What's Spanish for "Chutzpah"?

The Anchor Baby Syndrome meets the Left Wing Media:

When the majority of Americans remained unmoved by the plight of illegal aliens, Senorita Arellano pulled out her trump card, i.e., her doe-eyed son Saul. Last year the seven-year-old was dispatched to Mexico City to make a maudlin appearance before the Mexican congress where Arellano's supporters successfully passed a nonbinding -- but highly symbolic -- resolution calling for legal residency for the parents of anchor babies. In a surprisingly critical passage in an otherwise fawning story, the Chicago Tribune reported that, "For Saul, the trip has at times been too much, Flashbulbs exploded as he entered the Mexican congressional chambers. Saul scurried into another room and hid under a table." Activists also dragged the boy to Washington, D.C. for a "children's rally" and he has appeared on numerous TV talk shows. Meanwhile, critics charge that the boy is not old enough to be an immigration rights advocate or activist, and that his mother should be protecting him, and not the other way around. Not to worry, his handlers say, the boy sees a therapist every week.

Estimates on the number of anchor babies in the U.S. range from 3.1 million to 4.9 million, and unless Congress acts those numbers will continue to rise. Representatives should begin by revisiting Section 1 of the Fourteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, which states: "All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside." Michelle Malkin notes the phrase "subject to the jurisdiction thereof" was intended to be exclusionary (especially toward American Indians) and certainly was not intended to include children born to tourists and temporary workers.

In fact, many categories of people were excluded from automatic citizenship. When the amendment was introduced, its sponsor Sen. Jacob M. Howard (MI) clearly stated: "This will not, of course, include persons born in the United States who are foreigners, aliens, who belong to the families of ambassadors or foreign ministers accredited to the Government of the United States, but will include every other class of persons."

Elvira Arellano has decided that her son will remain in Chicago with an immigration activist while she stays -- who knows for how long -- in Mexico. Chicago is where the television stations and newspapers photographers are. That is where he is needed most.

Expect many more of these sob stories of people willing to use their own children to break the law and get away with it.