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There's no such thing as an "anchor baby." It's only something that is done by convention at this point, although it is admittedly the current convention. The way it should be done is that if someone comes here and gives birth, we deliver the baby and then deport both the mother and baby. Of course, that would require logic triumphing over emotion, and most people are not that intelligent.
We look to you for guidance ... dazzle us with your constitutional brilliance.
Have I claimed to be a constitutional expert?
Here's what Politifact found:
Birthright citizenship in the United States was first made law by the 14th Amendment of the Constitution, primarily to grant legal status to emancipated slaves. The amendment stipulates that "all persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside." The Supreme Court solidified the Constitution’s authority on this issue in 1898 by ruling that citizenship is a right offered unconditionally to all born on U.S. soil.
The Constitution says they are citizens The only way to change it is through the amendment process.
No, the 14th Amendment does not grant birthright citizenship to children born from illegal aliens. It has merely been a PC policy to deem them so and it needs to be fixed by the Supreme Court re-visiting it and re-interpreting it the way it was meant to be. No amendment would be necessary.
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