If this news item had been in a racialist novel, I’d have called it a caricature. Yet it came from a US Customs and Border Patrol (CBP) press release: “Baby Bonanza at Columbus Port of Entry.”
“It is unusual but not unheard of to have a mother deliver a baby at a border port of entry,” it began. “However rarely does that happen twice and almost three times in a matter of hours but that’s exactly what happened at the Columbus port early Thursday morning.”
At 1:25 AM a Mexican ambulance arrived at the border with a woman in labor. Then at 1:57 AM, “[a] pregnant female arrived and requested help because she [sic] 41 weeks pregnant and in labor.” Her baby was born in an American hospital in Deming, New Mexico. Finally, at 4:39 AM, a third woman arrived. “As a CBP officer was requesting assistance,” the release stated, “the woman dropped to the sidewalk and went into delivery.”
The press release does not mention this, but ports of entry are on American soil. Thus, all three newborns are “Americans.” No self-respecting nation would create a law allowing pregnant women to show up to the border at night so their babies could get citizenship. What is the argument in favor of this!? Birthright citizenship must be abolished. ...
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