Illegal Aliens Estimated to Account for 1 in 12 U.S. Births - That's 8+% of all Births on US!! We Pay and Keep Paying

The well written 1941 movie, "Hold Back the Dawn," made a sympathetic case for people waiting years to get entry visas into the U. S. The irony was that the people were waiting in Tijuana, Mexico, but they weren't Mexicans. They were European refugees. One was played by Rosemary DeCamp, who plays a pregnant woman who has years to wait, so she decides to deliberately cross the boarder into the U. S. just before her water breaks (giving a new meaning to wetback). She was even more sympathetic because wanted her baby to be an American, not a Mexican-American or a European-American, and especially not to be a Mexican in America (on the dole)! [Mooserider]

Hold Back the Dawn is a 1941 romantic film in which a Romanian gigolo marries an American woman in Mexico in order to gain entry to the United States, but winds up falling in love with her. It stars Charles Boyer, Olivia de Havilland, Paulette Goddard, Victor Francen, Walter Abel, Curt Bois and Rosemary DeCamp.

The movie was adapted by Charles Brackett and Billy Wilder from the book by Ketti Frings.

Illegal Immigrants Estimated to Account for 1 in 12 U.S. Births - WSJ.com

By MIRIAM JORDAN

One in 12 babies born in the U.S. in 2008 were offspring of illegal immigrants, according to a new study, an estimate that could inflame the debate over birthright citizenship.

Illegal Aliens account for over 4% of the U.S. adult population. However, their babies represented double that number. Over 8+%, of all births inside U.S. in 2008, according to the Pew Hispanic Center's report.

The report, based on Pew's analysis of the Census Bureau's March 2009 Current Population Survey, also found that the lion's share, or 79%, of the 5.1 million children of illegal immigrants residing in the U.S. in 2009 were born in the country and are therefore citizens.

Over 85% of the births to illegal aliens were from Latin America [translation-mostly Mexican].

"Amid a heated national debate over illegal immigration, some Republican politicians have been calling for changes to the Constitution's 14th Amendment, which grants citizenship to "all persons born or naturalized in the United States and subject to the jurisdiction thereof," in order to deny citizenship to children born in the U.S. to unlawful residents.

Late last month, South Carolina Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham announced his support for reconsidering automatic U.S. citizenship for babies born to undocumented immigrants. He said the status quo enticed people to enter the country illegally and have children to qualify for U.S. benefits."

Ann Coulter got to the crux of the 14th Amendment Problem. It was a Blatant Misinterpretation by Justice Brennan in 1982.

The 14th Amendment was added after the Civil War in order to overrule the Supreme Court's Dred Scott decision, which had held that black slaves were not citizens of the United States. The precise purpose of the amendment was to stop sleazy Southern states from denying citizenship rights to newly freed slaves -- many of whom had roots in this country longer than a lot of white people.....

The drafters of the 14th amendment had no intention of conferring citizenship on the children of aliens who happened to be born in the U.S.,,,

The very author of the citizenship clause, Sen. Jacob Howard of Michigan, expressly said: "This will not, of course, include persons born in the United States who are foreigners, aliens, who belong to the families of ambassadors or foreign ministers."

In the 1884 case Elk v. Wilkins, the Supreme Court ruled that the 14th Amendment did not even confer citizenship on Indians -- because they were subject to tribal jurisdiction, not U.S. jurisdiction.

For a hundred years, that was how it stood, with only one case adding the caveat that children born to legal permanent residents of the U.S., gainfully employed, and who were not employed by a foreign government would also be deemed citizens under the 14th Amendment. (United States v. Wong Kim Ark, 1898.)

And then, out of the blue in 1982, Justice Brennan slipped a footnote into his 5-4 opinion in Plyler v. Doe, asserting that "no plausible distinction with respect to Fourteenth Amendment 'jurisdiction' can be drawn between resident aliens whose entry into the United States was lawful, and resident aliens whose entry was unlawful." (Other than the part about one being lawful and the other not.)

Brennan's authority for this lunatic statement was that it appeared in a 1912 book written by Clement L. Bouve. (Yes, the Clement L. Bouve -- the one you've heard so much about over the years.) Bouve was not a senator, not an elected official, certainly not a judge -- just some guy who wrote a book.

So on one hand we have the history, the objective, the author's intent and 100 years of history of the 14th Amendment, which says that the 14th Amendment does not confer citizenship on children born to illegal immigrants.

One could only hope that several states could now bring suit against the Federal Government since the Arizona statute, S.B. 1070, to actual cause enforcement of the law.