[horse_doc]

As an aside, I think the concept of anchor babies is largely a myth.

While I appreciate the sentiment, you are looking at this as a white-collar, highly-paid, New Yorker. If you come down and spend an afternoon in a Laredo or El Paso maternity ward, I think that you might change your mind.

Your mileage may vary in New York, but I promise that it isn't a myth, down here.

[Jason_b]

Some time back in my researches, I found that for someone to have citizenship, or their babies, he/she must owe allegiance to the country, for example permanent residents of a territory. Illegals continue to owe allegiance to their own country even when they are here; they never renoune it, nor affirm allegiance to the USA. Therefore like the children of ambassadors the children of illegals are not citizens. But since no one bothers to do any research our politicians and bureaucrats in ignorance treat the illegals children as citizens so they become de facto citizens.