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*** "Anchor baby" implies that the parents are illegal aliens, and that the fact that the baby is a citizen benefits other members of the family. Neither of these is true for Superman.
*** Whether or not he is an anchor baby, if the birthing matrix is still canon, if Superman was indeed born on American soil, he ''is'' an American citizen. It's automatic. If you are born on American soil you are an American citizen.
*** US immigration law is that an unknown infant found on American soil, whose exact place of birth cannot be verified by the authorities, is for legal purposes treated as if they had been born on American soil.
** Little known fact: In the very first Superman comic baby Supes wasn't actually adopted by the Kents. He was [http://xroads.virginia.edu/~UG02/yeung/actioncomics/page1.html found on the side of a road by a passing motorist who took him to an orphanage]. Under federal immigration law, that makes him an American citizen. Incidentally, the comic you're thinking of where Superman has an honorary US citizenship is ''probably'' World Without A Superman. Short Version: After Doomsday "kills" Superman Cadmus tries to take possession of his body since studying alien lifeforms is their mandate. But a bureaucrat from Washington shows up and gives the Cadmus director a major dressing down, saying something to the effect of "Superman may be an alien, but as far as the President is concerned ''he's an American!''"▼
*** For that matter, the laws regarding maritime distress state that an unknown infant found adrift on a boat within US territorial waters, if their place of birth is not positively known to have been outside US territorial waters at the time of their discovery, is a US citizen.
▲** Little known fact: In the very first Superman comic baby Supes wasn't actually adopted by the Kents. He was [http://xroads.virginia.edu/~UG02/yeung/actioncomics/page1.html found on the side of a road by a passing motorist who took him to an orphanage]. Under federal immigration law, that makes him an American citizen. (This also applies in other continuities where the Kents are the ones who found him at the side of the road). Incidentally, the comic you're thinking of where Superman has an honorary US citizenship is ''probably'' World Without A Superman. Short Version: After Doomsday "kills" Superman Cadmus tries to take possession of his body since studying alien lifeforms is their mandate. But a bureaucrat from Washington shows up and gives the Cadmus director a major dressing down, saying something to the effect of "Superman may be an alien, but as far as the President is concerned ''he's an American!''"
*** From 1948 to the End of the Silver Age the anonymous motorist was replaced by the Kents discovering the child, reporting to the proper authorities the finding of one foundling, male, and a desire to adopt said foundling. Different versions of that part of the origin exist, in the original Kal-El survived the crash, while the rocket was totally destroyed, later on the rocket survived and so on, but Clark Kent became that way a citizen of the United States of America. He had as Superman for part of the Pre-Crisis Age honorary citizenship of all members of the United Nations.
* In the first movie, why does Lex Luthor plan to set off a ''300 megaton'' nuclear bomb right next to where his new premium ocean-front property will be? The fall-out of such a bomb would probably contanimate the entire continental US, and then some. Why was the military testing such a weapon anyway? The most powerful thermonuclear device ever test-detonated by the US in real life was Castle Bravo at 15 megaton (and any tests done inside the continental US never even got into the megaton range). The most powerful device ever detonated, period, was the Russian Tsar Bomba at 57 megaton. A 300 megaton warhead detonated in California would probably break windows in New York! And Jimmy Olsen sees this thing go off at a distance where he should've been hit by the blast (even if it was a more reasonable size, like maybe 20 kiloton, which is what the mushroom cloud size he sees suggests), but he isn't even phased! In fact, the nukes appear to have ''no consequences whatsoever'' besides breaking the fault line. [[Sci-Fi Writers Have No Sense of Scale]], I guess.
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