$6 Billion a Year for Mexican “Anchor Babies?”
Special Report | By Andy Selepak | June 5, 2007
The practice of birthright citizenship has been all but done away with in the industrial world.
Another major flaw in the Senate immigration bill is the failure to repeal the provision that babies born to illegal aliens in the U.S. get automatic U.S. citizenship. This is known as birthright citizenship.
Birthright citizenship is one of the media's powerful tools to advance the Senate immigration bill. The media use young children, even babies, as showpieces, arguing that if the government does not legalize, or grant amnesty to their parents, then these children will be left without mothers and fathers if their parents are deported. It's one sob story after another.
An example was a May 20, 2007, article in the Washington Post Style section using a color half-page photo that covered the entire upper fold of the front page with the picture of a young girl crying while being held in her mother's arms. The photo ran with the headline "Poster Child." It showed a March 7 photo of 2-year-old Tomasa Mendez, "crying in her mother's arms because her father was suspected of being in the U.S. illegally..." Mendez was born here; her parents were not. Her father was taken into custody by immigration authorities for doing illegal work at a Massachusetts clothing factory that makes backpacks for U.S. military personnel. The implication however was clear--that her father, and perhaps her mother, might be deported, and the poor child would be left behind.
The Post and Illegals
Notice that the Post says her father was "suspected" of being in the U.S. illegally when there is absolutely no doubt he and his wife entered the country illegally and had this child. We can't even expect the basic facts of the story from the Post because they tend to make the parents look bad. And sympathy for illegals is a given at this paper. The Post, of course, is the paper associated with the Philip L. Graham Fund, which provided funds to Casa de Maryland, an illegal alien support group.
The Post exploits the little girl, Tomasa, and calls her photo "iconic" of the immigration debate, rather than use photos of illegal aliens climbing over border fences, or of illegal alien terrorists that were responsible for planning terrorist attacks here on U.S. soil, or of illegal alien sex predators, or of the illegal aliens that commit crimes here in the U.S.
This is the face--a crying girl--that pro-illegal alien supporters and illegal aliens themselves are using to support their cause. The Post even claims that Tomasa has come to "symbolize" the national debate on immigration. According to the Post, "thousands of posters and fliers featuring Tomasa's tearful visage" have been made to influence the public and Congress and that the same photo was used on "placards carried by marchers at immigrant-rights rallies from Denver to New York to Washington."
But Tomasa is not the face of immigrant rights; she is the child of illegal aliens. Tomasa lives in New Bedford, Massachusetts, and on March 6, ICE agents raided a factory there and detained 361 workers that the Post calls "suspected of being in this country illegally," including Tomasa's father, Hector Mendez. The factory that the U.S. Immigration and Custom Enforcement (ICE) raided where 361 suspected illegal aliens were working was Michael Bianco Inc.
This is not a case of innocent until proven guilty. Tomasa's mother Dominga asked the Post to not print her last name, which is different from her husband's, "for fear that authorities would detect her own undocumented status." In other words, she's an illegal, too. Dominga and Hector came to the U.S. from Guatemala six years ago, and had Tomasa on U.S. soil, making her a U.S. citizen. They are responsible for their own plight. They knowingly violated U.S. laws.
A spokesperson for ICE, Pat Reilly, responded to the Post's insinuation that the government is to blame for the girl's predicament. Reilly said, "You should look back to the decision the parents made in coming to this country without legal status."
The Plan
These families knew exactly what they were doing when they came to the U.S. and had a child born on U.S. soil. And we know and understand exactly what they're doing. For illegal immigrants, having a child born in the U.S. becomes the Golden Ticket to staying here in this country. Numbers USA calls these children of illegal alien mothers "anchor babies" because 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.
Although birthright citizenship was never intended to be the law of the land, and is a flawed interpretation of the 14th Amendment, birthright citizenship accounts for more than 380,000 children each year, born to illegal alien mothers that become citizens simply because their mothers gave birth on U.S. soil.
However, even this figure could be low. The Federation for Immigration Reform (FAIR) estimates there are between 287,000 and 363,000 children born to illegal aliens each year. These numbers are based on the crude birth rate of the total foreign-born population (33 births per 1,000) and official estimates of the size of the illegal alien population--between 8.7 and 11 million.
