The "open border" lobby is actually quite substantial.

Aztlan.net
Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund
Mexica Movement
National Council of La Raza
Delete The Border
Irish Immigration Center
League of Latin American Citizens
La Raza Undia Party – English translation: Unified Race Party
Mexican American Youth Organization
Movimiento Estudiental de Chicanos de Aztlan
Southern Poverty Law Center

Those are just some of the national groups, many exist at state and local levels as well.

The fact that Hispanics represent the largest growing voting block is exactly the reason Washington won't do anything about the issue.
That's some serious sway when it comes to legislation.

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Wouldn't an open border lobby deal more with legal immigration, though?

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mechaphil

no, legal immigration doesn't need a lobby.
La Raza and Aztlan and their ilk approach the issue from the belief the US has no right to stop Hispanic immigration into what they consider Hispanic land.

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I'm gonna go bang my head against the wall now

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mechaphil

WIN.


Has anyone ever considered that if a kid born to illegal parents, becomes a legal citizen, and the parents are not, the parents get deported... so who gets landed with the kid? oh the government... more tax dollars down the drain.

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"If Immigration & Customs Enforcement knows that a single parent (or both parents) is(are) being deported, they give the parent the option of having the children deported with them, at ICE's expense."

Next.

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And thats only if they actually get around to deporting them...

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uh no.

In that scenario, the kid is the reason the parents won't be deported.
Hence the term "anchor baby".

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Thats such bull shit though, just cause you have a Kid in america doesn't make YOU a citizen. Its bull shit... how many people do you honestly think that use having a kid as an excuse for staying here? Its bull shit.

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"and of the State wherein they reside".

Not sure the state wants to that openly discriminate on a group of CITIZENS that blatantly. I'm sure the south had all kinds of contingency plans for integration, but we know how that worked out.

What the hell is that supposed to mean?

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Hockey Night in Buffalo

XC, if I'm not mistaken, both parents can still be deported, but it's the parents' choice whether the kid stays.

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Anytime someone takes a hard-nose approach to immigration some jerk comes along and says "if you're not native american...". I'm sick of hearing it. That was a time before the laws existed.

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Yep. That's the reason why the term 'anchor baby' is so downright stupid. There's the assumption that the parents get a free pass to stay permanently just by popping out offspring in the US. It does make it a little easier to get visas, but hey, that's LEGAL immigration.

Sure, both parent's can be deported they just won't.
It's not worth the legal mess to ICE when there are much easier targets.
Want me to go transcribe the actual sequence of events from my neighbors from El Salvador?

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If you want to, I'd love to read the story, just to add fuel to the fire

I realize it's a PITA, which is why they're not targeted.

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