Ted Hayes, Ted Hilton, Peter Nunez & Bill Morrow
San Diego – Californians are one step closer to ending the “Anchor Baby” births by illegals throughout the state. In an effort to close ever-expanding social service programs the California Taxpayer Protection Act of 2010, Initiative 09-0010 has begun the signature process.
The Attorney General of California released the last bit of paperwork required to get the “birth tourism” legislation moving forward. Petitioners must now collect approximately 450,000 California registered voter signatures.
At a press conference in front of the County Administration building, Ted Hilton- author of the bill, Bill Morrow-retired California State Senator, Peter Nunez-former United States Attorney and Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Enforcement joined together to inform the residents of California to take the immigration issue into their own hands.
This bill is for “real world citizens,” Morrow said. “The people of California have an opportunity to curb the illegal immigration. Many in California may not have seen the grass lately, but we’ve been seeding our roots.”
According to the Attorney General for the state of California, who prepares the title and summary, the state would deny birth certificates to children born to undocumented parents unless the mother provides a fingerprint and other information to be given to the federal authorities.
Finally, the initiative eliminates benefits for children in child-only CalWORKS cases which are not mandated by federal law.
For those who want reassurance, the public benefit restrictions in this initiative have already passed and are on the books in five states, Colorado, Georgia, Idaho, Oklahoma and Arizona.
The California ballot initiative is closely worded to the law on the books in Oklahoma, says Hilton.
Many in California believe the federal government has dropped the immigration ball over the last 40 years. “In Washington D.C. they have a few nicknames; reform is code word for amnesty,” Nunez explained.
He goes on to say that if Americans allow another amnesty wave to come ashore a new wave of immigrants will head to America – this time the number could be 40 million.
Again Nunez says, “It’s time for the states residents to take care of the illegal immigration problem, the federal, state and local governments have failed.”
As far as immigration containment issues there are three areas that need to be addressed; Border security, workforce enforcement and doling out of public benefits. This ballot initiative addresses the latter, benefits.
The crux of this issue is the “birth tourism.” The state currently pays $400 million per year in ‘normal childbirth,’ according to the state of California Department Health’s latest records. “This doesn’t include the cost of premature births which the Center for Disease Control estimates as 12 percent of all births. The costs to taxpayers for these births and those born with disabilities are over $1 billion more annually,” Hilton said.
According to California State Attorney General office, the initiative would save the taxpayers around $1 billion annually from eliminating the child-only CalWORKS program. Morrow believes the number is much higher. “If you add the costs for ending public benefits, the state will save much more than $1 billion per year.”
Another concerned group that has come out and supports the 2010 ballot initiative are African-Americans.
Ted Hayes who recently ran for congress against Maxine Waters in Los Angeles said, “American black men will stop the birth tourism problem connected to the 14th Amendment.”
“That law was meant for West African slaves, not Latinos crossing the border illegally,” Hayes firmly stated. “The Latinos are taking money from the sweat from our backs; we intend to take it back.”
Nunez concurs, “The 14th Amendment was a way for this country to overcome slavery. Our current national policy doesn’t even allow diplomats in this country to gain citizenship through birth.”
Hayes admits it’s time African-Americans to start fighting for their state and country. “The Latinos want to make this about race. I’ll make this about race. The sponsors of this bill are not racists, they’re Americans and we stand with them.”
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Backed up by fact, Hilton notes in 1987 California’s teenage birth rate was below the national average. One short year later, pre-natal care commenced for illegal aliens. “Four years later that caused the state’s teenage birth rate to grow to twice the national average and the highest of any state,” says Hilton.
According to the State of California, Department of Public Health’s latest birth records show there were 562,157 live births. A staggering 293,276 were born to a mother of Hispanic background.
“The state estimates between 20-25 percent of all births each year are to those here illegally. It is becoming very evident that the parents lack of ability to pay for these births and immediately require public services to care for these children,” Hilton said.
“Our citizen movement will launch a state and national debate to bring an end to “birth tourism” and automatic citizenship in the United States,” Hilton continues.
“The goal to stop automatic citizenship is critical toward reducing crime. A major reason deported criminal illegal aliens return immediately to the country after deportation is because they have left behind children who were born in the U.S.”
Before leaving office former Homeland Security Director, Michael Chertoff reported there were more than two million criminal illegal aliens in the United States.