However, the Bear Stearns investment firm and others have concluded that the actual number of illegal aliens in the United States could be as high as 20 million. When using the higher estimate of 20 million illegal immigrants and FAIR's 33 births per 1,000, this would roughly double FAIR's estimate to approximately 574,000 to 726,000 anchor babies born in the U.S. each year.
Having a child born in the U.S. does not prevent the illegal alien mother or father from being deported. But this rarely occurs, especially for the illegal alien mother. Numbers USA reports that "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."
The real solution is for the illegal alien parents to return to their native countries with their children. That avoids the potential or theoretical problem of deportation.
Focusing on another such case, Dimitri Vassilaros of the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review asks, "...is there even one American standing in the way of an alien family leaving intact to return to its country of origin? Deportation threatens unity only when a foreigner would rather be here illegally than back home preserving his family. Many Americans believe in traditional family values. It's too bad more illegals don't."
Illegal aliens have a child in the U.S., according to Professors Peter Schuck and Rogers Smith, because "The present guarantee under American law of automatic birthright citizenship to the children of illegal aliens can operate...as one more incentive to illegal migration and violation by nonimmigrant aliens already here [.] When this attraction is combined with the powerful lure of the expanded entitlements conferred upon citizen children and their families by the modern welfare state, the total incentive effect of birthright citizenship may well become significant."
Exploiting America
The provision is being used by people all over the world. According to Numbers USA, "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." These expectant mothers come either on legal travel visas or illegally across the border, but the purpose is always the same: "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."
To compound this problem, those mothers who illegally enter the U.S. to have their anchor babies have little to no health insurance. But they will not be turned away from hospitals because the law requires that they be treated. All uninsured people, regardless of citizenship, receive medical care in hospital emergency rooms under the Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act of 1985 (EMTALA). The act requires hospitals to treat any patient that enters an emergency room for "emergency care," which can include anything from a cough to drug addiction to a gunshot wound to depression to being HIV-positive. The Act requires emergency rooms to treat anyone that comes in, but does not require patients to pay for their care.
Instead, the costs are passed on to the American taxpayers and those with health insurance through rising premiums. Some hospitals can't afford the care for the illegals.
According to Marjorie Greenfield, MD, on the Dr. Spock website, in 2001 the average cost of having a baby in the U.S. ranged from $6,000 to $8,000 for a normal vaginal delivery and $10,000 to $12,000 for a cesarean birth. If the $8,000 cost is used for 2007 births, and all 380,000 babies born to illegal immigrants in the U.S. all had normal deliveries, this would cost hospitals around the country approximately $3 billion. But if there are 726,000 anchor babies born in the U.S. each year, the cost skyrockets to nearly $6 billion.
And if there are any complications with the pregnancy, or if the child is born prematurely and needs to be admitted into a Neonatal Intensive Care Unit, the cost rises by tens of thousands of dollars.
Illegal alien mothers aren't the only ones benefiting. There are reports that some pregnant Mexicans are entering the U.S. for the sole purpose of giving birth and having the costs paid for by Americans. A survey conducted by the University of California found that of new Hispanic mothers in California border hospitals, 15 percent had crossed the border specifically to give birth.
Misinterpretation
It has been argued that the legal basis for birthright citizenships derives from the 14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. Although the original intent of the 14th Amendment was to give former slaves citizenship after the Civil War including the right to due process, the Amendment has gone on to have far-reaching implications beyond the intent of the writers. The specific part that is being used to justify birthright citizenship comes from Section 1 of the Fourteenth Amendment which states, "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 question though is whether illegal aliens are "subject to the jurisdiction thereof." Illegal aliens do not have the right to vote in federal elections, do not have to register for the draft, and do not pay taxes, unlike American citizens, because they are foreign nationals living within the borders of the United States. However, supporters of birthright citizenship claim that the phrase "subject to the jurisdiction" of the United States has no real meaning and is just another way of saying "born in the United States." For illegal alien supporters, they believe the Fourteenth Amendment requires that any child born on U.S. soil be granted U.S. citizenship.
However, as Numbers USA points out, scholars "have looked to the original Senate debate over the Fourteenth Amendment to determine its meaning. They conclude that the authors of the Fourteenth Amendment did NOT want to grant citizenship to every person who happened to be born on U.S. soil."
