For the 2010 film, see Anchor Baby (film). Anchor baby is a pejorative term for a child born in the U.S. to a foreign national mother who is not lawfully admitted for permanent residence.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anchor_baby
Babies born to illegal alien mothers within U.S. borders are called anchor babies because under the 1965 immigration Act, they act as an anchor that pulls the illegal alien mother and eventually a host of other relatives into permanent U.S. residency. (Jackpot babies is another term).
http://www.theamericanresistance.com/issues/anchor_babies.html
The 14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution reads in part:  1 All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and the State wherein they reside..
http://www.theamericanresistance.com/issues/anchor_babies.html
Anchor Babies. Issues. The 14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution reads in part: All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and the State wherein they reside..
http://www.theamericanresistance.com/issues/anchor_babies.html
With all that going for it, you would think that the first clause of the 14th Amendment had earned the respect of legislators on both the left and, especially, the right — the same people who extol the plain words of the Constitution and the exceptional nature of American law.
http://content.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,2045617,00.html
The 14th Amendment. This website serves to explain the original intent of the Fourteenth (14th) Amendment to the US Constitution, and how it is currently misinterpreted to give citizenship to children born in the United States of illegal alien parents.
http://www.14thamendment.us/
In January, King introduced a bill in the House of Representatives to exclude the U.S.-born children of undocumented immigrants from the 14th Amendment's guarantee of automatic citizenship. At the same time, state legislators promised to push their own bills to deny those children the benefits of U.S. citizenship.
http://content.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,2045617,00.html
These children, via their birthright citizenship, act as anchor babies and can, upon reaching the age of majority, facilitate bringing their extended family into the US in order to obtain citizenship.
http://www.14thamendment.us/
It's the former, known as birthright citizenship, which is delineated in the 14th Amendment to the Constitution. And as all sorts of public figures have discussed the future of the 14th Amendment this week, the more colloquial -- many say pejorative -- term anchor baby has come up over and over again. But the anchor baby, while potent politically, is a largely mythical idea.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2015/08/20/the-myth-of-the-anchor-baby-deportation-defense/
The 14th Amendment says, All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside..
http://content.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,2045617,00.html
what amendment in the constitution is the anchor babies
The anchor babies are in the fourteenth amendment in the constitution. The 14th Amendment in the constitution is the anchor babies.