Poll at yahoo on anchor babies

[Guest 6.8 AR]

It makes the baby a dual citizen if you so chose. My sister was born in the UK. My parents turned down British citizenship.

I understand your situation, Daniel, and it makes sense.But I'm wondering why it should be the same with a couple in a country, or just a woman, in this country

illegally, giving the baby citizenship status? It's the

legal status of the parent that I think ought to be included

in the baby's citizenship requirements.

[MCSCOTT]

I understand your situation, Daniel, and it makes sense.But I'm wondering why it should be the same with a couple in a country, or just a woman, in this country

illegally, giving the baby citizenship status? It's the

legal status of the parent that I think ought to be included

in the baby's citizenship requirements.

Constitution aside I think most would agree with you, however just like several other situations the Constitution doesn't go into enough detail on the subject, so it leaves it wide open to be abused. This same thing happens with every law out there when someone can find a way around it because of how the law is worded, so these laws become updated in such an event. The same thing should hold true for updating the Constitution once what is written in it starts getting widely abused. Again I realize this could be a threat to our 2A rights as well, but at some point something is going to have to be done to get rid of those that use our Constitution against itself.

[Guest 6.8 AR]

Yeh, I knew it wasn't tossing any new ground and figured

many would agree. I do think the idea of anchor babies

is absurd and needs to be looked at hard.

[Guest PapaB]

The discussion of the 2nd Amendment compared to the 14th just doesn't fit IMHO. The 2nd Amendment acknowledges a right granted us by our Creator. Section 1 of the 14th confers a privelege granted by the Government of the United States. The original intent was to grant citizenship to former slaves, not to provide citizenship to persons illegally invading us. There was no reason, at that time (1868), to believe the Federal Government would, at some future date, fail to protect our land from foriegn invaders. I strongly believe in following the Constitution and the original intent. I do not believe we should just allow the abuse of its intent to stand.

[Glenn]

Close the border. I mean really close the border with a large fence and armed guards and you mostly solve the problem. Plus you create a lot of construction jobs in the process.

Glenn

[eapking]

now apply that to our 2A rights. Gets kind of sticky.

Yep, and I could see a big tit for tat on this.

[jughead]

this old man has to agree with Mike.357

[Dolomite_supafly]

Close the border. I mean really close the border with a large fence and armed guards and you mostly solve the problem. Plus you create a lot of construction jobs in the process.

Glenn

Any fence built is going to be breached in days, if not hours. It takes boots on the ground to do anything.

We already have armed guards, the Border Patrol. Problem is they are unable to do their job. The biggest obstacle is manpower, they do not have enough officers to effectively guard our borders. Even if they did have enough people they would be held back by the current political attitude and punished for enforcing the laws we already have. We have all seen it, officers being charged criminally or sued when they are doing their job too effectively.

As far as anchor babies go, once they are able to be placed on a bus back to Mexico they should go. If the mother is in labor then ship her back immediately before she has the child here. If both parents are here illegally then any babies they have should have the same status regardless of where they were born. If one of the parents is illegal and one is here legally then let baby stay with the legal parent but send the illegal one back to the country of citizenship. If at any point the on who was here legally becomes an illegal then the baby should go back with that parent as well.

Also, I don't want the illegal mother to be able to put the baby up for adoption, we already have enough American children that should be adopted without adding more. As it stands right now too many American kids wind up in the foster care system which has a systemic problem with abuse. Had those children been adopted the children could have been preventing from experiencing a lot of the abuse. Americans seem to feel a need to adopt children from other countries as a means to help. If someone has some sense of need to help the children from another country send money, don't adopt.

All the anchor babies could be prevented if we would just secure the border. We need to hire more and allow the Border Patrol to do their job as effectively as they can. Even if that means a few of the intruders get their feelings hurt over how bad they were treated. Provide the Border Patrol with immunity from prosecution or law suits in all cases except where someone is killed or seriously injured. As a citizen we are protected but illegal aliens should not be afforded the same rights because they are not here legally.

Dolomite

[Glenn]

Any fence built is going to be breached in days, if not hours. It takes boots on the ground to do anything.

We already have armed guards, the Border Patrol. Problem is they are unable to do their job. The biggest obstacle is manpower, they do not have enough officers to effectively guard our borders. Even if they did have enough people they would be held back by the current political attitude and punished for enforcing the laws we already have. We have all seen it, officers being charged criminally or sued when they are doing their job too effectively.

As far as anchor babies go, once they are able to be placed on a bus back to Mexico they should go. If the mother is in labor then ship her back immediately before she has the child here. If both parents are here illegally then any babies they have should have the same status regardless of where they were born. If one of the parents is illegal and one is here legally then let baby stay with the legal parent but send the illegal one back to the country of citizenship. If at any point the on who was here legally becomes an illegal then the baby should go back with that parent as well.

Also, I don't want the illegal mother to be able to put the baby up for adoption, we already have enough American children that should be adopted without adding more. As it stands right now too many American kids wind up in the foster care system which has a systemic problem with abuse. Had those children been adopted the children could have been preventing from experiencing a lot of the abuse. Americans seem to feel a need to adopt children from other countries as a means to help. If someone has some sense of need to help the children from another country send money, don't adopt.

All the anchor babies could be prevented if we would just secure the border. We need to hire more and allow the Border Patrol to do their job as effectively as they can. Even if that means a few of the intruders get their feelings hurt over how bad they were treated. Provide the Border Patrol with immunity from prosecution or law suits in all cases except where someone is killed or seriously injured. As a citizen we are protected but illegal aliens should not be afforded the same rights because they are not here legally.

Dolomite

Guess I should have been more specific. A wall with guards THAT SHOOT

Glenn