Lux Lucet

If you look closely, you’ll find irredentism lurking behind many statements in SNL. One of them is found in paragraph 67, where we read:

Family unity also is weakened when the children of immigrants are left unprotected. In the United States, birthright citizenship should be maintained as an important principle in U.S. immigration law. 

One of the most effective irredentist tools in Rome’s toolbox, not only to flood America with illegal aliens but to make it difficult, if not impossible, to deport them, is an oddity in American law that automatically grants citizenship to the children of illegal aliens born in the United States. This is what the bishops mean in the paragraph above when they use the term “birthright citizenship.” Under the current interpretation of the Fourteenth Amendment, children born in the United States to illegal alien parents are United States citizens by virtue of their being born here. Such children are sometimes referred to as “anchor babies” as these American citizen children serve as anchors, both making it harder to deport their illegal alien parents and, when they reach adulthood, enabling them to sponsor their parents as well as other family members back in their home countries to become American citizens.

From time to time, the anchor baby issue comes up in political campaigns, so many people have at least heard of the issue. What likely would surprise many people, however, is the size and cost of the problem. The Epoch Times reports,

According to data from the Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR), the total number of U.S.-born children of illegal aliens in the United States as of June stood at 5.78 million, a population more than two times that of Chicago.[4]

Breitbart reports that according to a study published in 2018 by the Center for Immigration Studies, close to 400,000 anchor babies are born in the United States each year.

Anchor babies are rewarded with birthright American citizenship despite their parents having no legitimate ties to the U.S., many having only recently arrived. Years later, when the child is considered an adult, they can sponsor their parents and foreign relatives for green cards — anchoring their family in the U.S. for generations.[5]

The article notes that, of the approx. 400,000 anchor babies born in the U.S. each year, about 300,000 of them are born to illegal alien parents.

Further, the article reports that the number of anchor babies born in the U.S. each year exceeds the number of births in 49 states. Only California, with about 420,000 total births yearly, exceeds the total number of anchor babies born in America annually.

Another facet of the anchor baby issue is that while illegal aliens are ineligible for welfare, their children because they are American citizens, are eligible.  As The Epoch Times reports, “A dozen states offer Medicaid to all low-income children regardless of immigration status. Such children also have access to various government food and meal programs.”[6]

What is the cost of all this welfare, including the costs associated with indigent illegal alien mothers giving birth in U.S. hospitals? As you might expect, it’s a big number. One old article from NBC News claims, “Each year about 16,000 babies are born at Parkland. The hospital estimates about 70 percent of them are delivered by undocumented mothers.”[7] The story notes that one illegal alien mother’s medical bills ran more than $6,000. That’s just one hospital. On a national level, Breitbart reports, “Every year, American taxpayers are billed about $2.4 billion to pay for the births of illegal aliens.”[8] And this is from a story that ran in 2018, well before the illegal alien flood unleashed on America by the Biden administration and before the massive price inflation that has occurred in the past few years.

To give one example of how Rome uses the anchor baby ploy to prevent the deportation of illegal alien parents, I’ll cite what was a big story a few years ago in my area. A Mexican woman, who was married and a mother of four, who had entered the United States illegally fifteen years previously, was deported after a drawn-out court battle. In a statement issued on April 19, 2017, the Catholic Legal (sic) Immigration Network (CLINIC) wrote, “The result of this hard-nosed and hard-hearted approach to enforcement [of U.S. immigration law] is that her U.S. citizen children must either live without their mother or leave the only home they have known to go a county (sic) they have never even visited….[9]

How did these children of an illegal alien mother receive their U.S. citizenship? As discussed above, they received it under the current interpretation of the Fourteenth Amendment granting U.S. citizenship to children of illegal aliens.[10]

Note also CLINIC’s appeal to pity.[11] We’re told that the decision to deport her was “hard-nosed and hard-hearted,” and the suffering of the children is put forward as one of the reasons. Yes, following their mother to a country they had never visited would present some hardship to the children, but if this were the standard for enforcing laws, no parent could legally be held responsible for any crime, as all criminal punishment, to some extent, creates a hardship for their children.[12]

CLINIC wasn’t the only Catholic organization to get involved in the case. The Cincinnati Archdiocese was busy organizing protest marches and making public statements.[13]

Maribel has made a life in Ohio based on positive contributions to her church and her community. She has no criminal history. She is a lay leader at her parish, whose members are surrounding her with prayers that she be permitted to remain with them and her family. Maribel’s children, ages 14, 12, 10 and 3, are all U.S. citizens. Her 3-year-old daughter has recurring seizures and requires the attention and care of her mother.[14]

One will often find stories in the mainstream media decrying as a myth any notion that America’s anchor baby provision encourages illegal immigration. For example, a 2020 article in The Guardian would have us believe, “The idea that people give birth to stay in the US has no basis in reality.”[15] But anyone with an ounce of knowledge about economics knows full well that when you reward people for doing something, more people do it. When you pay people to break American immigration law, more people will break American immigration law.

If the anchor baby loophole were not an incentive for people to flout American immigration law, then there would be no birth tourism industry. Birth tourism is where pregnant women come to the United States specifically and dishonestly to give birth to an American citizen child. According to a report from Fox News, “A Chinese woman who operated a Southern California business that helped pregnant women in China lie to immigration officials so they could travel to the United States to give birth was sentenced to 10 months in prison Monday for the wide-ranging ‘birth tourism’ scheme.” The story reports that her business charged pregnant women $50,000 for its services.[16] The article further notes, “The [birth tourism] business touted the benefits of giving birth to American-born children, citing free public education and helping their parents immigrate to the U.S. years later.”

