> Statistics show that a significant, and rising, number of undocumented immigrants are having children in the United States, but there is mixed evidence that acquiring citizenship for the parents is their goal.[29] According to PolitiFact, the immigration benefits of having a child born in the United States are limited. Citizen children cannot sponsor parents for entry into the country until they are 21 years of age, and if the parent had ever been in the country illegally, they would have to show they had left and not returned for at least ten years ...
> Parents of citizen children who have been in the country for ten years or more can also apply for relief from deportation, though only 4,000 persons a year can receive relief status; as such, according to PolitFact, having a child in order to gain citizenship for the parents is "an extremely long-term, and uncertain, process."
So I imagine you think these people are all coming to the US to have babies, then, what, leaving them here? As orphans? Can you point to the orphan numbers?
Or going home to raise the kid so that 18 years later the now-adult kid will move to the US - a country that's mostly foreign to them, with little support network?
Where are your numbers that this is an actual problem?
How does it compare to the devastating failures of the US health care system and parasite that is the insurance industry?
How does it compare the destruction of the social safety network caused by decades of tax cuts for the wealthy?
You failed in the past election and Trump became president because millions of people disagree with your narrative, no matter how long of a report on hacker news that you write!
Trump got a little less than half of the vote, which means millions of people also agreed with it.
I mean... Trump won in 2016 despite millions more people voting for Hillary Clinton.
When Republicans win, they claim a sweeping mandate from the masses and declare themselves harbingers of a widespread cultural repudiation of progressivism and leftism (even when they lose the popular vote) and when they lose they just claim the other side cheated and everyone agrees with them anyway.
If you don't like the US Constitution, either change it or move to a country without jus soli citizenship.
"Anchor baby" xenophobia is so 20 years ago. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anchor_baby
> Statistics show that a significant, and rising, number of undocumented immigrants are having children in the United States, but there is mixed evidence that acquiring citizenship for the parents is their goal.[29] According to PolitiFact, the immigration benefits of having a child born in the United States are limited. Citizen children cannot sponsor parents for entry into the country until they are 21 years of age, and if the parent had ever been in the country illegally, they would have to show they had left and not returned for at least ten years ...
> Parents of citizen children who have been in the country for ten years or more can also apply for relief from deportation, though only 4,000 persons a year can receive relief status; as such, according to PolitFact, having a child in order to gain citizenship for the parents is "an extremely long-term, and uncertain, process."
So I imagine you think these people are all coming to the US to have babies, then, what, leaving them here? As orphans? Can you point to the orphan numbers?
Or going home to raise the kid so that 18 years later the now-adult kid will move to the US - a country that's mostly foreign to them, with little support network?
Where are your numbers that this is an actual problem?
How does it compare to the devastating failures of the US health care system and parasite that is the insurance industry?
How does it compare the destruction of the social safety network caused by decades of tax cuts for the wealthy?
Tell me why anyone should care all that much?