Dear XXXXX:
I am writing to express my concern at Congress’s continued lack of progress in controlling this nation’s borders. While Congress talks of “amnesty” or “guest workers”, the American taxpayers shell out billions in tax dollars to pay health care, education, and other support for criminal aliens and their “anchor baby” offspring. While an illegal alien need only show up at the hospital and give birth, fully paid for by the taxpayer, our veterans face long waits and substandard care. Once born, the parents can have their own deportation deferred for the “good of the child”, never mind that they are criminals and the child made a citizen under illicit and constitutionally questionable circumstances.
This has got to stop.
Toward that end, I hope that you will take action by authoring or supporting a bill to remove automatic citizenship to children born of non-citizen parents. The language of the 14th Amendment includes a clause “and subject to the jurisdiction thereof” when describing who can be made citizens by birth. THIS CLAUSE NEEDS TO BE TESTED! If a Mexican citizen is charged with a crime in the United States, that person is entitled to receive assistance from the Mexican Consulate, as the Mexican government has been so fond of pointing out in regards to certain death penalty cases involving Mexican citizen defendants. Obviously, a case can be made that children of such people are not subject to United States jurisdiction, and in fact, they only need to choose whether they’ll have US citizenship upon their 18th birthday (under current law) or retain their Mexican citizenship.
As Congress seems happy to test the 1st Amendment by passing Campaign Finance Reform, thereby removing certain Constitutional rights that do exist, I think it only fitting that a bill be introduced that removes certain rights and privileges that DO NOT EXIST. Therefore, please introduce and/or support legislation that will forever remove the “anchor baby” syndrome, and thus reduce the attraction for people to immigrate here via illegal means.
Feel free to use it or amend it as needed.
LTS