Anchor Babies
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Children born of illegal immigrant parents should be denied rights to United States citizenship. A crucial reason that these “anchor babies” should not receive citizenship is because of population count. As more and more of these kids are born the more people are using Americas resources. Over 500,000 children of illegal immigrants were born on United States soil in 2005 who were legal citizens just because of place of birth.
One person had this to say “The actual number of illegal immigrants living in the United States is far bigger than the government and/or agencies have estimated, and it grows on a daily basisit is much easier to travel to the United States to arrive at any airport and/or cross either the south or north border without the slightest headache” Effectively does this not mean that there are even more anchor babies being born, ultimately resulting in more money and resources being used up?
Another one of the primary reasons citizenship should be denied is that it costs money. The Federation for American Immigration Reform or F.A.I.R. estimates there are currently between 290,000 and 360,000 children born to illegal aliens each year who reside in the United States. In 1994 California paid for about 75,000 deliveries to illegal alien mothers for a cost of $215.2 million. About every birth cost 2,500 dollars and for that year thirty-six percent of Medicare funds went towards these births.
The Urban Institute estimates that the cost of for educating children of illegal immigrants was $3.1 billion in 1993. Estimations had shown, with probable population growth that by the year 2000 that cost would have doubled. The estimate however only included general education needs, and not special education such as English learning classes or classes for the mentally handicapped or colleges. Recent data shows that the cost of anchor baby general education programs is an approximate $7.4 billion