Other items included in the initiative:
*Requires illegal mother to provide identification with a photograph, fingerprints and fees in person
*Ends all illegal public funded benefits
*Ends prenatal care for illegal aliens
*Terminates all child welfare checks to illegal aliens (some of which are sent out of the country)
For more information on this initiative and other California reform groups see the links located on the side of this story. For further information regarding the California Taxpayer Protection Act and the actual ballot initiative visit taxpayerrevolution.org.
For more stories on this topic: www.examiner.com/x-10317-San-Diego-County-Political-Buzz-Examiner~y2009m5d8-California-Protection-Act-of-2010
Comments
Finally, some commen sense on this issue. I was born and raised in Ca. and illegal immigration is destroyting this state. Someone asked me if I wanted to go to Mexico on vacation and I told they, why bother, California is just anb extenstion of Mexico but without the tourist attractions.
Huge thank you to Ted Hilton, Peter Nunez, Bill Morrow and Tony Dolz for working so hard on this initiative that will soon save California Taxpayers billions of dollars per year by closing the Anchor Baby loophole which has been exploited by Mexico for many years to export their poorest citizens. No Mas! We are taking back out state right now!
'Anchor babies' don't help their parents immigration status. Those kids can't get their parents to stay in the US. Its a red herring issue to keep you afraid of the boogeyman...
Back in the 70's I worked for Calif. Border Patrol check point and remember the many pregnant illegal’s coming to U.S. just to give birth to a U.S. born child. Most already had Calif. medical cards for many listed children for aid & food stamps. I was NOT allowed to take cards or food stamps when I took them back to the Mexican border. For 16 yrs, handle immigration matters for U.S. employers & legal foreign families. Having been on both sides of this immigration issue, I believe this initiative is long overdue and will be glad to be one of the 450,000 California signatures. We should not forget that many of our grandparents legally immigrated to the U.S. and many more are legally coming to U.S. for a better life.
I am an anchor baby, my IRISH mom (surprise) entered pregnant and gave birth to me in Dallas. "Anchor baby" talk is hate speech, denial of benefits to the fetus (pre-natal care) is anti-life. Initiatives to get rid of birthright citizenship threaten to create a second class of non-citizens (like generations of Koreans in Japan)
This is Un-American and shameful.
If something is not done quick Calif. and the entire USA is going to be another Spanish speaking Third World cesspool just like Mexico!
Check your history book, Cali WAS part of Mexico. But I hear your argument...from white people at the country club talking about all these black and brown welfare babies.
The company you keep..
Cali should also not pay for the births if either parent is illegal. The article say "the state would deny birth certificates to children born to undocumented parents unless the mother provides a fingerprint and other information to be given to the federal authorities". Why even give a fingerprint? Before admittance to the hospital, if the mother cannot prove citizenship, she should not even be allowed to enter. Obama and Napolitano have made sure that no immigration laws will be enforced (except at the jails). ICE is not going to do anything with those fingerprints so why even bother??
Denying or setting conditions on birth certificates by state law is a blatantly unconstitutional law that will not withstand any court test. Anyone born in the US is a US citizen according to the US Constitution 14th Amendment. Supporters of this law would fail the citizenship test that legal immigrants take. Go back to school!
LOOOVE IT. Let them Mexicans have their babies in the streets! YAY Peter Nunez!
Keep AMERICA WHITE
STAND BY OUR FLAG!!
"Jim" has it right - having a child born here doesn't give the parents any legal right to remain. The "anchor baby" argument is just a ploy of the right wing to disguise their racism.
They may end up having their anchor babies in the streets? That's too bad. Cut off the jobs, cut off the freebies, end the anchor baby scam and they will leave on their own. Once they are history, the state of California can return to it's former glory.
There is no doubt that the ILLEGAL ALIENS have made America the dunping ground for all their ILLEGAL ALIEN children at the cost to the American taxpayer. This has to stop! I'm glad to see that this may soon end...at least I pray to God it will!
