AMERICAN CONSERVATISM IN 2008 AND BEYOND

The Soros - Alinski gang believe in crowning them kings over us instead. They think we need a king, and that we are incapable of taking care of ourselves in an atmosphere of individual responsibility, freedom, and liberty.

I agree.
The difference is I want them to come herre LEGALLY.
You dont seem to care if they are here LEGALLY or not.

OK, we let the children grow up as American citizens.

We allow the parents to keep custody of their children, deport all of them, and the child does NOT become a US citizen.

The choice is up to the parents.

Really? Do non-US-citizens have the right to "choose" of an US-citizen can loose the US-citizenship?

Why are they being rewarded for breaking the law, simply because of where their baby is born?

LOL.. you sure like to make up crap okie.. Or did Rush tell you that whopper.

Elian Gonzales father lived in Cuba. In the US when one parent dies the other gets the minor children unless a court has removed the parental rights. But we wouldn't want you to follow the rule of law, would we okie?

Walter,
Here in the US, if a foreign citizen has a baby, that child is a US citizen.
The parents, here legally or illegally, are allowed to stay in the US because of that baby.

I dont feel they should be allowed to stay.
Why are they being rewarded for breaking the law, simply because of where their baby is born?

Because they tend to vote for democrats.

here's one area i tend to agree with the conservatives, i don't think dropping out of a womb on any particular piece of land gives any special entitlement

Walter,
Here in the US, if a foreign citizen has a baby, that child is a US citizen.
The parents, here legally or illegally, are allowed to stay in the US because of that baby.

Far from "anchoring" their parents to US soil, many children born to undocumented immigrants are seeing them be deported. And for all the rhetoric spewed by the right about the need for tough new legislation to combat the immigrant "invasion," laws governing immigration to the United States have gotten more restrictive in the past fifteen years.

Today, a citizen must be 21 in order to sponsor the green card application of a parent or an immediate relative. The applicant must then show documentation proving that he or she has not been in the United States unlawfully for more than one year. Barring such proof—the primary obstacle most immigrants face—the parent must return to the country of origin for ten years before being allowed to lawfully re-enter the United States and resume the application process. This is commonly referred to as the "touchback rule," explains María Blanco, director of the Earl Warren Institute at the UC, Berkeley, School of Law, and it is among the most insurmountable restrictions placed on the legal naturalization process in the name of "immigration reform" passed in 1996.

It's important to note that having an "anchor baby" won't do much to help a Mexican mom become a U.S. citizen. Because citizen children cannot sponsor their parents for citizenship until they turn 21 -- and because if the parents were ever illegal, they would have to return home for 10 years before applying to come in -- having a baby to secure citizenship for its parents is an extremely long-term, and uncertain, process.

However, having a citizen child can produce some short-term benefits, said Marc Rosenblum, a senior policy analyst for the Migration Policy Institute. Pregnant women and nursing mothers could be eligible for certain benefits under the Women-Infants-Children (WIC) program, which provides food and nutrition vouchers, and their children could enroll in Medicaid, although the undocumented parents could not. Having a child can also help an undocumented parent qualify for relief from deportation, but only 4,000 unauthorized immigrants can receive such status per year, and the alien has to have been in the U.S. for at least 10 years. That means very long odds, Rosenblum said.