For those Americans who look to Europe — the cradle of our American civilization — for guidance, Ireland, in 2004 voted to end automatic citizenship. That was the last member of the European Union to allow pregnant foreigners to gain residence and welfare benefits as a result of just being born there.
by John Reiniers
About every six months the population of the U.S. increases about as much as the population of Tallahassee. Who are these hundreds of thousands of new citizens? They are newborns, children of illegal aliens born in the United States — birthright citizens, “anchor babies” — not illegal aliens. This quirky legal right* then allows the mother’s parents and siblings to remain, and later a whole bunch of their relatives to immigrate legally. This why they are also known as “Jackpot babies.”
Just consider Parkland Memorial Hospital in Dallas, the second busiest maternity ward in the U.S. In 2006, 70 percent of the women giving birth in Parkland were illegal immigrants. That added up to 11,200 babies for which Medicaid kicked in $34.5 million to deliver these babies, the feds another $9.5 million and Dallas taxpayers tossed in $31.3 million. The average illegal patient is 25 years old and giving birth to her second anchor baby. We could also talk about California, but you get the point.
By law, illegal immigrants cannot be denied medical care based on their inability to pay or their immigration status. These women also receive free prenatal care, medication, car seats, bottles, diapers and formula. The U.S. and a few other countries offer citizenship to anyone born on their soil. The United Kingdom and Australia abandoned this practice in the 1980’s after being abused by immigrants for many years.
Why do we allow this to continue? The 14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution reads:
All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the states wherein they reside…It was added to our Constitution right after the Civil War as part of a package of reforms to prevent any more injustices to African Americans, such as states denying citizenship to native born Blacks. The drafters of the” Citizenship clause” made it clear from their debate, that the clause “subject to the jurisdiction thereof” meant that the status of the parents of a child born within the territory of the U.S. determines whether of not that child is eligible for U.S. citizenship.
*While Mr. Reinier correctly addresses the demographic sickness overtaking America, we refute any and all implications that this is a Republican party or Democrat party issue. Both sides have relinquised their oaths of office in favor of allowing our nation to become, as the UN predicts, majority non-white by 2050 if not sooner.