Numbers USA concludes that "The jurisdiction requirement was added to the original draft of the Fourteenth Amendment by the Senate after a lengthy and acrimonious debate. In fact, Senator Jacob Merritt Howard of Michigan proposed the addition of the phrase specifically because he wanted to make clear that the simple accident of birth in the United States was not sufficient to justify citizenship...Sen. Howard said that '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 accredited to the Government of the United States, but will include every other class of persons.'"
Even though it is a misinterpretation of a Constitutional amendment passed almost 40 years ago, the Supreme Court has never decided the issue. According to Numbers USA, the closest the Supreme Court has come to ruling on the matter was "a case involving the U.S.-born child of lawful permanent residents in which, of course, it held the child to be a U.S. citizen." Therefore, without a ruling by the Supreme Court, or congressional action to end this practice, the status quo remains and anyone born on U.S. soil even though their mother is not subject to the jurisdiction of the United States will continue to be given citizenship.
Time for Action
The practice of birthright citizenship has been all but done away with in the industrial world. According to the New York Times, in June, 2004, Ireland, which was the last country in the European Union to still grant citizenship to anyone born in the country regardless of where the parents come from, overwhelmingly approved a plan to do away with a constitutional provision granting automatic Irish citizenship to any child born in Ireland. The United Kingdom, which has struggled with a growing Muslim and Southeast Asian population, ended birthright citizenship in 1981. Due to immigration pressures, it restricted birthright citizenship to requiring that one parent be a legal resident.
Rep. Nathan Deal (R-GA) introduced H.R. 1940, the Birthright Citizenship Act of 2007, which would eliminate birthright citizenship for the children born to illegal aliens in the United States by limiting the granting of such citizenship to the children of: U.S. citizens or nationals; lawful permanent resident aliens residing in the United States; and aliens performing active service in the armed forces. On April 19, 2007 the bill was referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary. The bill has only 46 co-sponsors in the U.S. House, listed here.
No "reform" of the immigration system will be complete without the provisions of the Deal bill becoming law. But the media, led by the illegal alien-supporting Washington Post, will fight any such change every step of the way.
Andy Selepak, a writer at Accuracy in Media, is the author of the study, New Evidence of Liberal Media Bias, published as an AIM Report. He can be reached at (JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)
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we are already a third world have you been to miami or south texas why are we still giving citizenship to foreigners with 20 million illegals and all having 4 to 5 children and amnesty aroung the corner with each undocumented want to reunite their families lets see 20 x at least 5 members to each person forget open the borders erase the plan for the wall forget american culture we are dead
Yeah, let them take their kids back to their home countries, right? That way they can get kidnapped and prostituted to AMERICAN TOURISTS as is often the case in some of those countries. Heck, if they’re lucky they might even get smuggled back into the US and sold to some rich pedophile.
Think about it.
Now, do you realize there is a reason some deported parents would rather be away from their AMERICAN children? The crime rate in some of these countries is unbeliveable.
Look at your children as if they had black hair and brown eyes for just a second. What WOULDN’T you do for your kids?
I may have taken a different stance on this a few years ago, but I’ve met enough white trash and have seen so many different places that I realized that there are no bad guys. Just people who won’t give up, and others who can’t learn to share. Honestly, you don’t know #### until you’ve seen the way some of these people live.
Look the US economic right now ( not good at all) There is more than $ 40, 340, 866, 575 ( US DOLLAR) flew to Mexico since 2006 till NOW. And it keeps growth about $1,500 every Second!! They rob this country indeed. While we have been giving them very big support for their family here ( Free baby delivery cost, free food/ milk/ medicine for their babIES)! Soon or later this country will be UNITED STATES of AMEXICO, but the point is not the name of the country, Will this country will have the same wealth/ well being in the future? ( soon). Most of them, has about 4 or five new born babies within 6/ 7 years period of time. They make a baby like a “machine”, to be honest nobody know exactly how many illegal mexican here. Because is no tool can count their total.
