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Anchor-baby debate: divisive but necessary
Posted Aug 8, 2010 by Tom Jackson
Updated Aug 8, 2010 at 11:14 AM
The bright, cutting-edge fellows at Power Line address an issue closely associated with my column in Sunday’s Pasco Tribune (”Big money reason for immigration fix”). John Hinderaker has an assortment of disturbing statistics, including this one:
One hospital in Dallas, Parkland Memorial, delivers around 11,000 babies a year to mothers who are non-citizens, a large majority of them illegals. That represents nearly three-quarters of all babies born at Parkland. Around 60,000 babies a year are born in Texas alone to non-citizens. All of them, under current law, enjoy full rights of American citizenship.
This alone is why it was perfectly appropriate for the study by Federation for American Immigration Reform to include the 3.6 million legal residents of illegal immigrants in its finding that America’s porous border policies cost taxpayers at least $100 billion annually (and that state and local governments shoulder 85 percent of that load).
Hinderaker continues:
A substantial majority of Americans favor a revision to birthright citizenship, so naturally the Democrats—as with all issues on which they are being clobbered politically—want to take the issue off the table:
State Rep. Rafael Anchía, D-Dallas, accused Republicans of using the births to generate an explosive election issue.
“They’re pulling the pin on the immigration grenade,” he said. “It’s all about the November elections and continuing to use the immigration issue as a wedge to win votes this fall.”
“Wedge issues,” too, are those on which Democrats lose. The fact is that, contrary to the assumption of most liberals, American citizenship is important. This country needs a rational citizenship system, operating in tandem with a rational immigration system. Today we have neither.
Read the whole thing (and see Michael Ramirez’s insightful cartoon) here.
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