitled to welfare benefits, and illegal alien parents who have children born in the United States are seldom, if ever, deported. These children are called ANCHOR BABIES: They anchor their families securely in the United States." (George Putnam/WorldNetDaily.com 3/25/05)
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The time has come to do something about these anchor babies!

Originally Posted by nittygritty

The time has come to do something about these anchor babies!

I know. This is just one of many things about the illegal immigration problem that has baffled me. If the constitution has been misconstrued or misinterpreted to accomdate illegal's babies, then it should be so easy to undo. No?! I take a really hard line on this one anyway. I think all anchor babies should be deported a long with their parents.

Write, call, email, fax your congressmen, senators, governors, the Whitehouse.
Bombard them.
Tell them how you feel about 14th amendment abuse.

U.S. Constitution: Fourteenth Amendment


Section. 1. All persons born or naturalized in the United States and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside. No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.

Section. 2. Representatives shall be apportioned among the several States according to their respective numbers, counting the whole number of persons in each State, excluding Indians not taxed. But when the right to vote at any election for the choice of electors for President and Vice President of the United States, Representatives in Congress, the Executive and Judicial officers of a State, or the members of the Legislature thereof, is denied to any of the male inhabitants of such State, being twenty-one years of age, and citizens of the United States, or in any way abridged, except for participation in rebellion, or other crime, the basis of representation therein shall be reduced in the proportion which the number of such male citizens shall bear to the whole number of male citizens twenty-one years of age in such State.

Section. 3. No person shall be a Senator or Representative in Congress, or elector of President and Vice President, or hold any office, civil or military, under the United States, or under any State, who, having previously taken an oath, as a member of Congress, or as an officer of the United States, or as a member of any State legislature, or as an executive or judicial officer of any State, to support the Constitution of the United States, shall have engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the same, or given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof. But Congress may by a vote of two-thirds of each House, remove such disability.

Section. 4. The validity of the public debt of the United States, authorized by law, including debts incurred for payment of pensions and bounties for services in suppressing insurrection or rebellion, shall not be questioned. But neither the United States nor any State shall assume or pay any debt or obligation incurred in aid of insurrection or rebellion against the United States, or any claim for the loss or emancipation of any slave; but all such debts, obligations and claims shall be held illegal and void.

Section. 5. The Congress shall have power to enforce, by appropriate legislation, the provisions of this article.

I don't see how this can justify illegal aliens looting and occupying our once great nation.

The illegal aliens go to great lengths to remain outside of the jurisdiction thereof because once they get caught someone loyal to their oath of office is required to see that they are removed.

Originally Posted by nittygritty

The time has come to do something about these anchor babies!

Congressional actions
The citizenship of all persons born within the United States may still be decided by an Act of Congress, as was done for Native Americans in the Indian Citizenship Act of 1924. The Citizenship Reform Act of 2005 (currently proposed as H.R. 69 would amend the Immigration and Nationality Act to clarify that the domestically born children of foreign nationals are not granted automatic citizenship. Some legislators have proposed that the citizenship clause be changed through a constitutional amendment; however, no amendment has yet been presented to the States for ratification.
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References
1. See P.A Madison's Alien Birthright Citizenship: A Fable That Lives Through Ignorance
2. Congressman Mark Souder (R. IN) Congressional Update regarding anchor babies. An anchor baby is a pejorative term used to describe a child born in the U.S. to a non- citizen ... [see Anchor Babies dated 07/17/2006]
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See also
Illegal immigration
Illegal immigration in the United States
United States nationality law
United States Constitution
Birth tourism
Retrieved from "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anchor_baby"
Categories: History of immigration to the United States | Pejorative terms for people


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