Anchor Babies

Are 'Anchor Babies' Sinking the American Economy?

Michealene Cristini Risley | Posted 05.15.2012

Read More: Immigration Reform, 14th Amendment, Undocumented Immigrants, 14th Amendment Repeal, Anchor Babies, Illegal Immigration, Immigration, Birthright Citizenship, Politics News

In the wake of the Civil War, many newly freed slaves were struggling to try and establish themselves. Lacking many of the same rights, these African ...

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Dictionary Adds 'Offensive' Label To Pejorative Term

Posted 12.05.2011

Read More: Immigration Reform, Immigration, Video, Undocumented Immigrants, Michele Bachmann, Latino Politics, Anchor Babies, American Heritage Dictionary Anchor Baby, Anchor Babies, Heritage Dictionary, American Heritage Diction Anchor Baby, Latino Voices News

The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, responding to criticism for including "anchor baby" in its latest edition, will add a label...

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Michele Bachmann Wouldn't Do 'Anything' To Help Children Of Undocumented Immigrants

Posted 12.30.2011

Michele Bachmann said Saturday she would not help children of immigrants who come to the U.S. illegally. At a campaign stop in Iowa, a Latino colle...

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4000 Babies: GOP Fecundity and the 2012 Election

Mark Cassello | Posted 08.15.2011

Read More: Michele Bachmann, Conservatives, GOP Debate, Anchor Babies, Children, 2012 Election, Ron Paul, Sarah Palin, Herman Cain, New Hampshire, Rick Santorum, Mitt Romney, Tim Pawlenty, Babies, Debate June 13, Politics News

The second GOP debate on June 13th in New Hampshire opened with a dizzying account of the candidates' propensity to conceive and rear children. C...

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Campaign to Rewrite 14th Amendment Based on Fearmongering Politics, Not Facts

J. Richard Cohen | Posted 05.28.2011

Read More: Immigration, State Legislators for Legal Immigration, Southern Poverty Law Center, Anchor Babies, 14th Amendment, Politics News

Derided as "anchor babies" and even "terror babies," the children of today's undocumented immigrants are under attack by a coalition of state lawmakers backed by the nativist lobby.

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Student Columnist Compares Illegal Aliens To Home Intruders

| Dan Reimold | Posted 05.28.2011

Read More: Rollins College, The Sandspur, Anchor Babies, The South, Jamie Pizzi, College Media Matters, College News

A student newspaper op-ed arguing citizenship status should not be granted to children of illegal immigrants "has spurred an outcry from some students...

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'Don't Touch My Maid,' or My Pool Boy

Dorian de Wind | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Birthers, Anchor Babies, Rep. Debbie Riddle, Rep. Leo Berman, Texas House Bill 2012, Illegal Immigration, Anderson Cooper, Texas, Undocumented Workers, Texas Rep. Aaron Pena, Politics News

House Bill 2012 would make hiring an "unauthorized alien" a crime punishable by up to two years in prison and a $10,000 fine... "unless that is, they are hired to do household chores."

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A Minor Setback for Arizona's Residents

Pablo Alvarado | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: 14th Amendment, Ndlon, Human Rights, Arizona, Anchor Babies, Russell Pearce, Salvador Reza, Constitution, Puente Movement, Politics News

Last week, the effort to take away the citizenship rights of Arizona's first generation children born of undocumented parents hit a wall.

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Birthright Citizenship Is Bedrock Americanism

Van Gosse | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Lindsey Graham, British-Common-Law, Birthright Citizenship, Fourteenth Amendment, Birther Babies, Anchor Babies, Founding Fathers, Glenn Beck, Politics News

When you hear that birthright citizenship is not part of the America conceived by the Founding Fathers, take a strong drink of skepticism.

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The 14th Amendment and the Essential Question

Ray Suarez | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Politics News, Politics, 14th Amendment, Undocumented Immigrants, Anchor Babies, Illegal Immigration, Illegal Immigrants, Immigration, Lindsey Graham, Arizona, Birthright Citizenship, Republicans, Politics News

It will be interesting to see whether an old idea -- that anyone born here is part of the United States by right -- will survive the bruising arguments over who belongs, who's in, and who's out.

