PrintAugust 14, 2010
What a Difference Five Years Make
Five years ago, my family took a vacation to Niagara Falls. On our return across the Canadian border, U.S. Immigration officials detained us for several tense hours because we happened to be the unlucky renters of a car that matched some sort of suspect list.The same year Immigration officers were busily occupied with the travel risk of the Simpson family, hundreds of thousands of babies were born in hospitals all across the U.S. to parents who gained entry in the country illegally (obviously not driving Hertz rental cars). The parents' reward, other than a beautiful newborn: shiny new made-in-the-USA birth certificates. A 2005 medical journal contained a typical story, recounted by Ann Coulter in her recent column "Justice Brennan's Footnote Gave us Anchor Babies," of an extended illegal immigrant family incurring extensive subsidized medical services and living on welfare, using birth certificates as the ticket, in now-bankrupt Stockton, California.The year 2005 was also...(Read Full Article)
