Topic: Anchor Baby
I wish people would stop using the term Anchor Baby when referring to babies born to Illegal Immigrants from Mexico or any other country, while the parents are living illegally in the United States. These babies are in fact Mexican Citizens who happened to be born in this country. These children do have Dual Citizenship, and when these children reach maturity they have a choice of which country they will choose to be citizens of. But that has absolutely no bearing on the fact that their parents are still Mexican Citizens, unless they have been naturalized and have attained American Citizenship.
My parents were from Canada, and six of my brothers and sisters were born in Canada. My parents moved to the United States when their children were all under the age of 14 years, then my sister Roberta and I were born in the United States. But that did not change the fact that my parents and six of their children were still Canadian Citizens. When I was about 12 years old my parents were naturalized and became American Citizens, and my six older siblings all had to be naturalized as well. Even though all six of them had gotten married to American Citizens that did not make them citizens of the United States automatically.
When I was 20 years old I enlisted in the American Army, and as I was being sworn in, I had to denounce my allegiance to Canada and accept the United States as my country of choice and swear my allegiance to the Government of the United States.
One of my stepsons was born in Japan while his American born natural father was serving in the US Air Force, and his American born mother was living in Japan, but that did not make him or his parents Japanese Citizens. He was born in Japan to American Parents, and when they returned to the United States, they did not have to leave him there, but brought him back as an American.
This is as it should be and not as some people are trying to claim of the Illegal Immigrants from Mexico must leave their American born children here as they are American Citizens and cannot go back to Mexico. That claim is a lie and always will be. The only way is that if one of the parents is a legal American Citizen, then the child born in this country is an American Citizen.
To take that premise to the point of extreme, let us suppose that a pregnant woman was flying from her home in Iceland to visit friends in Australia. And as the plane was flying over the United States she gave birth to her baby, does that make her baby an American Citizen? Will the airplane have to land and let the American Citizen baby off, so its Icelandic Citizen mother can continue on her journey? Or if a pregnant woman was flying over Europe gave birth to triplets, one child over each of the countries of Spain, France, and Germany, would those three babies actually be citizens of those three different countries? Or if a child happened to be born at a time the mother was on a ship in International Waters, does this mean that the child has no citizenship at all?
Of course not, those children are the children of the parents and maintain the citizenship of the country that their parents are citizens of. And so it is with the children born to Mexican parents, no matter where they are born. The woman Elvira Arellano, who is seeking sanctuary in a church in Chicago claiming that we must not deport her because she would have to leave her American born son here is another out and out lie. Her son is a Mexican Citizen, who happened to be born in this country to Mexican parents, and when she is deported he will go with her.
