ScreamingEagle
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If an illegal alien woman has a baby in the U.S. (who is then considered to be a U.S. citizen) what exactly gives her the right to remain in the U.S. ?
None of the following mechanisms seem to bring in a parent legally....
There are four different mechanisms at work here, as my CIS colleague, Jon Feere, and I see it:
Just How Does an Anchor Baby Anchor the Illegal Alien Parent?
None of the following mechanisms seem to bring in a parent legally....
There are four different mechanisms at work here, as my CIS colleague, Jon Feere, and I see it:
- the most obvious, and the least numerically significant, is the right of a 21-year-old citizen to petition for immigrant status for a non-citizen parent. By definition, this cannot happen until at least 21 years have passed.
- under some quite precise circumstances the presence of a U.S.-born child of an illegal alien, or a green card holder in trouble with the law, can cause a judge to grant legal status to an alien who would not get it otherwise.
- much more important is the hidden, undocumented, and uncounted influence of the presence of a U.S.-citizen child in the household of an illegal alien; officials are less likely to deport the parent of such a child than they are to deport an alien who is otherwise similar, but childless.
- the fourth mechanism may be more important than all the rest, and is the least susceptible to counting. This is the perception in the minds of the illegal alien parents, usually mothers, that somehow the presence of a U.S.-born baby will be helpful to parents in immigration proceedings. That thought process probably works, in most instances, without any detailed knowledge of the three mechanisms noted above.
Just How Does an Anchor Baby Anchor the Illegal Alien Parent?