U.S. security issues because of terror babies

Illegal immigrants having kids in the U.S. are called “terror babies” by Texas Republicans who would like for the U.S. constitution to repeal the 14th amendment. U.S. citizenship is granted to anybody born in America with the 14th amendment. Congressman in Texas Louie Gohmert and Debbie Riddle, state representative, explain that taxpayers have to pay for illegal immigrants who come to America to have their babies. Then they take their little U.S. citizens home to be trained as deadly sleeper agents, who return as an adults to attack from within.

Conspiracy all about terror babies

All the facts about terror babies were show on CNN by Anderson Cooper. All the details on terror babies came from “former FBI officials” as outlined by Republicans in Texas, Riddle and Gohmert. Gohmert wants the 14th amendment to be changed which is why terror babies were brought up. Women from other countries have children in the U.S. “with the nefarious purpose of turning them into little terrorists, who’ll then come back to the U.S. and do us harm,” says Riddle.

When pressed by Cooper, neither could provide any evidence of the existence of terror babies. Of course Riddle didn’t think she would actually need facts during the interview which is what she said on camera.

Law makes this scenario unlikely

When thinking about how the law is set up, says Think Progress, there isn’t much of a chance for there to be terror babies like these. It can be very hard just to get a simple U.S. visa. An officer at the U.S. embassy has to interview these individuals who’ll provide evidence of their trip purpose, fingerprints and photos. While you will find immigrant women — documented and undocumented — who have babies within the U.S. who become American citizens, their purpose within the country is generally to work.

Anchor babies a slow boat to citizenship

The terror babies idea is an escalated perversion of the “anchor babies” talking point used by Republican senators who argue the 14th amendment needs to be rewritten to curb automatic “birthright citizenship.” It is not easier becoming a U.S. citizen by having an anchor baby in the U.S., reports PolitiFact. It really takes more than 30 years. Citizen children cannot sponsor their parents for citizenship until they turn 21. Parents have to be living in their home for 10 years after getting this sponsor before they will be allowed to apply to enter the U.S. again.

Nonexistent evidence from the FBI}

Gohmert and Riddle told this terror babies story to CNN while Cooper then turned around and interviewed an FBI’s assistant director in international operations who served from 2004 to 1008 named Tom Fuentes. Terror babies don’t exist if you ask Fuentes. An open records request for anything about the conversation between Riddle and the previous FBI agent was made by Elise Hu of the Texas Tribune. There are no records.

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YouTube

youtube.com/watch?v=jUA7obmYvPk

CNN

cnn.com/2010/OPINION/08/13/navarrette.terror.babies/

Think Progress

thinkprogress.org/2010/08/13/gohmert-terrorists-immigration/

PolitiFact

politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2010/aug/06/lindsey-graham/illegal-immigrants-anchor-babies-birthright/