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Waht are the citizenship provisions for anchor babies of legal or illegal immigrants in USA?

Why USA and many other countries kept provision for citizenship for anchor babies in immigration laws or in constitution. What are the fundamentals in the United States constitution that invoked passing immigration laws allowing anchor babies to born with US citizenship? What are the basis US citizens want rescinding the provision though? To Hooverted: I regret for the typo, "Waht" instead of "what". But I think this typo does not obscure my straight question. I think you have serious attitude problem or don't understand nuance between incorrect spelling and typo. I know it pointless to argue with you. There are millions decent people out there.

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1. First and foremost! The ability to spell correctly. It's like this. Waht if anyone was allowed into this country with no good writin requirements ? Waht if no one understood the importance of correct spelling? Waht would happen to communications? Waht if everyone could not spell or talk gooder? A lot of waht ifs. Waht do you think?
2. It is a fundamental tenet of American law that anybody born on US soil is a citizen of this country. The United States follows "jus soli", that is, citizenship law that says that anyone born on our soil is a citizen, no matter the nationality of their parents. We are not unique in that regard, most countries in the New World belong to this category (including both Canada and Mexico), as do Eastern Hemisphere countries like Romania, Pakistan, and France. This is the opposite of "jus sanguini", that is, citizenship codes that dictate that citizenship is determined by blood. Most of the countries in that category are located in Europe and Asia.
3. The illegal immigrants will continue to corrupt America. We allow anyone to come in here, pop out babies like machine guns, (bonus check for welfare, which means more money) and allow anyone born here to become automatic U.S. citizens. Think of the U.S. as a small jar. Think of the world as a massive glass container. The marbles represent the people...as long as you try to put more and more in from the large jar (represents the entire world), to the small jar (U.S.), eventually, it will start overflowing. That is what is happening...overpopulation is HUGE right now. The rate we are going at, we won't ever be able to build enough roads, houses, schools, hospitals, etc., the way we are growing. The economy is bashed every single year. I have no idea how much the budget is for illegals, but it has to be billions, even trillions of dollars. They come here, get free food, health care, rob from Social Security, live off of welfare. The more kids they have, the more checks they get, so why not have eight to ten kids? The financial burden is horrible...no telling how many trillions these illegals are costing us yearly. How do we stop this crisis? Well, just take the benefits away. If we didn't have all the FREE things to offer, they wouldn't be coming here. The education...HAVE ALL BOOKS IN ENGLISH. Don't let the illegals get college education...take them back to Mexico if they can't get citizenship (it's not like it's hard in the first place...it may be a long process, but not hard.) The unemployment rates will continue to rise because they come here, don't work or anything, get everything for FREE, so why should they work...they just get everything handed to them in the first place. If they get paid to sit on their butts eating burritos all day instead of working, why not? Bringing more people in to take jobs...BS! If a legal U.S. citizen needs a job bad enough, he/she will do whatever they have to do to get that extra money. If you don't like the answer, don't ask the question.
4. t is a fundamental tenet of American law that anybody born on US soil is a citizen of this country. The United States follows "jus soli", that is, citizenship law that says that anyone born on our soil is a citizen, no matter the nationality of their parents. We are not unique in that regard, most countries in the New World belong to this category (including both Canada and Mexico), as do Eastern Hemisphere countries like Romania, Pakistan, and France. ==================================== This is absolutely hogwash. http://www.americanpatrol.com/REFERENCE/anchorbaby_FAIR.html http://www.theamericanresistance.com/issues/anchor_babies.html http://www.fairus.org/site/PageServer?pagename=iic_immigrationissuecenters4608 http://www.vdare.com/awall/two_sons.htm http://www.house.gov/paul/tst/tst2006/tst100206.htm http://federalistblog.us/mt/articles/14th_dummy_guide.htm http://federalistblog.us/2007/09/revisiting_subject_to_the_jurisdiction.html