House immigration Hawk Steve King, R-Iowa, argued in a colorful interview that the nation’s unauthorized immigrants should not be legalized because some of them are drug mules.King said in an interview last week with Newsmax that he does not buy the argument that unauthorized immigrants are often stellar students who were brought to the country illegally through no fault of their own.
‘The Birthright Citizenship Act of 2013’ –No more ‘anchor’ babies?
anchor baby (definition): is a pejorative term for a child born in the United States to immigrant parents, who, as an American citizen, supposedly can later facilitate immigration for relatives. (wikipedia)
According to the 14th Amendment, “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.” But [Rep. Steve]King argues that was not meant to include children of undocumented immigrants.