Operation Wetback No! Operation Go Back Yes! Sign Our Petition
Hi I am a former Army National Guard soldier and I have a petition at OperationGoBack.com, would your sign my petition? Can you also ask others you know to sign my petition too? I need 2 million legal American to sign my petition. We must reverse this illegal invasion of illegal people into our country!
Can you help me increase that Illegal Exodus…Back to Mexico to an even larger number by signing our petition to send back all illegal alien invaders from our country? Because The SPAM Group will take another bite at the apple of “American Citizenship by any means necessary and Legalize Our Illegals Agenda. (The SPAM Group means The Spanish People Advocacy Movement Group) They are pushing a “The Race” or La Raza” agenda which is against the well being of the legal American citizens. It has been proven that their MAIN agenda is to create through political manipulation and what I call “False Arguments of Illegal Immigration, create a DUAL SPANISH/ENGLISH speaking America. Our founders are turning over in their graves. We can not let this happen. “Now is the time for ALL GOOD MEN to come to the AID of this country!”
Soon Illegal Alien Invaders will be granted AMNESTY (legal) status by DEFAULT! Because Legal Americans DID NOTHING to stop them. Have you ever been summoned to court to answer a charge, but you didn’t show up to defend your self and make your case, so the other party WON BY YOUR DEFAULT? That’s what’s happening now in this country! In just a little while Illegal Alien Invaders will get;
· AMNESTY (Legal Status) By YOUR DEFAULT!
There is only one question that all legal Americans must answer, and answer now. This question is also the MANDATE for the next president of the United States. We must get ready to sit 2 Million plus signatures on his desk, with the answer to this question. Yes the number is high because this issue is that important, and we have 300 Million plus legal people in America:
· Should illegal alien invaders stay here illegally in America and gain LEGAL AMNESTY status by DEFAULT (American’s Inaction) or should they Go Back?
Sign our petition to send illegal alien invaders back, we need 2 Million
Legal Americans to step forth and sign our petition, then ask everyone
you know to sign and ask them to tell their friends and family to sign
our petition too, that means everyone on your contact list.
Why? Because absolutely no one is telling these illegal alien invaders
to Go Back to their country, so they SQUAT illegally in our neighborhoods!
To Sign the Go Back Petitions go here:
http://www.gopetition.com/online/22799.html
http://www.thepetitionsite.com/1/OperationGoBack
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Sure Richie, let’s all sign the petition as long as you promise you will work the land and will wake up each and every morning at 4 to get to the fields!
It is ignorant people like you that are starting riots to deport illegal immigrants without giving them an option to do it the legal way. I understand we need to do something about our Immigration however your suggestion is simply stupid as it wouldn’t solve anything.
My father was in the airforce for 11 years, he served our country and I am a born US Citizen and proud to be one! and I pay my TAXES! I am also Mexican and can understand why “our” people would want to come to America to work! I’m surprised you think those “illegal alien invaders” come and do nothing when they are the ones that do most of the LABOR WORK in the US!
Wake up and smell the coffee, stop this racisim! And why just the “Mexicans”??? we have so many illegal immigrants that are not Mexican, they come from everywhere around the world! The Philipines, Cuba, you name it!
Again, our country needs to come up with a solution to solve this problem but don’t blind your self thinking that by getting rid of all illegals will solve the problem because it WON’T!
Your petition is not the answer to this problem and again, Mexicans shouldn’t be the only one’s being targeted!
there are 50/60 million illegal mexcrements in the usa. go to any walmart in any state.
the repubs sold out this country.
You are racists! None of you are “legal citizens” of America! The only true American citizens are the Native Americans!! We ALL immigrated to this country! I don’t know who you think you are, calling immigrants derogatory names (I’m sure you don’t even know the meaning of that word!)
And to talk about culture! Our culture is dead and has been for decades! Tell me what kind of culture is constant BUY,BUY, BUY? Tell me what kind of culture is listening to an ipod all day, playing video games all day, staring at computer monitors all day, and not knowing where Japan is on a fucking map!??? THAT is who YOU are! You racists pigs who think you are true American Citizens! You are a bunch of dolts and have no idea about the world or anything else besides your chevy trucks and your sky television! You have no identity as an American. You are scum and have no right to judge people in who come to the U.S. who are just trying to earn some money because the governments in their countries are corrupt. They don’t want to live among you motherfuckers and your stupidity, they just want to earn some money and return to their countries.
