Thread: First New Year Babies

Good idea UnemployedAmerican. I never thought of compiling a list of all the illegal anchor babies. It would be interesting to see how many there really are.
You can add Miami to the list. The parents recently immigrated from Venezuela.

In my local hospital the first born was to lithuanian parents. Doesn't indicate whether they are legal or not.

According to the Press, there are no illegal immigrants, so what if they came here uninvited, and don't speak the language. We don't want to ANNOUNCE their status as the American public would than realize the royal screwing they are getting through their general apathy and understanding of the danger of the invasion from the South.

My wife, who is a LEGAL immigrant from South America hates the illegals almost as much as I do, though I don't think she yet realizes all the pain that they caused our family while we were following the legal process.

Fangers, I have not known someone who has had to go through that process, but I hear it is very long and complicated. Having millions of illegal aliens clogging up the system and jumping ahead of everyone else in line, makes it more difficult, I am sure.

Welcome to ALIPAC, we can use some here who have had to work within the system to be here legally, to help out and lend a voice. Yes, we all do think it needs to be fixed, as well as tackle illegal immigration.

Well, you know the illegals aren't keeping fertility clinics in business...

Isn't that the truth! It makes me wonder why they can have all those kids yet I have friends who are unable to have any.

Tucson's first New Year's Baby was born to an hispanic, teenage, unwed mother...

Tucson's first 2007 baby is Unique

Jan 2, 2007 06:08 AM MST

Tucson's first New Year's baby was born about 1:00 a.m. Monday morning and she's truly a unique little girl.

"I didn't think she was going to come," laughs Angel Fimbres, the newborn's mother, "but she's here."

She wasn't due until Tuesday but this baby couldn't wait.

Fimbres says, "She was due the second. I wasn't sure, but everybody was telling me it's going to be a New Year's baby."

And she was, born 63 minutes into the new year at Tucson Medical Center.

Fimbres says, "I was crying. Like, that's my baby."

A single mother, 18-year-old Fimbres named her firstborn Angel, but, she says, she'll call her daughter by her middle name, which is "Unique".

Fimbres says, "I wanted her to have a name that no girl's ever had."

Fimbres also wishes for a life that's unique.

Fimbres says, "Everything I never had, she's going to have, and everything I didn't do, I hope shes does and the right way."

This newborn isn't waiting. Just minutes into 2007, Unique started making her name come true, becoming Tucson's first New Year's baby.

Here's my city:

Charlotte welcomes 2007 baby
1/1/2007 6:00 PM
By: News 14 Carolina Staff


Josu'e Eduardo Martinez Callejas

CHARLOTTE -- The first baby of 2007 at Carolinas Medical Center came into the world right after midnight at 12:27 a.m.

Josu'e Eduardo Martinez Callejas weighed in at 8 pounds and 21.5 inches. Baby, mother, father, and sister 5-year-old Tanya are all doing very well.

'First baby' of 2007 runs afoul of immigration debate

New York Times News Service
Jan. 5, 2007 07:56 PM

It seemed like a perfect formula for good publicity: A national sweepstakes would award a $25,000 U.S. savings bond to the first American baby born in 2007, courtesy of the toy chain Toys "R" Us and its Babies "R" Us division.

Instead, after disqualifying a Chinese-American baby girl born in New York Downtown Hospital at the stroke of midnight on New Year's, the toy company finds itself caught in the glare of the immigration debate, stumbling over the nation's new demographic realities.

The baby girl, Yuki Lin, was a U.S. citizen from the second the ball dropped in Times Square, where the Toys "R" Us flagship store draws thousands of shoppers from around the world. But like six out of 10 babies born in the city - including at least two others born in Brooklyn at about the same moment - she has immigrant parents. And according to the contest's fine print, the chain decided, she was ruled out because her mother was not a legal resident.

The first baby of the year is usually a one-day story. But Albert H. Wang, a corporate lawyer who read about Yuki Lin's lost chance on the Web site of the Chinese-language newspaper The World Journal, was outraged enough to start an e-mail campaign that is enlisting the ire of prominent Chinese-Americans like the president of the Asian American Business Development Center and officers of the Organization of Chinese Americans.