I'm so glad that something is finally being done about these illegal parasites.They've ruined this state and are the main reason why we're now bankrupt.Arizona is also bankrupt because of illegal immigration.Notice how all the states with the highest population of illegal aliens are in the worst financial trouble.We've been warned for years that our nation would become another third world cesspool if we did'nt stop illegal immigration
Having lived through this first hand, I can say that this initiative is based on nothing but misinformation (lies), political ideology, and bigotry. Most programs in place have "safeguards" that basically only give benefits to the baby, because guess what, the baby is an American Citizen! So it deserves the same rights and care as any other baby. That includes Pre-Natal healthcare. When we were illegal,my mom gave birth to my sister and didn't really receive any benefits that weren't directly linked to her. Yet we payed taxes like everyone else. The idea as presented by the proponent that “The Latinos are taking money from the sweat from our backs" is extremely misguided, and very racially motivated. He makes NO distinction from illegal immigrants in his sentence and only mentions an entire ethnic group. I'm offended frankly especially when he continues on to say “The Latinos want to make this about race. I’ll make this about race." We have no room for these ideas in the 21st century
The US is finally getting wise to the anchor baby scheme. We are the only nation left that grants citizenship solely based on "birth on US soil". It's about time. We can end illegal immigration forever with technology and enforcement of our laws. Enough is enough!
I have been a teacher in the adult school system in CA and have encountered students born in the USA, but raised from a young age (2-3 mos.) in Mexico. They then return as adults to claim their "free" education. Of course, the taxpayers here pay for it--and their parents and the students themselves are not paying any tax. It's a scam. A middle way might be to validate birth citizenship to the children of non-legal entrants only after a certain number of years of continuous residence--21 perhaps?
This is good news.. I just hope some liberal Judge won't go against the Peoples will..
robert d:
It is true that abolishing birthright citizenship could lead to a massive population of second-class citizens, but that can be avoided if we force the government to do its job and expel illegal aliens from the country, in which case there won't be anchor babies getting born in the first place.
Jim is wrong. The kids can get their parents legal residence via family reunifaction laws, or chain migration. They can also petition for their brothers and sisters, aunts, uncles, grandpa and grandma, and all the second and third cousins, in other words, the ENTIRE VILLAGE! One anchor baby can bring in dozens of family members without any limit.
The best case is this forces a decision by the Supreme Court to finally rectify the miss application of that 14th admendment which was never intended to offer citizenship to foreign nationals not "under the juristiction". That's why children born of foreign diplomates are not offered citizenship. The writer of the 14th admendment stated clearly it was not intended to offer citizenship to foreigners from other countries, it was for the freed slaves as Ted Hayes has said.
Its about time when is enough ,enough the benefits trough has run dry,the state is over ran
with illegals mostly of Hispanic decent gee whiz. enough already.
The initiative is irrelevant as its unconstitutional.
14th amendment;
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"
Can you explain the difference between the words PERSON and CITIZEN in the paragraph above?
If "illegal aliens" are not "subject to the jurisdiction thereof"...how can they be illegal?
Finally, even if this initiative were to pass, it would immediately be struck down by the federal courts. Even if appealed to the US Supreme Court, you would lose.
Just look at recent US Supreme Court decisions. The court is NOT overturning past
I am an immigrant who used to prepare immigration applications. Although some immigrants are assets to the U.S., we cannot afford millions of foreign-born nationals entering the U.S. every year, to live permenantly here, legally and illegally. In November 2003, a few days after Arnold Schwarzenegger was first elected, I published an article in the SF Chronicle, "Advice on Immigration to the Immigrant Governor-Elect." I warned him that if he wanted to solve California's problems, he must advocate drastic immigration reduction. In 2002 alone, according to government data, welfare for legal immigration families cost about $6 billion, and for illegal families, some $850 million! This is one of the many impacts of population growth!
Should we be surprised that we are having this fiscal crisis?
Open border advocates better wake up. Many of them have lost their jobs due to this budget mess.
There will be a huge outcry to this by the liberal Democrats and reconquista ethnic interest groups, so use are they, to making Americans pay for the children of foreign national illegal aliens. The only relevant question to ask is--what is taking so long to see the insanity of this anchor baby becomes immediate citizen crap.
robert d whats the surprise. Your mom's action was as criminal as all the other foreign nationals WHO NEVER HAD PERMISSION TO ENTER THIS NATION ACCORDING TO ITS IMMIGRATION LAWS. JUST LIKE EVERY NATION HAS IMMIGRATION LAWS, SO DOES THE U.S. Your point is not only irrelevant it's idiotic. It sure as hell doesn't make me feel guilty, your obvious intention. Second class of non-citizens? There parents should have thought of that.
