How are so called anchor babies an abuse of the 14th amendment?”
By Frosty Wooldridge and Stephany Gabbard Over 350,000 unlawful immigrant women birth their children within the USA annually. They cost taxpayers billions of dollars for their “jackpot” or “anchor” babies–medical, educational, food and correctional. Those mother become immediate welfare loads for U.S. taxpayers. They create a whole new subclass, not American and not legal. Their arrival stems from criminal activities of their mothers and they cannot be considered American citizens. The debate rages. My commute to work is long fifty miles but it gives me time to reflect. It is 1987 and I am an obstetrical nurse working in the crowded San Fernando Valley. Tonight I drive to my job in “Labor and Delivery,” knowing the scenario before I arrive. Eight labor and delivery nurses will battle through the night in this very busy obstetrical unit. Our patients are 99% pregnant illegal alien women who have broken United States immigration law to have an American citizen child. This will be their
The Fourteenth Amendment: It’s a simple document, a constitutional amendment drafted after the Civil War to assure that newly emancipated black slaves would never be denied citizenship by the States. The drafters had no idea that years later it would be used to make a mockery of our immigration laws. Alan Wall, an American journalist living in Mexico states, “An illegal alien can cross the border, have a baby five minutes later, and that baby is automatically declared a citizen of the USA automatically! The illegal aliens don’t have to go through any legal doors. They are exempt from all that. They are, in fact, rewarded for disobeying U.S. laws by having their children granted automatic citizenship. In addition, the happy family is entitled to welfare benefits. And, illegal alien parents who have children born in the U.S. are seldom deported . That’s why their children are called “anchor babies” – they anchor their families securely in the USA. It doesn’t have to be this way. Most Eur