The anchor baby issue is a huge irredentist dagger aimed at the heart of the American republic and represents a significant threat to the historic Protestant American nation. The servants of Antichrist know this full well, which is why they included the statement about birthright citizenship in SNL and go into full attack mode anytime anyone dares to challenge it. Let us now examine the misinterpretation of the Fourteenth Amendment that has led to the absurd anchor baby problem and propose a Biblical solution to it.

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[1] “Romanizing America through Illegal Immigration” by Pastor Ralph  Ovadal, 04/10/2006, https://www.pccmonroe.org/romanizing-america-through-illegal-immigration.html, accessed 10/13/2024.

[2] “Immigration Warfare” by Christian J. Pinto, Noise of Thunder Radio 09.27/2023.

[3] Charles Paschal Telesphore Chiniquy, Fifty Years in the Church of Rome (United States: A. Craig, 1889), 554. Google Books, https://www.google.com/books/edition/Fifty_Years_in_the_Church_of_Rome/xKoUAAAAYAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&pg=PA554&printsec=frontcover, accessed 10/13/2024. The quote referenced above is from a letter sent by James Oliver Van de Velde, the Jesuit Bishop of Chicago to Charles Chiniquy in 1852, when Chiniquy was still a Roman Catholic priest. Worth noting, Van de Velde attended Georgetown College (later Georgetown University), a school described by Justin Dewey Fulton as “a Jesuit nest” in his book Washington in the Lap of Rome.  

[4] “Illegal Immigrants With ‘Anchor Babies’ Using More Welfare Than US Citizens: Report” by Naveen Athrappully, The Epoch Times, 12/27/2023, https://www.theepochtimes.com/us/illegal-immigrants-with-anchor-babies-using-up-more-welfare-than-american-citizens-report-5553945?utm_source=google_news_ar&utm_medium=GoogleAds&utm_campaign=reg_news_ar_0404_24_SupremeCourt&utm_term=reg_email&wall=7&gclid=EAIaIQobChMIsva938mMiQMVqTMIBR3GygNPEAAYAiAAEgI3bfD_BwE, accessed 10/13/2024.

[5] “Nearly 400k Anchor Babies Born in 2021, Outpacing U.S. Births in 49 States” by John Binder, 12/31/2021, https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2021/12/31/nearly-400k-anchor-babies-born-in-2021-outpacing-u-s-births-in-49-states/, accessed 10/13/2024.

[6] Ibid.

[7] “Dallas hospital cares for illegal immigrants” by Don Teague, NBC News, 08/03/2006, https://www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna14172601, accessed 10/13/2024.

[8] “Illegal Alien Birth of Anchor Babies Cost U.S. Taxpayers $2.4B Every Year” by John Binder, Breitbart, 10/10/2018, https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2018/10/10/illegal-alien-births-of-anchor-babies-cost-u-s-taxpayers-2-4b-every-year/, accessed 10/13/2024.

[9] “CLINIC decries the cruel deportation of Ohio mother; Countless supporters disregarded by government” 04/19/2017. This document appears no longer to be available online.

[10] One may raise the question, what about the father’s citizenship status? In all the documents I reviewed on this case, including the statement from CLINIC, no reference was made to the father’s citizenship. The statement from CLINIC specifically notes that the children were U.S. citizens. Since no mention of the father’s citizenship was made by the immigration lawyers at CLINIC, the most reasonable assumption is that he, too, was an illegal alien.

[11] The most egregious appeal to pity I witnessed in the coverage of this case was a headline from Latina.com. It appears that this article is no longer online, but the headline read “ICE Set to Deport Law-Abiding Mother of Children with Special Needs Who Escaped Mexican Cartels.” A few things…In the first place, the mother in question broke American immigration law when she illegally entered the country in 2002. Calling her “law-abiding” is propaganda. Second, regarding her special needs children, who is paying for their care? With the semi-socialist economic and political system we have in America, thanks to the Roman Church-State, surley it is the taxpayers. Third, Mexican drug cartels have their power to a large degree because of the loose border policies encouraged by the Antichrist Roman Catholic Church-State.

[12] One of the great evils, according to the Roman Church-State, caused by American immigration law is family separation. In SNL, the bishops complain about the “unjust separation of untold numbers of immigrant families,” a complaint one constantly sees in the media about American immigration law. The Catholic bishops and others who decry family separation never put the blame for the separation on the illegal activities of the parents whose violation of American immigration law was the cause of the separation in the first place. Due to its presence in SNL< it seems likely that the charge of “family separation” originated with the Church-State.

[13] “Archdiocese supports case of Fairfield woman detained by ICE” by Mike Rutledge, 04/06/2017, https://www.journal-news.com/news/local/archdiocese-supports-case-fairfield-woman-detained-ice/qJl3VUfgY6pWuJMBJLudIM/, accessed 10/13/2024.“Archdiocese Decries ICE Removal of Mother of Four” The Catholic Telegraph, 04/06/2017, https://www.thecatholictelegraph.com/archdiocese-decries-ice-removal-of-mother-of-four/40844, accessed 10/13/2024.

[14] “Archdiocese Decries ICE Removal of Mother of Four” The Catholic Telegraph, 04/06/2017, https://www.thecatholictelegraph.com/archdiocese-decries-ice-removal-of-mother-of-four/40844, accessed 10/13/2024.

[15] “ ’Anchor Babies’: the ‘ludicrous’ immigration myth that treats people as pawns” by Alexandra Villarreal, The Guardian, 03/16/2020, https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/mar/16/anchor-babies-the-ludicrous-immigration-myth-that-treats-people-as-pawns, accessed 10/13/2024.

[16] “Chinese woman linked to ‘birth tourism’ scheme gets 10 months in prison” by Louis Casiano, Fox News, 12/16/2019, https://www.foxnews.com/us/chinese-woman-birth-tourism-california-prison-sentence, accessed 10/13/2024.

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