Thread: HR 1940 - Stopping Anchor Baby Loophole

Originally Posted by MW

Note, Rep. Ron Paul (R-TX) isn't on the list of coosponsors.

Come on, MW, that's not even fair! He may not have been listed on this one, but there's no question Ron Paul is against anchor babies! He wants to amend the Constitution to stop it! Check out this link-

http://grades.betterimmigration.com/...reer&VIPID=787

Alright, so when does this bill hit the Senate floor?

See Secure Borders First Act of 2007. It is included in our proposed legislation (section 33).

IMMEDIATE RELEASE: CONTACT: Mary Heim/Melanie Martindale
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SACRAMENTO – California's population is projected to reach almost 60 million people by 2050,
adding over 25 million since the 2000 decennial census, according to long-range population
projections released today by the California Department of Finance.
From less than 34 million Californians counted in that census, the new data series shows that
the state will pass the 40 million mark in 2012, and exceed 50 million by 2032.
The new projections reveal that Hispanics are now expected to constitute the majority of
Californians by 2042. By the middle of the century, the projections show that Hispanics will be
52 percent of the state's population, with Whites comprising 26 percent. Asians are expected to
be 13 percent; Blacks, 5 percent; and Multirace persons, 2 percent. Both American Indian and
Hawaiian/Pacific Islander groups will each make up less than 1 percent of the state by 2050.
The new projections are also available at the county level. Los Angeles will continue to be
California's largest county, topping 13 million by mid-century. With 4.7 million people, Riverside
County is expected to be the second largest county at that time, followed by San Diego, with
about 4.5 million residents. Orange County will be fourth largest, with slightly under 4 million
people.
These rankings are also reflected in counties' numerical change between 2000 and mid-century.
Los Angeles County will increase by the greatest amount, adding almost 3.5 million people.
Riverside will follow closely, adding almost 3.2 million. San Bernardino's period increment is
projected to be 1.9 million, followed by that of San Diego, close to 1.7 million. Four counties –
Kern, San Joaquin, Fresno and Orange – will each grow between 1 and 1.5 million people by
2050.
Sutter County is expected to more than triple in size and to experience the greatest percentage
increase over the 50-year period – 255 percent. Other counties with notable percentage
increases will be Yuba, Madera, Kern, and San Joaquin, demonstrating the shift in growth away
from the coast that has been underway for several years. Only one county – Sierra – is
expected to have fewer people, around 150 less, in 2050 than in 2000.
By 2050, the new projections indicate that Trinity County will have the highest percentage of
Whites of any county, while Imperial County will continue to have the highest percentage of
Hispanics. Alameda County will have the highest percentage of Asians; Santa Clara County will
have the highest proportion of Pacific Islanders; and San Bernardino will have the largest
proportion of Blacks. Finally, Alpine County will contain the largest percentage of American
Indians, while Inyo County will continue to have the largest share of Californians identifying
themselves as Multirace persons. At mid-century Whites will be the majority population in just
23 counties. Hispanics are projected to be the majority race/ethnic group in 22 counties.
The Department of Finance uses a baseline cohort-component method to project population by
age, gender and race/ethnicity. For this projection series, there are seven mutually exclusive
race/ethnic groups: Hispanics and non-Hispanic American Indians, Asians, Blacks, Multirace
persons, Pacific Islanders and Whites. A baseline projection assumes people have the right to
migrate where they choose and no major natural catastrophes or war will befall the state or the
nation. A cohort-component method traces people born in a given year through their lives. As
each year passes, cohorts change as specified in the mortality and migration assumptions.
New cohorts are formed by applying the fertility assumptions to women of childbearing age.
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NOTE TO EDS: Other population reports are available from the Department's website:
http://www.dof.ca.gov under Demographic, Economic and Financial Research.

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July 6, 2007

NAHR to implement "alert systems" against ICE raids


The National Association for Human Rights (NAHR) discussed the
implementation of "community alert systems" against the increasing
Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) raids, detentions, and
deportations affecting Mexican and other Latino immigrants. NAHR
discussed different proposals for an alert system at their meeting in
San Bernardino on July 5th. Due to expanding xenophobia in the USA and
pressure on ICE by nativists, the federal agency has increased their
raids on immigrant communities.

