{"id":3963,"date":"2011-01-17T14:06:51","date_gmt":"2011-01-17T19:06:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thedustininmansociety.com\/blog\/?p=3963"},"modified":"2011-01-17T14:06:51","modified_gmt":"2011-01-17T19:06:51","slug":"just-how-does-an-anchor-baby-anchor-the-illegal-alien-parent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/2011\/01\/17\/just-how-does-an-anchor-baby-anchor-the-illegal-alien-parent\/","title":{"rendered":"Just how does an anchor baby anchor the illegal alien parent?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>David North &#8212; <em>Center for Immigration Studies      <\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Just how does an anchor baby anchor the illegal alien parent?  <\/strong> <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A reader asked: &#8220;Just what is the mechanism that allows an anchor baby to keep his or her illegal alien parents in the U.S.?&#8221; &#8212; 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&#8230;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/cis.org\/north\/anchor-baby-mechanisms\">HERE<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>David North &#8212; Center for Immigration Studies Just how does an anchor baby anchor the illegal alien parent? A reader asked: &#8220;Just what is the mechanism that allows an anchor baby to keep his or her illegal alien parents in the U.S.?&#8221; &#8212; There are four different mechanisms at work here, as my CIS colleague, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3963"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3963"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3963\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3963"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3963"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3963"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}