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The following is a report from Fox News morning show this morning 12/06/18
Apparently a pregnant Honduran woman climbed over the wall in Tiajuana to Imperial Beach CA, and was arrested. A couple of days later she had a baby and was released into the country.
She stated her goal was to join her family in Columbus OH, and having a baby on US soil was "a big reward for the long journey in the caravan."
The Asian-American commentator, herself a child of LEGAL Immigrants, rightly states "That is the achor baby problem."
I agree that the 14 Amendment has been completely perverted by the idea that all you need to do to jump the Immigration line is to have a baby on US soil, which then "anchors" you ahead of all other potential immigrants.
I hope the SCOTUS finally clarifies the issue, if Congress does not do it by law.
(Please don't cite United States v. Wong Kim Ark, as IMO the basis for that decision was the fact the Chinese parents were LEGAL alien resident's present by treaty to reside in the US, and thus their native-born son was "subject to the jurisdiction thereof").
Illegal migrants are citizens of a foreign nation present without permission, and remain subjects of that foreign nation (which is why they can be deported). International law allows foreign citizens to be punished by the nations they are "visiting" if they violate the laws of that nation, so trying to argue this refer to what "subject to the jurisdiction thereof" means, is IMHO a stretch.
The law should prevent such misinterpretation of birthright citizenship, as the commentator states almost unique aside from the US and Canada in the industrialized world, and that would stifle this "rush" to the borders of such line-jumpers.
I guess we'll have to see how SCOTUS deals with it since Congress refuses to do so.
Apparently a pregnant Honduran woman climbed over the wall in Tiajuana to Imperial Beach CA, and was arrested. A couple of days later she had a baby and was released into the country.
She stated her goal was to join her family in Columbus OH, and having a baby on US soil was "a big reward for the long journey in the caravan."
The Asian-American commentator, herself a child of LEGAL Immigrants, rightly states "That is the achor baby problem."
I agree that the 14 Amendment has been completely perverted by the idea that all you need to do to jump the Immigration line is to have a baby on US soil, which then "anchors" you ahead of all other potential immigrants.
I hope the SCOTUS finally clarifies the issue, if Congress does not do it by law.
(Please don't cite United States v. Wong Kim Ark, as IMO the basis for that decision was the fact the Chinese parents were LEGAL alien resident's present by treaty to reside in the US, and thus their native-born son was "subject to the jurisdiction thereof").
Illegal migrants are citizens of a foreign nation present without permission, and remain subjects of that foreign nation (which is why they can be deported). International law allows foreign citizens to be punished by the nations they are "visiting" if they violate the laws of that nation, so trying to argue this refer to what "subject to the jurisdiction thereof" means, is IMHO a stretch.
The law should prevent such misinterpretation of birthright citizenship, as the commentator states almost unique aside from the US and Canada in the industrialized world, and that would stifle this "rush" to the borders of such line-jumpers.
I guess we'll have to see how SCOTUS deals with it since Congress refuses to do so.
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