good article on anchor babies

[CosmicCowboy]

According to Center for Immigration Studies (CIS) legal policy analyst Jon Feere, who testified before the House Judiciary Committee’s Subcommittee on Immigration and Border Security in April, between 350,000 and 400,000 children are born annually to an illegal-alien mother residing in the United States — as many as one in ten births nationwide. As of 2010, four out of five children of illegal aliens residing in the U.S. were born here — some 4 million kids. Reporting that finding, the Pew Research Center noted that, while illegal immigrants make up about 4 percent of the adult population, “because they have high birthrates, their children make up a much larger share of both the newborn population (8 percent) and the child population (7 percent) in this country.” The cost of this is not negligible. Inflation-adjusted figures from the U.S. Department of Agriculture projected that a child born in 2013 would cost his parents $304,480 from birth to his eighteenth birthday. Given that illegal-alien households are normally low-income households (three out of five illegal aliens and their U.S.-born children live at or near the poverty line), one would expect that a significant portion of that cost will fall on the government. And that’s exactly what‘s happening. According to CIS, 71 percent of illegal-alien headed households with children received some sort of welfare in 2009, compared with 39 percent of native-headed houses with children. Illegal immigrants generally access welfare programs through their U.S.-born children, to whom government assistance is guaranteed. Additionally, U.S.-born children of illegal aliens are entitled to American public schools, health care, and more, even though illegal-alien households rarely pay taxes.

Read more at: http://www.nationalreview.com/article/422921/birthright-citizenship-economic-costs-incentives

[ChumpDumper]

Worked for Marco Rubio's family.

[hater]

Bullshit on illegal aliens rarely pay taxes. All my illegal workers pay their taxes. I make it a requirement for my firm.

Oh and even thou a lot of them have kids born here it doesn't help their parents case at all. Their parents are still illegal.

This anchor baby bullshit is a myth and political hype. Dont believe the hype

[ChumpDumper]

illegal-alien households rarely pay taxesI'm calling bullshit there.

EDIT: I'm not the first.

[CosmicCowboy]

I'm calling bullshit there.

EDIT: I'm not the first.

We know they pay sales tax in a sales tax state.

[ChumpDumper]

We know they pay sales tax in a sales tax state.That isn't rare.

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Most illegals also pay social security (and the employer match) yet never will be able to claim benefits.

[CosmicCowboy]

I didn't write the fucking article. Nit picking one word of one sentence out of a multi thousand word article is typically chumpish.

[boutons_deux]

According to a Pew Research study (http://www.pewhispanic.org/2010/08/11/unauthorized-immigrants-and-their-us-born-children/) released in 2010, about 340,000 of the 4.3 million babies born in the US in 2008 were the offspring of undocumented parents.

well over 80 percent of the births in question were the children of parents who had been in the United States for more than a year.

Nor do these children actually provide any legal “anchor.” Under existing law, the birth of a child in the US does not give parents the right to stay in the country until that child reaches the age of majority. That’s 21.

Even then, the process isn’t easy. A child who reaches 21 can then apply for a visa or green card for their parent to reside in America. That will be approved only if the parents can prove they’ve been living legally outside the US. If they’ve been in the shadows for decade, raising their kids, they’re required to wait longer. If the parent has lived illegally in the US for a year or greater, they can’t reenter the US for a decade. So the total wait time to a green card for the undocumented parent of a child born in the US can stretch up to 31 years.

“It’s not a practical immigration strategy,”

There’s evidence that plenty of these parents are indeed being deported, however. In the first half of 2011, US officials removed more than 46,000 parents of US-born children from the country,

For that 2011 time frame, at least 5,100 children whose parents had been deported were living in foster care, according to this data.

Groups that support tighter immigration restrictions say that Mexican adults may believe that having US citizen children will anchor them in US society, whether that is actually the case or not.

“This is the perception in the minds of the illegal alien parents, usually mothers, that somehow the presence of a US-born baby will be helpful to parents in immigration proceedings,

the biggest draw for illegal immigration is probably jobs, not birthright citizenship.

http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Politics/Decoder/2015/0821/GOP-hopefuls-decry-anchor-baby-influx.-Phantom-menace-video

[CosmicCowboy]

Most illegals also pay social security (and the employer match) yet never will be able to claim benefits.

MOST? Proof of your claim? You have to have a valid SS# to pay SS.

[ChumpDumper]

I didn't write the fucking article. Nit picking one word of one sentence out of a multi thousand word article is typically chumpish.It's a critical error that destroys any credibility the author and anyone trying to pimp his article might want to have.

Illegals pay taxes all the time.

The article you posted is not a good article.

[ChumpDumper]

MOST? Proof of your claim? You have to have a valid SS# to pay SS.RARELY? Proof of his claim?

[boutons_deux]

White people were America’s real “anchor babies”: A history lesson for the Republican Party


http://www.salon.com/2015/08/21/white_people_were_americas_real_anchor_babies_a_hi story_lesson_for_the_republican_party/

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what is with are the articles on 2010 research this is 2015

[m>s]

Good to see people are waking up to the illegal alien problem. Hail Victory brothers, victory is nigh. We whites we are all related, we are all brothers and sisters, and we are the inheritors of the whole Earth.

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this will warm CC's black heart

Some Counties In Texas Actually Are Denying Birthright Citizenship

GOP candidates eager to end birthright citizenship need look no further than Texas, where local country registrars have started to make that situation a reality (http://www.latimes.com/nation/immigration/la-na-texas-immigrant-birth-20150718-story.html#page=1) for hundreds of immigrant parents living along the border.

In the Lone Star state, undocumented immigrants say they’ve been denied birth certificates for their children (http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/18/us/illegal-immigrant-birth-certificates.html) since 2013. Without that official document, it’s difficult for them to enroll their child in other programs, like Medicaid or day care, or even get baptized (http://america.aljazeera.com/articles/2015/8/19/migrants-sue-texas-for-denying-birth-certificates.html).

Since many undocumented immigrants do not have legal identification documents — like a driver’s license or a green card — in the past they have been able to show two secondary forms of identification to obtain their child’s birth certificate from the Department of State Health Services (DSHS). One of those documents is a Mexican matrícula consular identification card.

But Texas county registers are starting to change that. In Texas’ second-largest (https://www.texastribune.org/2015/08/05/dallas-county-rule-change-fuels-birth-certificate-/) county, the Dallas County clerk’s office announced on its website (http://www.dallascounty.org/department/countyclerk/birthcertificates.php) that as of June 1, its county registrars will “no longer accept the Mexican Matrícula Consular Card as verification of identity for purchase of birth certificates or for obtaining confidential records.”

Other counties already had similar policies (https://www.texastribune.org/2015/08/05/dallas-county-rule-change-fuels-birth-certificate-/) in place, but didn’t strictly enforce them until 2013 — when Dee Porter, then chief operating officer of DSHS, told Rosalba Ojeda, the former consul general of Mexico in Austin, that the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency wouldn’t accept the matrícula identification as a valid form of identification.

http://thinkprogress.org/immigration/2015/09/18/3702996/texas-immigrant-birth-certificates/