As more and more Third World immigrants pour across our borders inAmerica and Europe, they will unquestionably change our traditions, ourcultures, and even our forms of government. –EAU
by Roy Beck, Numbers USA
Maternity tourism is just the beginning of the silliness ofbirthright citizenship that goes to the babies of foreign students,temporary foreign workers, international travelers–and the millionswho break the law to criminally enter this country.
All told, federal law (not the Constitution) gives citizenship toan estimated minimum 400,000 babies each year who don’t have even oneparent who is a U.S. citizen or permanent legal immigrant. This is ahuge impediment to efforts to stabilize U.S. population to allow forenvironmental sustainability. And it is a great incentive for moreillegal immigration.
Each of these babies becomes an anchor who retards deportation ofunlawfully present parents–and who eventually will be an anchor forentire families and villages as chain migration leads to theimmigration of grandparents, aunts, uncles, and cousins.
Birthright citizenship is an antiquated practice thathas been abandoned by nearly all wealthy nations and emerging nations(recently India and Indonesia) and by the majority of poor nations.
The Supreme Court has ruled only that the Constitution requiresbabies of legal immigrants be U.S. citizens. It is time to join themodern world, pass H.R. 1868 (Birthright Citizenship Act of 2009), andlimit citizenship to babies who have at least one parent who is acitizen or legal immigrant.
ROY BECK is Founder & CEO of NumbersUSA