You are all STUPID RACISTS!
we white scum do not want to pay for illegal spic’s babies. the spics don’t give a #### about the usa , but only the free services they can get. it takes stupid greedy welfare mentality spics to bring babies, 3/5 to a family when this country is broke. look at mexifornia. Mexico doesn’t even care for it’s own. spics bring crime and debt to america.
#### ALL YOU SPICS. GET OUT. GO BACK TO YOUR SHITHOLE COUNTRY.
spics only bring crime and debt to america. their culture of living 10 to a house,illiteracy,large welfare families,etc is not wanted here,
time to deport the welfare spics.
too bad we can’t deport the niggers.
Get rid of all illegals including the brats they had here. I am so sick of our stupid government catering to them. Obama’s aunt has been in the country since 2002 illegally; get her butt out of here too. Ya think our idiot president will deport his aunt? He won’t do a darn thing about illegals because he is one himself and if he orders all them deported then he has to leave too! Get him out of here too. I won’t miss him one bit.
Hey there Sure, how many options do you think the Mexican government would give us if we invaded their country and took from them? ABSOLUTELY NONE! If you want to support all these lazy lying law breaking people that is fine with me but I am sick of seeing them get everything when legal born American citizens can’t get any help when they need it. The Mexicans are targeted because they are the ones who take and take from our government. Asian people come here and work, they don’t collect welfare etc like the Mexicans do.
And What!?; these lazy Mexicans could care less about you, they are just happy that they can get what they want out of hardworking taxpayers and laugh all the way to the bank at all of us idiots that let them take advantage of us.
It’s hard to see a mexican female under 25 that isn’t pregnant.
the welfare anchor baby payments might end soon.
Thanks for the post, really very informative post for all the readers.
we illegals thank the americans for supporting our families during this depression.
Wow. Somehow I’m not surprised that the people damning all the Mexicans to hell can’t use proper grammar or punctuation. As for this site’s claim of “balanced” and “accurate” reporting, there is a subtle twinge of redneck-ery. I do agree that there should be tougher immigration laws regarding automatic citizenship to U.S. born babies, but using derogatory terms doesn’t exactly add credence to your case. I mean the N-word? Jesus, what year is it?
I`m getting really annoyed with people crying “racist” just because some concerned americans want to cut back the number of spics.Do you overemotional bleedin hearts not realize the social and economic impact of all these spics? Being anti-migration is not about being racist or insensitive,its about recognizing the real reason why these spics are here and who,in both american and spic government,is to blame.Any country has the right to have effective migration policies in place.Look at what happens without them.Look at how the african niggers have displaced the white britons in the UK,its appalling.
just look how broke mexifornia is. yet the spics keep on pumping out more welfare babies. they don’t have a clue or give a damn that this whole country might go under.
remember the alamo.
We should not make this a racial issue. The bottom line is that the US can no longer be an open door for anyone in the world to have a child on American soil and be considered an American citizen if at least 1 parent is not a US citizen. Other countries know that their people can come here, have kids for free in our hospitals and automatically make them American citizens. If you lived on the border of Mexico or lived in say Serbia and had the chance to have your child in the US and be an automatic citizen (with medical care paid by the US) would you not do it? Most would. Time to close this ‘loophole’ in how this works.
Ok, I have to start by saying to the people who think this is ok, cause these peoples coountries are so horrible to raise children, tell them “DONT HAVE BABIES!!!!” If its SOOO horrible in your country, use a freaking condom. Don’t expect American’s to foot the bill for your “anchor baby”. Enter the country the way you are supposed to, then start a F-ing family. It makes me so mad that these are the issues in this country. Our economy is so bad as it is, stop adding to our spending on illegal’s.