Their criticism, and threats of a media campaign against the company, come just a month after the chain opened its first store in China, in Shanghai.

"They want business from China," said Wang, 39, adding that most of the chain's toys are made by Chinese workers in China. "But when it comes to this Chinese-American U.S. citizen, she was deprived of $25,000 intended to be used for her college education, because of who her parents are."

Kathleen Waugh, a spokeswoman for the company, confirmed Friday that Yuki Lin, born at 6.5 ounces and 19 inches long, had been close to winning the prize. The baby won a random drawing to break a three-way tie with hospitals in Gainesville, Ga., and Bay Shore, N.Y., which also claimed a baby born at midnight.

But, she added, "In working with New York Downtown Hospital to verify the potential winner's information and obtain a signed affidavit of eligibility - which is required under the official rules of the sweepstakes - the sweepstakes administrator was informed that the mother of the baby born at New York Downtown Hospital was not a legal resident of the United States." Contest rules say that only mothers who are legal residents are eligible, Waugh said, adding that such requirements are common in sweepstakes.

The award went instead to the runner-up in the drawing, Jayden Swain, born 19 seconds after midnight at Northeast Georgia Medical Center to Renee Swain, 20, described by her mother as "a black American." "She's an American all the way," Swain's mother, Janet K. Keller, said in a telephone interview.

The baby at Bay Shore was born to a couple from El Salvador.

Wang and other Chinese-Americans say the winner was to be the baby, not the mother, and they see implications of second-class citizenship that strike an ugly chord. It only seemed to add insult to injury, they said, that the baby was instead given a $100 gift basket, just like all the others the chain gives to the first New Year's babies born in any hospital that signs up for it.

"People are just pretty much outraged," said John Wang, president of the 13-year-old Asian American Business Development Center, on Wall Street, adding that he was perplexed by the company's actions.

"The schools accept children whose parents are illegal aliens in this country, so why is Toys R' Us taking this kind of position?" he asked. "They're supported by many people, whether they're legal or illegal, shopping in their stores, and they're injecting themselves into this debate."

The parents could not be reached for comment, and their immigration status was unclear. Vanessa Warner, a spokeswoman for Downtown Hospital, would not answer questions about the event, though an upbeat account of the birth and photos of the parents and medical team were on the hospital Web site Friday.

Leo Y. Lee, 49, an engineer who is past national vice president of the Organization of Chinese Americans, an advocacy organization, pointed out that the savings bond was awarded in the name of the baby, not the mother, and that there was no legal requirement for a rule barring the American-born child of an illegal immigrant.

"I am strongly opposed to the Toys R' Us decision to give the award to another baby just based solely on the mother's status," he said. His group, he said, does not "condone or approve illegal immigration, but anyone who is here should be protected by law - especially a baby with the same rights as any other citizen."

But comments by Keller, the grandmother of the winning baby, hinted at the wrath that the company risked from the other side at a time when the most stringent critics of illegal immigration have called for an end to birthright citizenship, saying the children born to illegal immigrants are "anchor babies" who encourage illegal entry.

"If she's an illegal alien, that makes the baby illegal," said Keller, 50. Told otherwise, she remarked, "Sounds like a double standard to me," adding, "She was disqualified - that should be it. Don't go changing your mind now."

Adding to the confusion were promotional materials that called for "all expectant New Year's mothers" to apply to the contest, and allowed hospitals and Ob/Gyn offices to apply on behalf of the patients. The hospitals were offered a chance to win a $10,000 prenatal education grant. About 8,000 mothers and more than 800 hospitals participated in the contest, Waugh said.
http://link.toolbot.com/azcentral.com/53822

We need to be congratulating Toys-R-Us for standing up and not backing down on their contests rules, for anyone.

Although it appears from the story the parents have visa's, or might be in the process, since the company made that policy ahead of this childs birth, there is no reason they should award this to them to please the politically correct crowd.

Rules are rules, just as laws are laws.

Way to go Toys-R-Us!