Archiving the “strange death of Europe,” as Douglas Murray put it, and the West more broadly, at the hands of the neoliberal technocracy.
Holy anchor baby, Batman!
Unlike the vast majority of sovereign nations of Earth, the United States allows, via a principle called jus soli (“right of soil”), migrants born within American territories, even without any meaningful connection to the United States or a parent who is an American citizen, to claim citizenship.
Via National Archives (emphasis added):
AMENDMENT XIV
Section 1.
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. No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.
We have the 14th Amendment, originally intended to apply to freed slaves post-Civil War, to thank for the soon-to-be-reliable-Democrat-voter Jamaican anchor baby below — a miracle anchor baby, born 30,000 feet in the air in the friendly skies somewhere over the Caribbean — as well as untold millions of fellow anchor babies for whom there exists no available legal mechanism of removal.
Via The Independent (emphasis added):
A woman has given birth on a flight traveling from Jamaica to New York City - but whether the baby will be a U.S. citizen remains an unanswered question…
A baby born over U.S. airspace is automatically granted U.S. citizenship but the Caribbean Airline flight’s precise location at the moment of birth has not been confirmed…
Regarding the child’s legal status, Miami-based immigration attorney Juan Carlos Rivera told The Independent: "The key legal principle here is jus soli, 'right of the soil,' which is embedded in the 14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.
“U.S. airspace is considered U.S. territory, so if this baby was born while the plane was within 12 nautical miles of the U.S. coastline, she or he would automatically qualify for U.S. citizenship by birthright. The mother wouldn't need to 'claim' it if the birth occurred in U.S. airspace — citizenship attaches at the moment of birth."
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Similarly, the Chinese, being an industrious people, have turned the anchor baby loophole into a booming industry, with upward of a thousand Chinese companies ferrying millions of pregnant Chinese women to the Northern Mariana Islands to be born in local hospitals and claim their birthright, U.S. citizenship.
Via New York Post (emphasis added):
The Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands (CNMI), a US territory northeast of Guam in the Pacific Ocean, has been flooded with so-called “birth tourists” since 2009 when then-president Barack Obama introduced a visa-waiver program for Chinese nationals.
China-watchers estimate about 1,000 companies offer birth tourism to the Northern Mariana Islands, other US overseas territories and even the US mainland. They claim a gob-smacking 1.5 million American babies are being raised in China by Chinese parents who’ve participated in birth tourism…
A good chunk of those kids will reach voting age this decade. At age 21 they will be eligible to petition for green cards for parents and siblings, who can then bring along other family members to live in the US.
“It’s not just the voting aspect, it’s the chain migration laws,” said Chmielenski. “If their family could afford the prices charged for this birth tourism scheme, there’s a good chance they can afford a residence in the US. That raises concerns. Most wealthy Chinese nationals tend to have connections to the government there.”
How many of these CCP babies will go on to spy on their adoptive American government for the motherland?
The answer certainly isn’t zero.
