If you thought the immigration debate in the US was just about porous borders and Hispanics, think again. Two Texas Republican lawmakers are now floating the 'terror baby’ theory to launch their demands for stricter immigration laws.

And the usual suspects in this plot aren't across the border, they are half-way across the world.

Their story goes like this: illegal immigrants come to the US to have babies; after the newborns are granted citizenship under American Law, the parents take them back to their countries where they raise them as terrorists, with the intention of sending them back twenty years later to carry out terror attacks.

We all know someone or the other from Pakistan, who has come to the land of opportunities to deliver their baby, for a blue US passport so they can give their child a life with endless educational and job options, sans visa restrictions.

But the intentions of the people involved in this alleged ‘terror baby plot,’ are a far cry from that. Both lawmakers, Debbie Riddle and Louie Gohmert claim they got the information about the plot from former FBI officials.

On the floor of the US Congress on June 24th, Texas Republican Rep. Louie Gohmert said,

"I talked to a retired FBI agent, who said that one of the things they were looking at were terrorist cells overseas who had figured out how to game our system, and it appeared they would have young women, who became pregnant, who would get them into the United States to have a baby ... then they would return back, where they could be raised and coddled as future terrorists. And then, one day, 20 or 30 years down the road they could be sent in to help destroy our way of life, because they figured out how stupid we are being in this country."

Gohmert’s claims were recently echoed on CNN's Anderson 360 by a Republican member of the Texas State Legislature, Debbie Riddle, who said that her office is also getting information on the so-called terror babies "from former FBI officials."