The raids resulted in one US citizen of Mexican descent being deported
to Tijuana, Baja California by mistake. The family of the American
citizen, Pedro Guzman, 29, a Lancaster construction worker, disappeared
after apparently being mistakenly deported to Tijuana a month ago has
filed suit asking the U.S. government to help find him.

The raids have also separated numerous families when parents are
deported leaving their US citizen children behind to fend for
themselves. The abhorrent practice has resulted in city councils in
Southern California declaring their cities "immigrant sanctuaries".
Yesterday, civic leader Amin David, who heads Los Amigos of Orange
County, urged the Santa Ana city Council to declare the city an
"immigrant sanctuary" and join many others that have already done so.


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Gibson: "Make more babies" because in "[t]wenty-five years ... the majority of the population is Hispanic"Summary: On The Big Story, John Gibson urged viewers to "[d]o your duty. Make more babies," because he had found out, from a recently released report, that nearly half of all children under the age of five in the United States are minorities. Gibson added: "You know what that means? Twenty-five years and the majority of the population is Hispanic." Gibson later repeated: "To put it bluntly, we need more babies."
On the May 11 edition of Fox News' The Big Story, host John Gibson advised viewers during the "My Word" segment of his program to "[d]o your duty. Make more babies." He then cited a May 10 article, which reported that nearly half of all children under the age of five in the United States are minorities. Gibson added: "By far, the greatest number [of children under five] are Hispanic. You know what that means? Twenty-five years and the majority of the population is Hispanic." Gibson later claimed: "To put it bluntly, we need more babies." Then, referring to Russia's projected decline in population, Gibson claimed: "So far, we are doing our part here in America but Hispanics can't carry the whole load. The rest of you, get busy. Make babies, or put another way -- a slogan for our times: 'procreation not recreation'."

As The Washington Post reported, the U.S. Census Bureau recently released population estimates that found that nearly half (45 percent) of U.S. children under five are racial or ethnic minorities, and that "the percentage is increasing mainly because the Hispanic population is growing so rapidly." The U.S. Census notes that, "[e]stimates usually are for the present and the past, while projections are estimates of the population for future dates." The U.S. Census last released its population projection in March 2004 and found that, by the year 2030, Hispanics will account for roughly 20 percent of the total population in the United States. The U.S. Census also projected that Hispanics will make up 24 percent of the nation's population by 2050. The two-year old projection has not been updated to take into account the new data on the race and ethnicity of children under five.

Gibson also noted that Europe is "not having enough babies to sustain their population," adding that "[c]onsequently, they are inviting in more and more immigrants every year to take care of things and those immigrants are having way more babies than the native population, hence 'Eurabia'."

From the May 11 edition of Fox News' The Big Story with John Gibson:

GIBSON: Now, it's time for "My Word." Do your duty. Make more babies. That's a lesson drawn out of two interesting stories over the last couple of days.

First, a story yesterday that half of the kids in this country under five years old are minorities. By far, the greatest number are Hispanic. You know what that means? Twenty-five years and the majority of the population is Hispanic. Why is that? Well, Hispanics are having more kids than others. Notably, the ones Hispanics call "gabachos" -- white people -- are having fewer.

Now, in this country, European ancestry people, white people, are having kids at the rate that does sustain the population. It grows a bit. That compares to Europe where the birth rate is in the negative zone. They are not having enough babies to sustain their population. Consequently, they are inviting in more and more immigrants every year to take care of things and those immigrants are having way more babies than the native population, hence Eurabia.

Why aren't they having babies? Because babies get in the way of a prosperous and comfortable modern life. Peanut butter fingerprints on the leather seats in the BMW. The Euros are particular -- in particular can't be bothered with kids. Underscore that second point.

A second story, today, reports that [Russian President] Vladimir Putin is so concerned about the declining and imploding population of Russia, he is paying couples to have babies. Imagine, procreating for cash in Mother Russia. Putin has taken this step because at the rate things are going, Russia will lose close to 45 million in population in the next 45 years. Russia will be two thirds of today's population.

