Posted on 11/03/2018 7:26:50 AM PDT by Kaslin
The president rolled another flash grenade onto our political stage this week, and it sent the Trump Hate Media into a predictable tizzy.
Trump was called a racist - for the umpteenth time - because he said he plans to use an executive order to put an end to birthright citizenship.
Birthright citizenship, made possible by the 14th Amendment, is the automatic granting of U.S. citizenship to any Mexican, Chinese, Russian, Kenyan or Martian baby who is born on American soil.
I made up the Martian part, though it's probably true.
But thanks to a relatively recent and very liberal misinterpretation of the 14th Amendment, even though the baby's parents are non-citizens, if they are born in America they get full U.S. citizenship.
For the rest of their lives these so-called "anchor babies" are given the right to live and work in the United States and collect benefits, just like anyone born in Beverly Hills.
Even better for the lucky foreign babies, when they turn 21 they can start applying for green cards to bring in their mothers, fathers, siblings, grandparents and Facebook friends to America.
I made up the Facebook part.
But it sounds like something President Trump might say when he is arguing that anchor babies need to be outlawed because they create the "chain migration" that allows extended family members from foreign lands to end up living in the U.S..
Not that you learned it in high school, but the 14th Amendment, known as one of the Reconstruction Amendments, was passed after the Civil War in 1868.
The first sentence of the first section reads:
"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."
Not that you learned it in college, but the 14th Amendment was specifically written to grant full citizenship rights to all former slaves and their children and to prevent the states from writing new laws depriving them of those rights (which, shamefully, the Southern states did when they passed their racist Jim Crow laws in the late 1800s).
Not that you learned it from the media, but the 14th Amendment was never intended to automatically award U.S. citizenship to the babies of foreign parents who happen to be here when their child was born.
It certainly wasn't meant to create the "birth tourism" business, which is run by Russian and Chinese companies that make it possible for wealthy foreigners to visit the United States for a month or two so their newborns arrive on our soil.
It was reckless of President Trump to throw out his "anchor baby" grenade a week before the important midterm elections.
It only gave the Trump Hate Media and Democrats another chance to bash, blame and mock the president.
The media never tried to explain how something written to protect slaves 150 years ago had morphed into an open legal door for birthright citizenship.
The liberal media never got around to talking about how the "birthright clause" has created the growth of a birth tourism industry.
And President Trump's media enemies sure didn't remind us that before the Democrats were against getting rid of anchor babies, they were in favor of getting rid of them.
We badly need immigration reform that is smart for America, not harmful.
I hope Trump can win his latest battle.
Ultimately it's going to be up to the U.S. Supreme Court to decide whether birthright citizenship for foreign nationals as we've known it for decades can be ended with a few strokes of his executive pen.
But there's little doubt that birthright citizenship is wrong for the United States. So are anchor babies.
It's time for us to fix the constitutional loophole that created them. It's also time for our schools to do a better job of teaching American history.
The clueless think it was.
No matter how many times it’s posted on the web (Constitution) people just don’t wanna read it....
Wouldn't be too bad if they all truly wanted to become Americans, assimilating to the best of their ability. But that is not the case much of the time.
An EO is temporary, but when a liberal judge issues a Stay and then it goes the the Supreme Court to be interpreted (for the first time) that is a lot more permanent.
The 14th was never intended to apply to foreigners.
Any foreigners.
The Supreme Court stretched it to cover the children of foreigners here legally in Wong Kim Ark, but did not extend it to illegal aliens.
That was done administratively sometime in the 1960’s.
An executive order can remedy that.
Children of foreign nationals inherit the nationality(ies) of their foreign national parent(s).
That’s why the children of foreign nationals are NOT natural born citizens.
The same principle is also how Ted Cruz acquired US citizenship being born in Canada. A citizen by extension of his mother’s citizenship, but not a natural born citizen.
Ever notice that a certain burka bearing religion produces oodles of babies? That alone is reason to terminate this nonsense.
“Ultimately it’s going to be up to the U.S. Supreme Court to decide”
Shouldn’t it be up to the Congress or the People - the electorate - directly?
We should decide who we think are “us”.
But of course the Reconstruction congress did that - but the courts and other miscreants since then have tried to hijack the amendment for their own purposes.
So for the moment, yeah...it ends up at the SCOTUS. Which for the first time in 75 years is not tilted towards European Socialism. So we may have a chance for sanity.
But the amendment really needs to be rewritten, or come with a solid lock on the definition of what “jurisdiction” means, so we don’t have another round of foreign nationals scamming the game to colonize us.
Nobody has mentioned birth tourism. But there appears to be a movement of birth tourism. There are reports that women from China in particular, come to America, and give birth. The baby is considered an American citizen, even though mother and baby return to China, and the baby is raised in China.
That is a huge loophole in our laws, to think that a birth tourism baby is an American citizen. Yet currently, such baby could grow up in China, then return to America as a fully recognized American citizen.
Birth tourism is a HUGE and very prosperous business. The families pay tens of thousands in cash to be here. I am somewhat sympatric as most families are very well educated and very to do. It’s very unlikely many of the children would every become a burden on the State.
At age 18 the young adult would have to choose his or her citizenship and renounce the other. Dealing with “chain migration” would solve the rest of the problem.
In 1866 having just ended a Civil War that cost >500,000 lives with countless more wounded, We the People codified the question of States Rights by granting birthright US citizenship to any illegal alien. Oh, and slaves too.
“””It was reckless of President Trump to throw out his “anchor baby” grenade a week before the important midterm elections.”””
Well, Michael, when was the last time you brought the subject up on a national stage?
Well, Michael, when was the last time you brought the subject up on a national stage?
Whether it was reckless or genius depends completely on who wins the upcoming midterms. President Trump somehow seems to read the electorate better than feckless RINOs. If the Republicans hold the House and Senate, after all the doom saying then I think that even Michael Reagan will owe President Trump an apology.
At the McAllen Texas Medical Center (2008) forty percent of the children born there, nearly 2,400 last year, were the babies of illegal immigrants. Joe Riley, CEO of the hospital: “We have uncompensated care of over $200 million a year.”
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/illegal-immigrant-births-at-your-expense/
2008, Parkland Memorial Hospital Dallas - 70% of the women giving birth were illegal aliens. That added up to 11,200 babies for which Medicaid kicked in 34.5 million dollars to deliver these babies, the feds another 9.5 million and Dallas taxpayers tossed in 31.3 million.
On average, a publicly funded birth cost $12,770 in prenatal care, labor and delivery, postpartum care and the first 12 months of infant care; care for months 13–60 cost, on average, another $7,947, for a total cost per birth of $20,716.
And what’s worse, some think those tourist citizen babies are natural born citizens eligible to be President.
I got curious and found this how-a-1965-immigration-reform-created-illegal-immigration
It doesn't deal with anchor babies but does deal with unintended consequences.
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