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Ahhh pretty rebel baby…can you see it, imagine a little anchor tat on his arm…
There is a term that has been being tossed about in the media lately that is not only kind of racist and offensive, its also irritating and yeah, bad taste.
“Anchor Babies”
Really? Seriously? Why?
Now does it happen that people immigrate to other nations and start or grow their families once they are there?
Of course it does.
Is this to create “Anchor babies”? Possibly in some instances, but honestly maybe they just are growing their family?
Maybe some people were immigrating anyway and fell pregnant. I think that if you really took a look at this you’d find the full spectrum of reasons.
Now he’s mad, STOP the Anchor Baby persecution!
If anyone is born in the United States that individual is a citizen, its just the way it is.
This practice actually goes back further than our constitution, and it isn’t going to change and why should it?
When I hear the term “Anchor Baby” I think of the cover of that Van Halen album. It sounds like a little gang of rebel babies doesn’t it?
Babies with little tattoos of anchors on their arms…maybe they could have monogrammed blankies with their logo…special pacifiers with a little anchor hanging off…little motor cycle jackets with a big anchor on the back!
Or that cartoon character on Roger Rabbit, that Baby that smokes a cigar, maybe he is their leader.
“Oh yeah, just cawl me an Ancah Baby again!”
Maybe that cartoon character should run for office, representing all of the “Anchor Babies” out there.
Yeah that’s where my mind goes.
And isn’t it the most hypocritical and ironic thing ever that people like Bobby Jindal and Ted Cruz are out bloviating about “Anchor Babies” when they are both basically AB’s themselves?
Whats REALLY funny is that it probably doesn’t surprise anyone that they aren’t making the connection.
Leave the Babies alone, they don’t choose where their born, don’t go and punish them for decisions their parents made.
And honestly IF the US did do something like this, something insane like eliminate birthright citizenship then what?
What do you do with all the people who will forever be in limbo?
We are legion!
What if wherever their parents are from says nope they were born on your soil they are citizens of your nation?
What if no other country agrees with this sort of thing?
You would end up with a bunch of people in perpetual limbo, a second class of citizen or non citizen.
Even worse than we already have, and the current problem is pretty bad if you ask me.
No child ever should be held responsible for the transgressions of their parents!
Point being it won’t work, shouldn’t happen, won’t ever happen and is MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING!
Tell me what you think, don’t be shy…
It is a serious issue and one that will contribute to the end of the US (as we know it). First, if someone is born on US soil it doesn’t automatically make them a US citizen (the Constitution is very specific about it, though people in government have chosen to follow a specific agenda and disregarded the law). Second, many….many people cross the southern border simply to have a child and then gleefully accept the freebies the government offers – I saw this OFTEN when I lived in Arizona and it should be unacceptable. If someone wants to immigrate to the US legally, I have no issue. But when someone comes here illegally, takes advantage of a giving system AND has no plan to assimilate into the culture, that should not be allowed. If you’ve ever been to Mexico (not the tourist areas, more like in Monterrey, Mexico City, etc.), you will see the future of what the US will become if we continue to disrespect US citizens and choose to “give the farm” away to people who have no respect for us or our laws.
You make some good and valid points. I feel like this particular issue is the wrong one to be focusing on and immigration reform as a whole is what is needed. Even if somehow this was successful and a constitutional amendment could be done, which isn’t going to ever happen our Congress can’t even do basic things like pass a highway bill or a budget, they literally don’t do anything at all! But if it was somehow done I don’t think it would solve the big immigration problems that our country faces and in fact it would create more problems. You would have all sorts of people who would end up in perpetual limbo and then what? What do you do with those who fall through the cracks? Because citizenship is a big deal, its a basic principle, and all other nations pretty much follow the same practice if your born there your a citizen. Maybe Congress could re write laws or policies where you can’t enjoy welfare benefits if your living abroad? I don’t think it is possible to re write social security to prevent people from receiving those benefits abroad because many people retire and move to other countries and collect their SS check, which they should its earned most of the time – I hate it when its referred to an entitlement, my Mother as well as my In Laws are all retired and live on SS and they all worked their asses off for years and paid in. My Father died a year before retirement and never got to collect a dime of what he paid in his entire life so they seriously need to keep their hands off that program unless of course they are making it better and more generous for those who sustained it for the past fifty years and are just now using it. But the baby issue, I just feel like the wrong people are being punished here. Yes it might deter some from doing what you mentioned crossing the border to give birth but will it be that many? If someone is willing to do that and in that position then would they even know that it was an exercise in futility? Also there are layers of other laws everywhere where if a woman is in labor the services, police, hospital etc. are required to give her care and help her. so what if some woman shows up with her water broken they can’t put her on a van and drop her off at the border. Its a complicated issue I just don’t think the babies are the problem, its the entire immigration system. Thanks for the comment, good discussion, thanks for reading my blog! Have a fabulous day, Cheers!