Family Disunification

Posted By James Fulford On 12th March 2007 @ 10:33
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The Michael Bianco raids mentioned by Bryanna on March 7th have produced a large number of news stories about “families being separated.” Apparently the illegals being deported are abandoning their anchor babies in the United States, and blaming US immigration law for the abandonment. The Associated Press writes that

Toddlers stranded at day care centers or handed over to ill-equipped relatives. Siblings suddenly left in charge of younger brothers and sisters.

When illegal-immigrant parents are swept up in raids on homes and workplaces, the children are sometimes left behind - a complication that underscores the difficulty in enforcing immigration laws against people who have put down roots and begun raising families in the U.S.

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Birthright Citizenship
Posted By James Fulford On 12th March 2007 @ 18:15
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In my post on Family Disunification, I meant to point out that, of course, there’s no reason why the US Government has to grant automatic citizenship to the children of illegal immigrants. Most countries don’t do this, and the Constitution does not require it.

Howard Sutherland pointed out years ago that the Fourteenth Amendment wasn’t designed for this purpose, and that Congress could stop this automatic citizenship by legislation, if it wanted to.