Anchor babies aweigh!

These two articles cover the 14th Amendment/Anchor Baby issue quitewell. Both are from The View From 1776.

Illegal Citizenship

"It must also be noted that the 14th Amendment has been the vehicle, or entry point, for a colossal expansion of Federal powers and for eliminating the originally intended independent spheres of sovereignty reserved to States and local governments by the 9th and 10th Amendments of the Bill of Rights. It is of no small importance that the 14th Amendment also contains the “due Process” and “equal protection” clauses upon which liberal-socialists have constructed such bizarre extensions of Constitutional “rights” as the socialist redistributive dogma of affirmative action.

Looking at the question cynically, one may also note that liberal-socialists have aggressively pursued ways to enfranchise formerly excluded categories such as convicts and sought to compel immigration authorities to short-cut naturalization citizenship procedures in order to enfranchise several million ineligible voters prior to a Presidential election. Presumably those newly enfranchised persons would be inclined to vote for liberal-socialist candidates.

None of that, however, has any bearing on Constitutional law as established in 1898 by a decision of the Supreme Court declaring flatly that children born in the United States of other than diplomatically-posted parents are citizens."

Illegal Citizenship Revisited

"The question remains: Is the Constitution to be regarded as subordinate to the UN’s Declaration of Human Rights, as a suicide pact interpreted by Senator Kerry’s foreign policy “sensitivity”? Or shall we reassert the consensus of 1776 and 1787 that the United States must be a unified nation governed by its heritage of English constitutionalism and Judeo-Christian morality?"