January 17, 2011

Just how does an anchor baby anchor the illegal alien parent?

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David North — Center for Immigration Studies

Just how does an anchor baby anchor the illegal alien parent?

A reader asked: “Just what is the mechanism that allows an anchor baby to keep his or her illegal alien parents in the U.S.?” — There are four different mechanisms at work here, as my CIS colleague, Jon Feere, and I see it: the most obvious, and the least numerically significant, is the right of a 21-year-old citizen to petition for immigrant status for a non-citizen parent…

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