Escaped Drug Lord El Chapo Has 'Anchor Babies' In The U.S.

Joaquin Guzman is called El Chapo, the Mexican drug lord who escaped prison one month ago. He had ordered his wife, Emma Coronel, to give birth to "anchor babies" in California, that will guarantee them US citizenship.

Emma Coronel had been born in California and is a U.S. citizen, so she has the right to live in the nation, according to the dailymail.

She had been sent to California to give birth, so that her daughters would be U.S. citizens too. Even though the US feds knew it, they could not stop it, as there were no valid charges they could put up against her.

Critics worry that Sen. Ted Kennedy's Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965 will enable El Chapo's daughters to apply for an "unlimited number of relatives to join them in the U.S", taking advantage of the law's "chain migration".

Hence, the relatives of the drug kingpins would be able to"bypass U.S. immigration law" in order to get legal residence in the US, taking advantage of the benefits and tax credits.

Many Republican Presidential nominees are concerned about the relationship between immigration and anchor babies.

For instance, Donald Trump and Jeb Bush have both slammed the system as it enables "criminals" south of the border to get into the US and take advantage of its laws, such as the 14th Amendment, so that they can get citizenship.

They say that it would also lead to problems if El Chapo's children begin to commit crimes, which would be charged against "native-born citizens" so that politicians who lobby against "strict immigration reform" would have a lever to drive their point home.

For instance, El Chapo is an illegal immigrant, but Coronel, the daughter of another drug lord and a U.S. citizen, as well as her children, get a free rein to do whatever they please, with no control from the government, according to hngn.

On the other hand, many of the 'anchor babies' are indignant. "Don't get distracted by the GOP parade, conservatives: we anchor babies are as American as you are, if not more so. After all, what's more patriotic than proving pendejo politicians wrong?" asks Gustavo Arellano in theguardian.

He points out that the El Chapo-type anchor babies are "relatively rare". Citing a Pew Research Center 2010 study, he recalls about 340,000 births to undocumented parents in 2010 (about 8% of all babies born that year), with more than 80% of them born to people who had lived in the US for more than a year.