Webloggin » How Much Do Anchor Babies Cost the U.S.?

Anchor babies are pawns of the media and open borders crowd. Also known as “birthright citizenship“, it creates one sob story after another and Accuracy in the Media is attacking it head-on.

The media use young children, even babies, as showpieces, arguing that if the government does not legalize, or grant amnesty to their parents, then these children will be left without mothers and fathers [snip]

An example was a May 20, 2007, article in the Washington Post Style section using a color half-page photo that covered the entire upper fold of the front page with the picture of a young girl crying while being held in her mother’s arms. [snip]

… the Post says her father was “suspected” of being in the U.S. illegally when there is absolutely no doubt he and his wife entered the country illegally and had this child. [snip]

The Post exploits the little girl, Tomasa, and calls her photo “iconic” of the immigration debate, rather than use photos of illegal aliens climbing over border fences, or of illegal alien terrorists that were responsible for planning terrorist attacks here on U.S. soil, or of illegal alien sex predators, or of the illegal aliens that commit crimes here in the U.S. [snip]

… birthright citizenship accounts for more than 380,000 children each year, (read it all here)