Thread: Anchor babies and family quotas

The way I understand it is that, barring any change in our policy on family quotas, 18 year old "anchor babies" can apply to legalize their parents and other "relatives".

I hope we annul the amendment on birthright citizenship. But in case we can't take away the citizenship already granted to these kids we will be left with millions of anchor babies born in the past 20 years. This could end up bringing in entire villages. Since many third world countries are full of people who lack birth documents an "anchor baby" could claim phony kinship to anyone and bring in dozens of "relatives" under our current rules.

I have a suggestion. I would add to the bill "anchor babies should NOT ever be able to sponsor anyone related to them OR coming from the country of their parents". Not parent, not sibling, not grandparent. Anchor babies should be treated as a very special case, legalized solely by an amendment wrongly interpreted!

Just on this one point, what do you think?

I doubt we can do anything that will affect the anchor babies already here.

We are stuck with them - personally I would like to see the 'family reunification' written out of the immigration law. Everyone should come to this country on their own merits - outside of spouse and/or children.

You know to allow immigrants or anchor babies to bring in their families and extended families is kinda like the man who said,

"I don't want to own all the land, just want joins mine."

It never ends - by the time we have all their families here - we could empty a country.

Originally Posted by InsaneAsylum

[b]The way I understand it is that, barring any change in our policy on family quotas, 18 year old "anchor babies" can apply to legalize their parents and other "relatives".

They cannot apply to "legalize" them, but they could apply to sponsor their relatives living outside the US. Parents and spouses are easiest, I can see millions of sham marriages where foreigners pay the anchor babies to "marry" them in name only.

Siblings can be sponsored also but this takes longer.

For current anchor babies, I think we need a law or Amendment that requires them at age 18 to pass the Citizenship test and swear allegiance to only the US. If they don't kick them out. The US did this with Japanese-Americans during WWII, 10,000 "anchor babies" refused and were somehow shipped back to Japan.

Also I think any illegal parents who go back home and leave their anchors here should lose any right to be sponsored for a green card.