Trump wants to order end to birthright citizenship

President Donald Trump is making another hardline immigration play in the final days before midterm elections, declaring that he wants to order an end to the constitutional right to citizenship for babies born in the United States to non-citizens.

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• Asked about Trump's birthright citizenship comments, Reynolds defers to feds; Hubbell, Porter oppose
• Collins and King slam Trump's plan to end birthright citizenship

For illegal immigrants with babies, the anchor pulls in many directions

For illegal immigrants with babies, the anchor pulls in many directions

The pregnant Latina women who come for checkups and guidance at Mary’s Center in Northwest Washington say that they understand that their babies will become anchors in their lives — but not the kind of anchors that Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump disparages on the campaign trail.

CENSUS: ANCHOR BABY DELIVERED EVERY 93 SECONDS

CENSUS: ANCHOR BABY DELIVERED EVERY 93 SECONDS

One out of about every twelve newborns in the United States is an anchor baby, or the U.S.-born child of illegal migrants, according to a Pew Research Center study.

Donald Trump Wants To Deport Anchor Babies

Trump: Deny Citizenship to Babies of People Illegally in US

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump wants to deny citizenship to the babies of immigrants living in the U.S. illegally as part of an immigration plan that emphasizes border security and deportation for millions.

• Trump: Eyes effort to deport native-born children of immigrants living illegally in US

Deportations of parents can cast the lives of U.S.-citizen kids into turmoil

Deportations of parents can cast the lives of U.S.-citizen kids into turmoil

Twelve-year-old Jason Penate spent the holidays hanging close by his father. They picked out a Christmas tree and decorated the front window of their Gainesville, Va., home with candy canes, and Jason tried very hard not to think about whether his father would still be here in the new year.

US-born kids of migrants lose rights in Mexico

US-born kids of migrants lose rights in Mexico


As a cold drizzle washed over this town of narrow cobblestone streets in the forested highlands of central Mexico, mothers waiting outside the colonial-era cultural center wrapped wool blankets around the infants snuggled in their arms. Other parents tightened plastic bags around folders filled with U.S. passports and birth certificates from California, Ohio and Texas.

NC Deportation Case Highlights Child Welfare Maze

NC Deportation Case Highlights Child Welfare Maze

When immigration agents deported Felipe Montes to Mexico two years ago, his three young sons were left in the care of their mentally ill, American-born mother in a small North Carolina mountain town.

Taos family torn by father’s deportation

Taos family torn by father’s deportation

He is a voice on speakerphone, telling his wife and his two youngest sons Joaquin and Alejandro that he loves them from prison. He is a letter worn at the creases, written by a cellmate who can read and write.

Deported Mexican in bid to reunite with sons

Deported Mexican in bid to reunite with sons

More than 20,000 people have signed an online petition in the US to have a deported Mexican father reunited with his three children who are currently in foster care.

Obama adminstration rips 46 thousand parents from children

Obama adminstration rips 46 thousand parents from children

Destroying families is 'collateral damage' of immigration policy...

India warns Norway children in custody row are 'neither orphans nor stateless persons'

India warns Norway children in custody row are 'neither orphans nor stateless persons'

New Delhi: India has told Norway officials that two Indian children who have been put in foster care there against their parents' wishes are "neither orphans nor Stateless persons, and enjoy the protection of the Indian State." The strong stand follows attempts by Norwegian officials to keep the children there after their visas expire next month. Here are 10 developments in this complex story:

Indian children in foster care are not stateless: India to Norway

Kids in foster care are not orphans, India tells Norway

Deported & Fighting Over Custody of his US Children

Deported & Fighting Over Custody of his US Children

A Mexican man who was deported to his country last year is fighting with North Carolina over custody of his three U.S.-born kids, who state authorities want to put up for adoption.

Alamosa judge returns son to immigrant mother

Alamosa judge returns son to immigrant mother

A district court judge declined to terminate the parental rights of a Guatemalan immigrant Tuesday, reuniting the woman with her 4-year-old son.

The Most Vile and Inhumane Immigration Story You Will Read This Week

The Most Vile and Inhumane Immigration Story You Will Read This Week

Felipe Montes lived and worked in the United States for nine years. During that time, he held a full-time job, paid his bills, and fathered two children with his wife, Marie. He failed, however, to pay several traffic tickets, or to acquire a driver's license or car insurance. As a result, a 2010 traffic stop ended with Montes being taken to a detention center where he was scheduled for deportation.

Deported Dad Begs North Carolina To Give Him Back His Children

Deported Dad Begs North Carolina To Give Him Back His Children

Every morning since the first of his three boys was born in 2007, Felipe Montes would wake early and prepare breakfast for his wife and children, get his boys ready for their day, change them, feed them and when he could not arrange a ride with another family member, drive them to daycare. Then he’d go to work at a landscaping company for the next 9 hours and return home in time to cook his children dinner. “I love my kids to death,” Montes said recently. “When they were born, it’s something so wonderful you can’t explain.” Now, Montes may never see them again.

Stolen Babies? Immigrant Mother Loses Four Kids

Stolen Babies? Immigrant Mother Loses Four Kids

The scars of childbirth were still healing on Amelia Reyes Jimenez's stomach in 2008 when police came to her Phoenix apartment and took her three-month-old daughter from her arms.

Adoption Battle Over 5-Year Old Boy Pits Missouri Couple Vs. Illegal Immigrant

Adoption Battle Over 5-Year Old Boy Pits Missouri Couple Vs. Illegal Immigrant

A tug-of-war over a five-year-old boy is at the center of a national debate over parental rights and immigration, and a sign of what critics say is a growing trend in which immigrants are being deemed unfit parents because they crossed the border illegally.

Judge places illegal immigrant's son in foster care

Judge places illegal immigrant's son in foster care

Judge places illegal immigrant's child in foster care

Judge places illegal immigrant's child in foster care

A little boy and his mother are at the center of a raging debate about undocumented immigration. A debate leaving a community divided.

Sri Lankan Children Up For Forced Adoption In The UK

Sri Lankan Children Up For Forced Adoption In The UK

What would have been a perfectly normal day for Shakira Wahab, living in the UK with her husband Fayaz and three kids, turned out into a long drawn out nightmare, resulting in her landing behind bars and having her children taken away from her and fostered with strangers.