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If you really want to stop illegal immigration ...
fine the corporations. Penalize them $1,000 for every hour they employ an undocumented worker. Try to get that passed through your Republican Congress. It will never happen because the corporations who control the politicans need the cheap labor.
posted by
fwmystic
on November 6, 2005 at 8:46 PM
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We don't need cheap labor that badly.
Don't build a fence along the southern border.. build a wall, Great Wall of China II, to keep out the indigents and drug cartels and criminals. Look what's happening in Europe with the Muslim population. I think everyone ought to be told to go back where they came from, either voluntarily or forcefully!!
posted by
Burly
on November 5, 2005 at 8:06 AM
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It seems to me that allowing these "anchor" babies has created a huge entitlement program and in many ways we've brought this whole debacle on ourselves by enabling illegals to give birth here.
I'm all for a fence that's 20 feet underground and 20 feet above ground, as well as a law that would change this entitlement program. I know that sounds harsh, but it seems to me, with the current system, that we cannot meet the needs of our own people let alone all the illegals.
posted by
JanesOpinion
on November 5, 2005 at 6:43 AM
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Corbin
I am not sure about the law, I saw someone talking about Arizona and Texas where mothers to be would do anything just to get to a hospital just before the birth in order to have the child available for all the benefits of being an American citizen.
I heard the bit about taking measures to expel the parents of the children born here on Hannity and Colmbs* this week. Perhaps I can go back and see who that was from the website. Colmbs* was the one saying it was a punishment to the children.
*I don't know if I am spelling his name correctly.
posted by
Justi
on November 5, 2005 at 6:41 AM
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Justsouno
You comments got me curious about what the law actually is ....I found the following information......
The United States currently grants automatic U.S. citizenship to almost all children born in the United States, regardless of whether the parents are U.S. citizens, legal residents, temporary visitors, or illegal aliens in the United States. Some 200,000 children are born in the United States each year to illegal-alien mothers, according to U.S. Census data. The only exceptions to this automatic granting of citizenship are the children of foreign diplomats stationed in the United States, whose citizenship at birth is governed by international treaty.
"Anchor Babies"
The children born in the United States to illegal-alien mothers are often referred to as "anchor babies." Under current practice, these children are U.S. citizens at birth, simply because they were born on U.S. soil. They are called anchor babies because, as U.S. citizens, they become eligible to sponsor for legal immigration most of their relatives, including their illegal-alien mothers, when they turn 21 years of age, thus becoming the U.S. "anchor" for an extended immigrant family.
While there is no formal policy that forbids DHS from deporting the illegal-alien parents of children born in the U.S., they rarely are actually deported. In some cases, immigration judges make exceptions for the parents on the basis of their U.S.-born children and grant the parents legal status. In many cases, though, immigration officials choose not to initiate removal proceedings against illegal aliens with U.S.-born children, so they simply remain here illegally.
Thus, the U.S.-born children of illegal aliens not only represent additional U.S. population growth, but act as 'anchors' to eventually pull a large number of extended family members into the country legally. In fact, an entire industry has built up around the U.S. system of birthright citizenship. Thousands of pregnant women who are about to deliver come to the United States each year from countries as far away as South Korea and as near as Mexico so that they can give birth on U.S. soil. Some come legally as temporary visitors; others enter illegally. Once the child is born, they get a U.S. birth certificate and passport for the child, and their future link to this country is established and irreversible.
posted by
Corbin_Dallas
on November 5, 2005 at 4:57 AM
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CORBIN
This is great news....and long over due!
posted by
Offy
on November 5, 2005 at 2:31 AM
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Corbin
There are those who want to keep the focus on the children of illegal immigrants. Not an issue. If you are pregnant as, before or after you arrive and the baby is born here then it must have a legal parent here to be an American.
You don't automatically become a felon if you were born to a parent who is or was a felon, even if you were born in the prison.
Alan Combs said this week that it was punishing these children because they could not have what they deserved if they returned to Mexico or whatever country they came from. Well that goes for American Children too. The poor, middle class, and all children have a level of punishment going by this standard except the most advantageous child. That is Socialism send them to France.
Get over it. Send them home. Revamp the welfare, stop work out-sourcing and get this country back on it's feet.
posted by
Justi
on November 4, 2005 at 9:29 PM
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Corbin Dallas
I agree, it would be too good to be true. I would be so inspired if something real was happening to solve this problem.
posted by
BrightIrish
on November 4, 2005 at 7:21 PM
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