CITIZENSHIP: Abused by immigrants
Ever since the 1980s, I have believed that birthright citizenship has been taken advantage of and even abused by illegal immigrants. During my medical education and training in Los Angeles during that time, I delivered many a baby, especially at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, and a great percentage of them were to illegal immigrant parents. It was not uncommon to have an illegal immigrant woman cross the border that morning and deliver her baby that same afternoon or evening. Many arrived with maps directly to the medical center handed to them by their “coyote”, and they arrived without any prenatal care. Their babies became the parents’ “anchor babies.”
Then during my medical career, I cared for young adults born to illegal immigrant parents, and many of these American born adults identified themselves as being primarily citizens of their parents’ country of origin. Their allegiance seemed not to be centered on the United States. These individuals were millennials or younger, and they all held a progressive worldview.
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