[parksstp]

I have a question.

If an anchorbaby or some other US-born Tourist baby was not granted US Citizenship, what citizenship would they be? Don’t tell me they gain the automatic citizenship status based on their parents, because if we toughen down on the loophole, the countries taking advantage of it will turn right around and try to force the issue.

Example: If Anchorbabies were denied US Citizenship, the first thing you would see is Mexcio’s Government pass a law that would end granting Mexican Citizenship to babies born abroad to Mexican-citizen parents. They would thus purposely prohibit the baby’s entry into Mexico upon the illegals’ eventual return there, putting the US Government in a bind as to what to do. The US can’t force the Mexican Government or any other soverign nation to recognize the anchorbaby as a Mexican citizen. So what do you do?

My thought was that the US Citizenship status to anchorbabies and Tourist-Babies was a necessary evil to protect the child from ending up as “a man/woman without a country”.

[rolling_stone]

wrong.

[buccaneer81]

This is a situation where international treaties make sense, just as they do for extradition and child custody cases.

[dfwgator]

My thought was that the US Citizenship status to anchorbabies and Tourist-Babies was a necessary evil to protect the child from ending up as “a man/woman without a country”.

So, just tell the parents not to come over here and have the kid, problem solved. Let the Mexicans handle the problem. It's not our job.