END ANCHOR BABIES NOW!
End “Anchor Babies” NOW! This means, “No new Anchor Babies.” This means retroactively revoke “Anchor Baby” status from 1970 until now. Yes, strip all anchor babies of their ill-gotten citizenship status. Kudos to Nathan Deal and The Right Wing Blog for taking some action now!
Congressman Nathan Deal, a Republican from Georgia, introduced a bill called the Birthright Citizenship Act of 2007, which seeks to end the “anchor baby” scam. From The Chattanooga Times Free Press:
At the crux of the issue is a clause in the 14th Amendment, passed in 1868 after the Civil War with freed slaves in mind, that granted citizenship to “all persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof.”
That last clause — “subject to the jurisdiction thereof” — has many conservatives and border-control activists arguing that the amendment was never intended to apply to illegal immigrants…But several immigrant-rights advocates say Rep. Deal’s bill is “un-American” and unfairly targeting Hispanics.
