{"id":26448,"date":"2020-01-06T12:40:02","date_gmt":"2020-01-06T18:40:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=26448"},"modified":"2020-01-06T12:40:02","modified_gmt":"2020-01-06T18:40:02","slug":"26448","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=26448","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"

Nearly 400K Anchor Babies Born in 2019, Exceeding U.S. Births in 48 States<\/a><\/p>\n

Canada and the U.S<\/a> are the only 2 ‘developed’ nations that have birthright citizenship, and there are only 28 more in world who also do so.<\/p>\n

Close to 400,000 anchor babies were born in the United States in 2019 as an executive order to end birthright citizenship gets kicked down the road for another year by President Donald Trump\u2019s administration.<\/p>\n

Analysis conducted by the Center for Immigration Studies revealed in 2018 that about 300,000 U.S.-born children of illegal aliens are born every year. These children, often referred to as \u201canchor babies,\u201d immediately obtain American citizenship and anchor their illegal or foreign parents in the country.<\/p>\n

In addition, about 72,000 anchor babies are\u00a0born<\/a>\u00a0to\u00a0foreign tourists, foreign visa workers, and foreign students every year \u2014 all of whom obtain immediate American citizenship simply for being born within the parameters of the country.<\/p>\n

Altogether, about 372,000 anchor babies are estimated to have been born last year despite a commitment by Trump to sign an executive order ending the nation\u2019s \u201canchor baby policy\u201d that incentivizes pregnant migrant women to cross the U.S.-Mexico border in the hopes of securing American citizenship for their children.<\/p>\n

This indicates that there were more anchor babies born in 2019 than births in each of the 50 states except California and Texas. California residents deliver about 455,000 babies a year, while Texans deliver about 379,000 babies a year, just slightly more than the total annual number of anchor babies born.<\/p>\n

For example, there were more than 34 times as many anchor babies born nationwide than American children born in the state of Delaware and nearly five times as many anchor babies born nationwide than the American children born in Arizona.<\/p>\n

To date, the U.S. Supreme Court has never explicitly\u00a0ruled<\/a>\u00a0that the U.S.-born children of illegal aliens must be granted automatic American citizenship, and a number of legal scholars\u00a0dispute<\/a>\u00a0the idea.<\/p>\n

Many\u00a0leading conservative\u00a0scholars\u00a0argue<\/a>\u00a0the Citizenship Clause of the 14th Amendment does not provide mandatory birthright citizenship to the U.S.-born children of illegal aliens or noncitizens, as these children are not subject to U.S. jurisdiction as that language was understood when the 14th Amendment was ratified.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Nearly 400K Anchor Babies Born in 2019, Exceeding U.S. Births in 48 States Canada and the U.S are the only 2 ‘developed’ nations that have birthright citizenship, and there are only 28 more in world who also do so. Close to 400,000 anchor babies were born in the United States in 2019 as an executive … Continue reading “”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26448","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-immigration"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26448","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26448"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26448\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26458,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26448\/revisions\/26458"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26448"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26448"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26448"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}