"Anchor Babies" are an Anchor Around All Our Necks

End Birthright Citizenship Now

by MARK KRIKORIAN March 17, 2015 

 Barack Obama makes the case. 

President Obama has clinched the case for ending automatic citizenship for the U.S.-born children of illegal aliens, tourists, and foreign students. 

To the extent that supporters of our current practice have made any coherent arguments at all in response to claims that such children are “anchor babies,” they have noted — correctly — that having a U.S.-born child does not give parents any formal right to stay or work in the United States, so that the “anchor baby” label is inaccurate. They have claimed that automatic citizenship for children was not a magnet for illegal immigration because the parents remained deportable and were, in fact, sometimes deported. 

President Obama has changed all that. 

Thanks to a strategy outlined in a memo by John Morton, the director of Immigration and Customs Enforcement, illegal aliens with U.S.-born children have been effectively exempt from deportation since 2011. 

Read more at: http://www.nationalreview.com/article/415468/end-birthright-citizenship-now-mark-krikorian