The 'anchor baby' thing needs to be fixed... Anchor babies are an unconstitutional declaration of citizenship to those born of non-Americans. It's wrong, and it's immoral.
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The anchor baby situation has got to stop.
The current practice of extending U.S. citizenship to hundreds of thousands of 'anchor babies' must end because it creates a magnet for illegal immigration into our country. Now is the time to ensure that the laws in this country do not encourage law-breaking.
Just as we send young American Jews to Israel through the Birthright program, we need to also consider a 'reverse Birthright' for Israeli kids to come see America.
When you see the political parties squabble, if a baby is not allowed to be born, all the other issues do not come into play.
You would have a huge statelessness problem if you don't consider a child born abroad a U.S. citizen.
I think the next president ought to invoke the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments to the Constitution now that we clearly know that that baby inside the mother's womb is a person at the moment of conception.
Make no mistake about why these babies are here - they are here to replace us.
The real test of an anchor is when there's a very big event. Sept. 11 is the quintessential example of that, and that day it took everything that I knew as an anchor, as a citizen, as a father, as a husband, to get through it.
Births to illegal immigrants now account for nearly one out of every ten births in the United States.
It's been federal law for over two centuries that the child of an American born abroad is a citizen - a natural born citizen.