The Anchor Baby Situation Is Even Worse Than You Think — Underscoring The Need To End Birthright Citizenship

It is a telltale that no other civilization in the history of the world had anything comparable to the American policy of ‘anchor babies,’ which allow the babies of non-citizens to become American citizens – with all the rights, privileges, and immunities that honorific entails – by dint of birth location alone.

Perhaps if another society, now long gone, did have such a concept, the lack of historical record is testimony to how that type of society inevitably cannibalized itself.

Regrettably, America appears poised to endure a similar fate – unless it obtains the wisdom it needs quickly.

According to a recent study done by the Pew Research Center, a staggering 320,000 babies born in 2023 were to parents who were not in the United States lawfully: in other words, illegal aliens.

While it is true that those existential statistics were reported midway through the Biden administration, at the height of the worst border crisis in American history, where tens of millions of illegals flooded into the nation’s interior, they are indicative of an alarming demographic trend that will sink any society, no matter how tolerant or pluralistic, simply based on the sheer volume of newcomers.

The numbers, since President Trump re-entered office, have stabilized a bit.  Of course, border crossings reached historic lows in 2025.

And for the first time in nearly fifty years, America actually registered net-negative migration: more people left the country than entered.

At the same time, the number of non-Hispanic white births actually increased for the first time in years – including in deep-blue states where, in some cases, they were an outright majority of all new births.

These promising trends suggest a country that has regained some control over its demographic situation, which is far worse in sheer cultural diversity, than any Western country found in the Old World.  But it is not enough.

Birthright citizenship remains a policy on the books.  If and when a Democratic government reclaims power, they will be sure to exploit this egregiously reckless policy to its most extreme degree.

At which point, the demographic situation, now so dire, will have its final nail in the coffin.

The prime impetus behind the Democrats’ strategy, of course, is one party rule.  By allowing in swarms of unvetted foreign migrants, and granting them blanket citizenship, they expect in return for that generosity to have a constituency of loyal Democratic voters who will forever keep them in power (a more insidious interpretation is that the Far Left, whose stranglehold of the establishment Democratic Party becomes ever stronger by the year, wants to unleash as much chaos and stochastic terrorism into the United States – motivated by radical ideology, vengeance, and sheer evil).

President Trump, in part, reversed decades-long trends by cutting into Democratic supermajorities of Hispanic voters, who traditionally vote for the Democratic Party in overwhelming numbers.

But with Trump no longer in the picture, it is doubtful that these Republican trends within the Hispanic community will continue.

It is more likely that such trends will relapse to the way things were before President Trump entered the picture, whose inroads in such communities will likely prove anomalous in Republican politics.

To put a fine point on the matter: even when President Trump was on the ballot, Democrats still won the Hispanic voting bloc by significant majorities – enough to keep a lock on their power grab.

And while it is true that between 2016 and 2024, the President increased his share of that voter bloc to remarkable effect, narrowing the Democratic hegemony from 28% to 46%, a near majority, even at its best, it was still a minority constituency for the Republican Party.

In addition, such momentum was driven almost exclusively by Trump himself being atop the ballot.

Thus, a reversion to the mean is likely in order – especially with the President no longer being up for re-election.

And while Hispanics are not the only significant non-White constituency, they tend to vote for Republicans in higher portions than, say, their Chinese or Indian counterparts.

So, the demographic trends are even worse if you discount Hispanic voters, whether legal or illegal, from the mix, portending a crisis that needs to be fixed with a radical course correction.

There are two straightforward solutions to this problem, one that could be corrected by legislation and the other by a court decision.

As it so happens, there are two initiatives currently on the table that would achieve both.

The Save America Act would protect America’s election systems with voter ID, same day voting, paper ballots, and other election integrity measures.

This would have the effect of institutionally safeguarding America’s electoral systems from the blunt of the demographic crisis unleashed by the Biden years.

And it would formalize by legislative fiat a strong prophylactic that would have more than just a transitory impact on the long-term health of the nation.

By fortifying election systems, it gets to the root cause of the problem.  Protective measures that prevent illegal aliens and other classes of ineligible voters from exploiting the franchise ensure that American citizens rights are preserved and prioritized, guaranteeing that the integrity of America’s electoral system remains intact.

The second measure, which is an issue currently before the Supreme Court, is ending birthright citizenship.

For the first time in generations, the High Court has an opportunity to undo over a century of damage by clarifying in the law that the Fourteenth Amendment was not intended to unilaterally grant citizenship to the children of illegal aliens.

By construing birthright citizenship in this manner, it will reverse the disastrous policy that has wrought endless confusion in American society.

Birthright citizenship, at least in its modern leftist formulation, has resulted in not only the children of illegals becoming citizens, but the illegals themselves – through such policies as blanket amnesty and the anchor baby programs made mainstream under the Obama administration.

These fatal policies have opened the floodgates for the Trojan Horse of foreign infiltration by any and every means, sowing irremediable discord across American society that has shaken the core of American identity.

Again, to recap the original point, no society – no country – has ever lasted long in a state of such constant flux and confusion.

Without a clearcut definition of citizenship, one based on common culture, language, and other important customs like religious practices and shared history, nations – including great empires like Rome – have proven too volatile to persist.

A house divided simply cannot stand for long.  The fact that there is no outlier case in all modern history only proves the rule: cultural homogeneity, enforced through strict border policy and assimilation, is essential for the long-term endurance of the country.

On this matter, the stakes are of utmost urgency because the hour is woefully late.  And hence the necessity, more than ever, for sensible policies like the Save America Act and the cessation to birthright citizenship so that America, founded in the mold of Rome, does not also go the way of Rome.

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