During the debate over the passage of the 14th Amendment, Senator Jacob M. Howard of Michigan, the author of the citizenship clause, described the clause as EXCLUDING not only "Indians", but also “persons born in the United States who are foreigners, aliens, or who belong to the families of ambassadors or foreign ministers.” Senator Howard also stated the word "jurisdiction" meant the United States possessed a “full and complete jurisdiction” over the person described in the amendment. Such meaning precluded citizenship to any person who was beholden, in even the slightest respect, to any sovereignty other than a U.S. state or the federal government.
I have started to notice, unless it's my imagination, that more and more of the American citizenry is getting quite fed-up, sick really, of all the abuse against the American taxpayers, that illegal alien foreign nationals and their enablers, think they have a right to get away with. Things are changing. The rationalizations, the excuses of those who think America is somehow a place where ANYTHING GOES, is ENDING!!!! Too bad it comes at a time that Wall Street criminals have nearly destroyed the nation, but sometimes it takes a catastrophe, unfortunately to finally open the eyes of the citizenry. Also , it't too bad we cannot prosecute those Wall Street Criminals, but Obama is protecting them because, afterall, he owes them for the billion dollars they spent to elect him.
Sunshine, people who support illegal immigration are racially motivated and base their "arguments" on their own race-based principles and agenda.
Chris says:
"The "anchor baby" argument is just a ploy of the right wing to disguise their racism."
People who support amnesty for illegal aliens are the true racists.
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Good work, I hope this passes. The government needs to start taking control of illegal immigration, border security and the magnet of work doled out by shyster employers....or the citizenry will do it for them and it won't be pretty. I'm seriously tired of everything from the taxpayer abuse right on down to the horndog day laborers lusting after any women/girl that moves.
Sunshine - first of all Latino is not a race it is an ethnicity. What race / ethnicity is illegal? Right/left & with the "immigrant activists" - somehow it is always the wingnuts of the "community" that define the agenda, dialog and verbiage. Many legal immigrants do not support illegal immigration including many Hispanics - yet somehow their voices remain in the shadows.
You are offended my Mr. Hayes comment? Many were offended by the millions of people marching in the street demanding rights be given to people that have no right to be here whilst waving the sea of Mexican flags, the chanting, the slogans, the signs in Spanish and the unending labels of racism toward those that advocate for enforcing our immigration laws - equally regardless of race, ethnicity or national origin.
Yes, we should be past this sort of thing. It won't happen until the advocates for illegals stop playing the race card and the hater labeling.
Make every day a day without (illegal) immigrants.
Let me help get the signatures you need
The 14th amendment was passed after the civil war to ensure that blacks were not grandfathered out of their citizenship. It was never meant to enable millions of people (that came here by their own free will in violation of our laws) to drop anchor via the birth canal.
During the ~100 years between our independence and civil war - Mexico gained her independence and dropped her intricate caste system that was based on race and racial mixture. What NEVER happened there is what happened in the USA with the civil rights movement in the 1960.
Instead of addressing their inequitable distribution of wealth based on class and race - Mexico's solution is to expel her poor into this country.
Ted Hays is one of the few people that advocates for addressing this. Instead of hijacking our civil rights train (and displacing those that engineered it) - the solution is to teach others how to use our history to enable the same civil rights changes in theirs.
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This is FANTASTIC news! Let's get it done. These illegal aliens are making America the breeding ground for all their illegal alien children that the American taxpayers pay for, then we have to school it and give it free medical care. Oh, yes, then we have free medical care for the parents (parent). Then some get public housing like obama's aunt, again at taxpayers expense. Look at all the crime and how many illegal aliens are in jails, again at the expense of the American taxpayer.
I believe it is time for all 50 States to pass a State law, like Arizona, Oklahoma, Mississippi, Missouri, South Carolina and a few others. It is time for these ILLEGAL ALIENS to go back to their home Country and get out of this Country. The problems they are causing will not go away until the ILLEGAL ALIENS are out of this Country. I think that is plain to see.
It's time for ZERO TOLERENCE with these ILLEGAL ALIENS. It's time for them to get back to their own country where they belong. If they t
For too many years the 14th Amendment has been misinterpreted to give citizenship to children born in the U.S. of illegal alien parents and it needs to stop.
The 14th Amendment was ratified in 1868 to protect the rights of native-born Black Americans, whose rights were being denied as recently-freed slaves.
