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In reply to the discussion: Trump: The 14th Amendment Won’t Hold Up In Court [View all]aint_no_life_nowhere
(21,925 posts)before they could seek permanent residence through that child. U.S. immigration laws could be changed to perpetually prevent family members from petitioning for permanent residence through that child. Maybe the idea that parents and family members could never file for residency in the U.S. to legally be with that child might render unnecessary a constitutional convention. The parents might never come up here knowing they will be permanently barred from immigration. But since they already have to wait until that child is 21, I don't think these so-called "anchor babies" are really anchors. i think this is a fiction and that these children don't make up any significant part of the current immigration problem. I would like to see the statistics.