Umm, people need to learn what they are talking about. Unless you are part of a particular culture you don’t know ####. First of all I am part Asian and we have undesirable people in our culture as well. Some of us who are well off and own our own business (like restaurants) use government assistance to pay for things like food that is served in the restaurants. Yes, a lot of us bust our ass, but we take just like everyone else if we can. It is embarrassing to say and just because a lot more of us are successful it doesn’t make those actions okay. You’d be surprised. Why would my friend’s aunt need housing assistance from the government while she and her husband drive a Lexus? Their daughter, my friend’s cousin drives a BMW. Trust me, there are people of every race who take. I live in California so I know about the issue of illegal immigration and I feel that the laws are plain and simple. You must be here legally or you face deportation. We are overrun with human beings who are here illegally. Not just Mexicans, but Vietnamese, Filipinos, and some Europeans even. Honestly, in this job market sending back all illegal aliens would make sense; it shouldn’t be something we dread. Between all the unemployed Americans and the LEGAL immigrants we have here the unemployment issue would be solved.
Oh, and I understand people have pride in their race, but making stupid comments about other races is uncalled for. Everyone has people in their race who are lazy or who struggle to make a living. It is so easy to generalize about other races to make themselves feel better. It takes someone honest to look at their own race and see where improvements need to be made. Hardly ever hear anyone do that. NO RACE IS PERFECT. NOT EVEN CLOSE.
WOW!!I have never heard so many disgusting things said in the name of patriotism. This should not be an argument about race, however, three-quarters of the arguments agains immigrants, or illegal immigrants are very racially aware. For those people, that means you are racist, and for those who are not racist and share their side, these people are hurting your argument. The only true Americans are the Native Americans, everyone else are descended from immigrants. As for the comments about our president, you uneducated, racist, bigots, he is our president now so get used to it. there are facts that you can look up, so LOOK THEM UP! otherwise, you just sound illiterate. The people who make those racist comments and show their lack of education, make it embarrassing to admit we share the same nationality.Instead of blaming all of your problems on illegals, why don’t you all go to school and get an education? Maybe then you wouldn’t be fighting over the gutter jobs that the illegals seem to be “taking”.
We, about 100, work dayly to make illegal aliens and imployers of illegal aliens lives a living nightmare. Also 20+ year old anchor babies in the jail systems are tageted too. We get results.
This article is very informative and I’ve been saying these things in blogs I’ve written over the last few years, espcially to news orgainzations. I agree, the time for action is now and we need to not only address the enormous burden illegal aliens have on all of us, but the issue of birthrights and citizenship and anchor babies before the future of our children is eroded beyond repair and America turns into a third world country like Mexico.
Illegal aliens have made America the dumping ground for all their illegal alien children, then we have to school them and give them free medical care.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mSe3C5vMafM&NR=1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U_ZnX9JRo5M&NR=1
How can you ILLEGALLY enter this Country and be rewarded with the precious gift of U.S. citizenship for a crime that the ILLEGAL ALIEN has committed by ILLEGALLY trespassing onto this Country. It makes no sense to me.
I for one, am sick and tired of these ILLEGAL ALIENS snubbing their nose at our immigration laws and the many other laws of this Country. If our Federal Government can not ENFORCE our immigration laws, and get these ILLEGAL ALIENS out of this Country, then let the States do it! One way or another, an end has to come to this illegal immigration, and not with AMNESTY! Amnesty will only encourage more ILLEGAL ALIENS to invade our Country and reward those who broke our laws and raped the American taxpayer in many ways…depressing our wages, taking our jobs, overwhelming our schools with their ILLEGAL ALIEN children, driving without a license or car insurance, all the crime from stolen identities to rape, drugs and everything else.
It’s time for ZERO TOLERENCE with these ILLEGAL ALIENS. It’s time for them get out of this Country and back in their own Country where they belong. When we get rid of the ILLEGAL ALIENS, we will get rid of all the problems that go with them. THAT IS A FACT!
You ignorant racists:
- We do pay taxes. Every single time we buy something, and out of every paycheck. Taxes are as unavoidable as death.
- We pay into your social security (But we can never, ever collect)
- We help build your houses, your highways, your shopping malls, your childrens schools.
- We harvest your food.
- We helped build america with our hands too.
Everybody here in an immigrant. You want to call us names and kick us out ?
Dear Mark
You already forgot the most important thing
The people that were here before and built this country got her LEGALLY.
