The various tea parties are all against "anchor babies". Apparently, anchor babies are generally Mexican and grow up to be democrats so, they need to be nipped in the bud or, in the crib.
Should just being born in America make you an American?
Don't be so quick to say "YES!" If you have children or grandchildren, should they be American citizens just because they were born here????
The differentiation may be that, unlike anchor babies, regular ol' babies of the non-anchor persuasion are born to Americans. What if you had to prove that? What if, like the Mafia, to become a Made American, you had to be able to trace BOTH sides of your family back to the founders?
Yikes!
My father's side of the family has been here since the 1600's. We should own the place but, we drink a bit.... Mom's side got here in like 1902 (?) and my grandpa wasn't even born here! So, was mom an anchor baby?
The various tea parties rarely think things like this all the way through. They are in such a hurry to run absolutely EVERY aspect of our lives ( small government= micromanaged....) that they tend to take some things for granted. If you want to make birthright so special, consider that your birth wasn't necessarily that special either, that a lot of white people might have made the cut, just because they were born here. Do they get *grandfathered* or great-greatgrandfathered, as the case may be? Why should they but, not the Mexicans here now? More imortantly, why?
I'm not at all in favor of illegals. I certainly don't think illegals are a plot by the democrats to fatten their voting rolls. Illegals were brought here by republican corporate interests to build up profits by bringing down wages. Now that they've done that, if the democrats want to make them citizens, how is that any more obscene than what the R's did? How is that any different than people who just showed up here a coupla centuries ago?
Just wondering- it's one of my rights as an American. Right?
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I wonder what would happen if all the illegals were deported? Who's gonna watch those rich babies? Certainly not their parents! Who's gonna mow their giant lawns?
It all stale air. They say one thing, do another. It's the conservative motto.
It would help matters here if you could install a "Like" button for the post.
Just sayin.
@Thingy: America is a land of opportunity. The illegals had the opportunity to serve both parties. And mow a few lawns....
@anonymous: A like button would be nice. I'm just glad you like it the old fashioned way!
I can so relate to this post. We have a similar thing going on here. We have boatloads (roughly one per fortnight) of desperate people coming here from other places - Afghanistan, Iraq etc. These people arrive here illegally but are only 2% of the total illegal immigrant population. 98% of illegals come by air from Britain, USA, Canada and New Zealand. They arrive on visas and just disappear into the population. They are mostly white and can speak English of some sort or another. The 2% are the whipping boy for politicians. They are not white and either can't speak English or do so poorly. What they seem to forget is that we *all* came from somewhere else originally regardless of when.
I came here in '70 but England has been invaded over the centuries by many other cultures - Romans, Danes, French so who know where my forebears came from?
There is a big shit fight going on at the moment because it has been agreed that these 2% should be processed and housed on mainland Australia - the same as the other 98% - and not kept in detention centres (prisons) while they are processed. I can't see why there should be a distinction between the two. If it's OK for the 98% then it should be OK for the others.
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