Everyone’s talking about anchor babies. Ann Coulter. John Boehner. Texans.

Anchor babies are the children born to illegal immigrants on U.S. soil, and therefore United States citizens, entitled to all of the rights and privileges thereof. Education, health care, and other expensive stuff.

The debate of birthright citizenship comes out of the 14th amendment, which reads (in part):

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.

The point of it was to grant citizenship to newly freed slaves, but over the last 150ish years, it’s morphed into an invitation for about-to-be mamas to circumvent a messed up immigration system and plant some baby leg roots in the United States.

I do not have an opinion on whether or not birthright citizenship is Constitutional. But there’s no denying that it’s a drain on our resources.

I propose that we stop fighting about the 14th amendment, strengthen border security, and end welfare.

There. Anchor baby *problem* solved.

See how easy that was?