First of all who has the right to say americans are better than anyone?! What gives you the right to say they dont have family values? Can you imagine how hard it would be to leave your home country, family, freinds and life to go somewhere for maybe a year to 10 years. Without seeing anything you cherish most just to send money home so your family could have a half decent life? No you wouldnt know how hard that is because you live in America, a place that its SUPPOSED to be better, where people are free… None of us chose where we were going to be born. And secound, I am SO tiard of people trying to blame illigal aliens for the way america is today, GUESS WHAT WE ALL LIVE HERE. Maybe if some of us dead beats would get up off the couch and claim some responsibility for the shape America is in then hey who knows maybe it would actually get better.
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they want this country and the only way you can have this country its over my dead body fuckin mexicans
Excuse me, Mark (Sept 30). You did not build my house (I know for a fact it was built by Americans), and you did not build all the roads… when my father was a teen he worked construction for two years building roads and bridges before going to college. Today if my son wanted to build roads and bridges he would have to take Spanish classes and compete with illegals who are willing to work a lower wage—not going to happen. And I am not ignorant. My daughter got involved with one of the “anchor babies” mentioned in this article, and now I am the grandfather of a half-mexican baby. The “anchor-baby” father is 19 and refuses to move out of his parents house. He refuses to serve in the military which is his best option to take care of his common-law wife and baby. Do you know why he won’t serve? Because his illegal father doesn’t want him to. See, they need him to stick around for another 2 years and lay low until his 21st birthday so he can sponsor Mom and Dad to finally become citizens. And in case you are wondering, the illegal father does not harvest our food or build our houses either… he washes cars for a dealership. And the illegal mother, she doesn’t work, and also refuses to speak English. Kinda difficult to have a good relationship with my daughter’s “in-laws” when I know they are in this country illegally and are a drain to so many public resources (as well as mine). For what it’s worth, they live near Dallas, and I am a 22 year Air Force veteran born in Illinois.
I just wanted to thank you very much for this enlightening article. I have already bookmarked your site!
it discusts me the ignorance i see on here, wouldnt u do anything you could to get a better life for your child? And I don’t know who you people have been talking to but my son is mexican american, born in Washington state, I am on dissability for a disease in my legs. my wonderfull husband who is from mexico ((Who raised our son and cooked and cleaned when i was at my worst for Two Years!))HE CANNOT GET A GREEN CARD HERE!!! and he has never broken any law! We are married and our son is 5! THEY WILL NOT LET HIM COME!!! IT DOESNT WORK LIKE THAT PEOPLE!!! you sound so ignorant and people like you is the reason the world is going to hell
YOU ARE IN NO WAY PROMISED CITIZENSHIP BECAUSE YOU HAD A BABY HERD YOU STUPID IDIOTS!!! MOST OF THE TIME THE PARENTS ARE SENT HOME WITHOUT THEIR CHILDREN!!!I HAVE A KID WITH A MEXICAN THAT WANTS NOTHING ELSE IN THE WORLD THAN TO WORK TO SUPPORT US (here or in mexico)!!! AND HE CANNOT EVEN GET A GREENCARD EVEN THO WE R MARRIED! THE AMERICAN GOVERNMENT WOULD RATHER PAY ALL MY BILLS AND HEALTH CARE AND RENT FOR ME AND MY SON THAN LET HIS FATHER STAY AND WORK TO SUPPORT US!
WE ARE ALL IMMIGRANTS RETARDS!
How can people hate someone else because of where they were born? I am pregnant with a mexicans child, and I am PROUD to be with him. It does not matter to me that he does not have a card saying he can be here. I would rather be with him ( a man that loves me and his unborn child, does not abuse me physicaly or mentally, and does any job he has to to support me) then be with an abusive, lazy, cheating American!!!! If the american’s in this country would stop blaming mexicans and do something, everything might be better in this country. But no, they would rather blame someone that is working their asses off at jobs that dont pay, that the lazy americans dont want to do. Taxes come out of every paycheck they get, and they get taxed everytime they buy anything. So stop putting blame on others and prove that YOU are worthy enough to be an “american”!!!!!!
May 14 at 2:28 pm | #1 | Link
This article is very informative and I’ve been saying these things in blogs I’ve written over the last few years, espcially to news orgainzations. I agree, the time for action is now and we need to not only address the enormous burden illegal aliens have on all of us, but the issue of birthrights and citizenship and anchor babies before the future of our children is eroded beyond repair and America turns into a third world country like Mexico.