Our hospital emergency rooms would not be flooded with everything from gunshot wounds, to
anchor babies, to imported diseases ...
Trump, who has long decried "
anchor babies," has sought occasionally for months to end birthright citizenship, telling advisers that many migrants are making the dangerous crossing into the United States only so their children can become citizens, according to a former White House official who discussed the matter with the president.
Trump, who has long decried "
anchor babies," said he has discussed the move with his legal counsel and believes it can be accomplished with executive action, a view at odds with the opinions of many legal scholars.
Wildes said the use of the terms "
anchor babies" and "chain migration" is an attempt "to try to change the narrative" and undermine the "beautiful notion of family reunification" -- the idea that immigrants arrive, work hard to help bring their family members over and help "build up our economy and pay it forward to the next generation."
Dionne Jr., points out: "Republicans should stand up to Trump's anti-life attack on immigrants." For far too long, SI believes pro-life leaders have turned a blind eye to Republican lawmakers who use dehumanizing terms towards babies such as "
anchor babies," but also with dehumanizing terms used towards fellow mankind.
This claim is often made with offensive and incendiary language, describing pregnant migrant women--especially Latinas--as "multiplying rats" (Cisneros, 2013; 291) and their children as "
anchor babies" (Ignatow and Williams, 2011; Lederer, 2013).
Jeb Bush also did it when he clarified in August that his reference to
anchor babies was not intended to offend Latinos.
Commonly referred to as
anchor babies, these children are born in the United States to noncitizen mothers and are subsequently granted birthright citizenship for having been born in America.
If chain migration is a phantom concern, the scourge of "
anchor babies" isn't much more plausible.
A more common objective among impoverished Mexican women coming to the United States is economic opportunity, and giving birth to "
anchor babies" who might help their case when applying for amnesty from deportation.
He's spoken out against children sometimes referred to as "
anchor babies," whose undocumented mothers give birth in the U.S., automatically giving their kids citizenship.
Most radically, Trump has proposed ending birthright citizenship for so-called
anchor babies. He has been joined ideologically in this endeavor by Scott Walker, Rand Paul, Lindsey Graham, Bobby Jindal and Rick Santorum, among others.