Anchor Baby: the gift that keeps on taking

Anchor baby: an·chor ba·by 'a[ng]-k&r 'bA-bE noun Also known as a jackpot baby: a child born in the US to illegal aliens. Refers to the child's role in facilitating "chain migration" under the provisions of the Immigration and Nationality Services Act of 1965. The baby becomes the "anchor" of the chain by which its family may receive benefits from social programs, and may themselves become citizens of the United States. The term also refers to children born to women legally in the US on temporary visas when the child's birth is specifically intended to attain citizenship. This is also known as birth tourism. Anchor babies are an unanticipated and unintended exploitation of the fourteenth amendment.

The fourteenth amendment to the Constitution of the United States was proposed to the legislatures of the several States by the Thirty-ninth Congress, on the 13th of June, 1866. It was declared, in a certificate of the Secretary of State dated July 28, 1868 to have been ratified by the legislatures of 28 of the 37 States.

The section illegal aliens use in their attempt to remain in the country by crossing the border late in their pregnancy to give birth at the expense of American taxpayers is:

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.

No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.

The amendment was originally intended to provide for the guarantee of freedom to the children of freed slaves.

The blatant disregard for the spirit of the fourteenth amendment and the ongoing cost in welfare benefits to these illegal aliens and their offspring is indeed the gift that keeps on giving. To the illegal aliens, that is.

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