'Birth tourism' a tiny portion of immigrant babies
Ruth Garcia
Ruth Garcia, a mother of six from Monterry, Mexico, who crossed into the U.S. illegally about 14 years ago, poses for a photo, Friday, Aug. 27, 2010, in San Juan, Texas. All of her children were born in the U.S. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)
Miguel
Miguel, 3, clings to his father, Miguel, an illegal immigrant, Friday, Aug. 27, 2010, in San Juan, Texas. Miguel and his wife, who remain in the U.S. as illegal immigrants, have two children born in the U.S. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)
Birthright Citizenship
U.S. Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, left, talks with officials following a news conference after taking a tour of the Port of Hidalgo and received briefings on border crossing operations from officials with U.S. Customs and Border Protection, the International Boundary and Water Commission, and other federal agencies, Friday, Aug. 27, 2010, in Hidalgo, Texas. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)
Miguel
Miguel, 3, plays Friday, Aug. 27, 2010, in San Juan, Texas. Miguel and his brother were born in the U.S. to parents who are illegal immigrants. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)
John Cornyn
U.S. Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, during a news conference after taking a tour of the Port of Hidalgo and received briefings on border crossing operations from officials with U.S. Customs and Border Protection, the International Boundary and Water Commission, and other federal agencies, Friday, Aug. 27, 2010, in Hidalgo, Texas. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)
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Masterrogue666 posted at 8:29 am on Fri, Sep 3, 2010.
Ruth Garcia has been a criminal for 14 years? In that time she's had 6 kids, and two on the way. Tell me, does she receive ANY funds (which are meant for US Citizens) from the state or federal government?
Why hasn't she tried for citizenship? We both know why...
cheetah13 posted at 9:28 am on Fri, Sep 3, 2010.
I'm all for changing the 14th ammendment. It was put in place for slaves and not the mexicans to come and drain our system. We need to be like other countries. Whatever the citizenship of the mother is that is what the child should be.
Send them all back!
If the mother is illegal, ship them both. No more free ride on my tax money!
TruthSeeker posted at 12:18 pm on Fri, Sep 3, 2010.
Technically, the children of illegal aliens cannot become president. Their parents would have had to become U.S. citizens prior to their children being born on U.S. soil. Unfortunately, this is not being enforced. Neither Bill Richardson nor Bobby Jindal are qualified because both of their parents still held allegiance to foreign countries when they were born -- not to mention Obama's father's allegiance to another country, too. And Obama obviously holds allegiance to foreign countries over America.
longtime mesa posted at 12:44 pm on Fri, Sep 3, 2010.
Don't you just love it when the AP puts out these articles to drum up our sympathy? Whether an illegal alien has lived here for ten minutes or 14 years, they are still breaking the law. The whole line about how their children have never known any other home? These people KNOW they're breaking the law, and they KNOW that they're placing their children at risk; they just want someone else to pick up the tab.
Douglas Massey's statement about never meeting anyone who came here just to get citizenship is either a lie, or he's got his head in the sand (or some other dark place...). CBS News has actually aired segments with interviews of illegals in border hospital maternity wards, stating that's EXACTLY why they ran across the border when they went into labor. And most of those patients pay NOTHING for the care they get. Does anyone really think these women are raising their anchor babies to be law-abiding, tax-paying, productive members of US society? No, they raise them to live on every form of government assistance they can get.
I think this is one of the things which bothers me the most about illegal aliens, especially the ones who have come in the past decade--they have an absolutely OBSCENE sense of entitlement.
Accuracy posted at 12:58 pm on Fri, Sep 3, 2010.
Because of the inconvenience of a few thousand “anchor babies” a year, the push by congressional Republicans to deny automatic citizenship to the children of illegal immigrants. It’s a push to change the 14th Amendment Constitutional rights. But, there are others who have condemned the calls by Republicans to end birthright citizenship.
Citizenship by birth in America is a simple concept . . . If you are born in the U.S.A., then you are an American citizen just like you and me.
And we should never get rid of that because of the “anchor babies” or “jackpot babies” terms used to refer to a child born in the United States to illegal immigrants or other non-citizens.
RollerCam posted at 2:29 pm on Fri, Sep 3, 2010.
"I think that children aren't at fault for having been born here," Garcia said.
Maybe not. But you sure are, you illegal breeder/thief/cheater/invader.
rrjenn posted at 5:26 pm on Fri, Sep 3, 2010.
Right now in Texas, illegals amount to 60% of all births. Soon they will be the majority and those Texas electoral college votes will flip to democrats that support amnesty and open borders. The simple truth is that if this trend continues, illegals will be electing democratic presidents for the next few hundred years, and Whites will be lucky if they treat us better than we are treating them now. Fact is we are being invaded from the south, and we better start doing something soon unless we want an America that does not resemble us to leave to out children and their children.
CSalafia posted at 9:34 pm on Fri, Sep 3, 2010.
AZ Momma,
Comments like yours, referring to people as "animals" and children as "litter" are disgusting. They are on par with comment Nazis made about the Jews, and the Klan made about African Americans.
Congratulations on being just like them.