This is not a good trend for Russia and it won't be here either if that should happen. To put it bluntly, we need more babies. Forget about that zero population growth stuff that my poor generation was misled on. Why is this important? Because civilizations need population to survive. So far, we are doing our part here in America but Hispanics can't carry the whole load. The rest of you, get busy. Make babies, or put another way -- a slogan for our times: "procreation not recreation." That's "My Word."

—B

This explains what our forfathers had in mind on birthright citizenship, very interesting if you have not read it before.


The United States currently grants automatic U.S. citizenship to almost all children born in the United States, regardless of whether the parents are U.S. citizens, legal residents, temporary visitors, or illegal aliens in the United States. Some 380,000 children are born in the United States each year to illegal-alien mothers, according to U.S. Census data. The only exceptions to this automatic granting of citizenship are the children of foreign diplomats stationed in the United States, whose citizenship at birth is governed by international treaty.

"Anchor Babies"

The children born in the United States to illegal-alien mothers are often referred to as "anchor babies." Under current practice, these children are U.S. citizens at birth, simply because they were born on U.S. soil. They are called anchor babies because, as U.S. citizens, they become eligible to sponsor for legal immigration most of their relatives, including their illegal-alien mothers, when they turn 21 years of age, thus becoming the U.S. "anchor" for an extended immigrant family.

While there is no formal policy that forbids DHS from deporting the illegal-alien parents of children born in the U.S., they rarely are actually deported. In some cases, immigration judges make exceptions for the parents on the basis of their U.S.-born children and grant the parents legal status. In many cases, though, immigration officials choose not to initiate removal proceedings against illegal aliens with U.S.-born children, so they simply remain here illegally.

Thus, the U.S.-born children of illegal aliens not only represent additional U.S. population growth, but act as 'anchors' to eventually pull a large number of extended family members into the country legally. In fact, an entire industry has built up around the U.S. system of birthright citizenship. Thousands of pregnant women who are about to deliver come to the United States each year from countries as far away as South Korea and as near as Mexico so that they can give birth on U.S. soil. Some come legally as temporary visitors; others enter illegally. Once the child is born, they get a U.S. birth certificate and passport for the child, and their future link to this country is established and irreversible.

Fourteenth Amendment Debate

Birthright citizenship is based on the Fourteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, which was originally enacted to ensure civil rights for the newly freed slaves after the Civil War. Section 1 of the Fourteenth Amendment states, "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."

A serious and scholarly debate has been on-going for years about whether illegal aliens (and temporary visitors) are, in fact, "subject to the jurisdiction" of the United States. Some scholars insist that the phrase has no real meaning of its own, but rather is essentially another way of saying "born in the United States." They believe the Fourteenth Amendment requires that any child born on U.S. soil be granted U.S. citizenship. Other scholars look to the legal traditions observed by most courts, including the presumption that all words used in a legislation are intended to have meaning (i.e., not simply be restatements) and that, if the meaning of a word or phrase is unclear or ambiguous, the congressional debate over the legislation may indicate the authors' intent. These scholars therefore presume that "subject to the jurisdiction" means something different from "born in the United States," so they have looked to the original Senate debate over the Fourteenth Amendment to determine its meaning. They conclude that the authors of the Fourteenth Amendment did NOT want to grant citizenship to every person who happened to be born on U.S. soil.

The jurisdiction requirement was added to the original draft of the Fourteenth Amendment by the Senate after a lengthy and acrimonious debate. In fact, Senator Jacob Merritt Howard of Michigan proposed the addition of the phrase specifically because he wanted to make clear that the simple accident of birth in the United States was not sufficient to justify citizenship. Sen. Howard noted that the jurisdiction requirement is "simply declaratory of what I regard as the law of the land already." Sen. Howard said that "this will not, of course, include persons born in the United States who are foreigners, aliens, who belong to the families of ambassadors or foreign ministers accredited to the Government of the United States, but will include every other class of persons."

Sen. Reverdy Johnson of Maryland, who was the only Democrat to participate in the Senate debate, was even more explicit about the meaning of the jurisdiction requirement: “[A]ll persons born in the United States and not subject to some foreign Power -- for that, no doubt, is the meaning of the committee who have brought the matter before -- shall be considered as citizens of the United States.â€