In 1866, Senator Jacob Howard clearly spelled out the intent of the 14th Amendment by stating:
"Every person born within the limits of the United States, and subject to their jurisdiction, is by virtue of natural law and national law a citizen of the United States. This will not, of course, include persons born in the United States who are foreigners, aliens, who belong to the families of ambassadors or foreign ministers accredited to the Government of the United States, but will include every other class of persons. It settles the great question of citizenship and removes all doubt as to what persons are or are not citizens of the United States. This has long been a great
Well...I think it's a good idea against illegal immigrants, but anyone who is lawfullly admitted and maintained their status should not get the same. Someone, such an exchange visitor professor, or a full time international student can meet their future "husband/wife" and can get married and have children. In those cases, I would not deny anything, as they were maintaining legal status. However, for illegals, I would. Because they are the ones that makes life hard of a legal immigrant....
Why immigration from Mexico is not the same
as immigration from europe.
Most all advances in science, mathmatics in the last 2 to 3 thousand years were made by europeans and european americans.
The industrial revolution that started in the
U.K. in the 1700's spread to other european
countries and the U.S.
The europeans brought sciences, mathmatics,
and invention to the U.S.
No wonder most of the best universities in
the world are in the U.S.
Most any invention cars, trains, airplanes,
steam engines, gas engines, jet engines,
vacuum tubes, transistors, radio, television,
sewing machines, computers, aspirin, internet, farm machinery.....most anything you
can think of was invented by europeans or
european americans. This is what made the
U.S. an advanced industrialized and wealthy
country.
Scientific advances and inventions from
mexico are few and mostly insignificant.
People in this blog who say it is ok to give
bemefits to anchor babies since they are U.S
citizens don't understand that these benefits
are not free just because they are citizens.
Somebody has to pay for them.
Citizens are expected to pay for the sevices
they use or have insurance that pays.
If all citizen thought they should get free
health care the healthcare system would go broke fast.
I read an article that said Illegal aliens are tired of waiting for AMNESTY. No doubt, no doubt. These parasites are very impatient waiting for so many handouts. My only thought was that AMERICANS ARE TIRED OF WAITING FOR THEM TO BE DEPORTED--OUTTA HERE.
I pray this passes, there is only 1 flag to be waved, the American flag.
We should be prepared to override any veto--and be prrpared to argue this all the way through the Supreme Court
I am the wife of an "illegal" alien. At one point we were saving for the $8000 we were told it would cost to legalize him. After EVerify he lost his job and our savings has dwindled too nothing. We went from staying afloat to running to the public aid office. Since than he hasn't worked, and I'm finding it hard to find work. If he is sent back for 10 year, I don't know what I will do and we don't know where to go for help that will help me keep our family together. I have no roots in any other country and my 2x's great grandfather was a soldier in the Civil War, plus I have native in me, so I cannot "go" anywhere else. I most certainly won't let my kids go to their Dad's country. What about my situation? We need immigration reform, and if amnesty meant he worked sooner I would be so happy. Even if we weren't together I would receive child support. Lastly we get no benefits for my kid's father, and if he makes a $1 that money is still deducted from my family size.
Jennifer that is your problem. You knowingly broke U.S.immigration law, Title 8 Section 1325 anyone transporting, or facilitating the stay of a foreign national illegally in this nation is breaking the law. I have no sympathy for you at all. The trouble with the U.S. today is, that everyone wants the law to be put on hold, so their own personal problems are taken care of. It does'nt work that way--in any nation. If you love your husband, live with him in Mexico.
So where is the petition for this initiative? I've looked for an on-line petition and can't find anything. Where can we sign it
Go to taxpayerrevolution.org They have all the information and petitions. Good luck!
i have been saying this for years but know one would believe me i will do my best to get the word out to any one who will listen power to the people lets stop the traitors who are ruining this great nation please help thank you.
I am so glad I read this today, it made my day. I am going to sign-up now and tell my English Speaking friends to sign it. Also, don't forget to wash your own car, mow your own lawn, and clean your own house!
I am so glad that someone has a large pair to help the Americans. I am a gym teacher, and I love all of my students, our school board is requiring teachers and students to learn Spainish. What is wrong with tis picture? I have been to many, many countries and none of the countries had press one for English.
When I take my grandmother to the supermarket, I have to help buy her food. She has applied for food stamps and was turned down, she worked for 66 years and can not get help..Mexican are throwing out food stamps like candy
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