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'Birth Tourism' Only Accounts For Tiny Percentage Of Immigrant Babies

AP | BOB CHRISTIE and PAUL J. WEBER | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Birth Tourism, Immigration, Immigrant Children, Anchor Babies, 14th Amendment, Birth Tourism Numbers, Illegal Immigation, Illegal Immigrants, Politics News

SAN JUAN, Texas — When Ruth Garcia's twins are born in two months, they'll have all the rights of U.S. citizens. They and their six brothers and...

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The Other Side of the Anchor: Where Else Do American-Born Kids Belong?

Michelle Chen | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Citizenship, 14th Amendment, Immigration Reform, Undocumented Immigrants, Human Rights, Anchor Babies, Illegal Immigration, Immigration, Arizona Immigration Law, Birthright Citizenship, Deportation, Politics News

We accept the term "naturalization" to describe the process of the foreign-born taking on a new citizenship. What could be more natural than being accepted as a citizen of the only home you've ever known?

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The Summer of Republican Race-Baiting

Bob Cesca | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Ground Zero Mosque, Obama Muslim, Anchor Babies, Mosque Ground Zero, Racism, Shirley Sherrod, Immigration, Obama Muslim Smear, Race Baiting, Constitution, Arizona Immigration Law, Race, Muslim, Southern Strategy, September 11th, Fourteenth Amendment, Politics News

What else do we call the deliberate inciting of racial bigotry and resentment for the sake of attaining power? It's race-baiting and it's a major component of the Republican strategic arsenal.

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Babies - No Adjectives Needed

Rev. Debra Haffner | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Birth, Citizenship, Virginia, Politics News, 14th Amendment, Immigration Reform, Religion News, Anchor Babies, Illegal Immigration, Theology, Immigration, Arizona, Arizona Immigration Law, Faith, Religion News

Last week, the U.S. National Center for Health Statistics issued the final birth statistics for 2007. They reported that in 2007, there were 4.3 mil...

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Living in a 'Post-Racist' Society

Tina Dupuy | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Ground Zero Mosque, Andrew Breitbart, Anchor Babies, Dr. Laura Schlessinger, Racist, Racism, Muslims, Immigration, Race, Politics News

The MSNBC documentary series Lock Up ran a story earlier this month about a Maricopa County Jail inmate charged with identity theft named Cecil Kunkel...

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Rosemary's Anchor Baby

Robert Brenner | Posted 05.25.2011

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Please allow me to introduce myself, as the song goes. You can call me Lucifer, Satan, Beelzebub -- whatever. I've got a proposition for you. No, I d...

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Howard Fineman: Why The GOP's New Culture War Issues May Burn Them

Newsweek | Howard Fineman | Posted 05.25.2011

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If we had any sense, the fall elections would be about just one thing: the economy. But we do not have any sense. We are facing what Wall Street would...

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John McCain Breaks With GOP Leaders, Says 14th Amendment Should Remain Intact

AP | BOB CHRISTIE | Posted 05.25.2011

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PHOENIX — Breaking with Republican leaders in the Senate, U.S. Sen. John McCain says he is not requesting hearings into the constitutional amend...

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Former Bush Aides Bash GOP's New Stance On 14th Amendment As 'Offensive,' 'Embarrassment'

The Huffington Post | Nick Wing | Posted 05.25.2011

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Former aides to the George W. Bush Administration are retaliating against a recent flurry of Republican calls for a repeal or readdressing of the 14th...

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GOP: Bring Back 'Corruption of Blood'

Tina Dupuy | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Gop, 14th Amendment, US Constitution, Immigration, Illigal Immigration, Anchor Babies, John Boehner, Politics News

Corruption of Blood" was an English law stating that if your parents committed treason, you were also stained. The GOP's idea is to change the Constitution so that being without papers is treated more harshly than treason.

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Citizenship: Because I Said So

Philip N. Cohen | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Citizenship, 14th Amendment, Immigration, Anchor Babies, Chinese Immigrants, Federation for American Immigration Reform, Barack Obama, Politics News

The modern state's reasons for granting or denying citizenship are a mix of "because I said so" and "because we matter and you don't."

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Fourteenth Amendment Reform Prompts Strange Bedfellows In Opposition

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: John McCain, Harry Reid, Bobby Jindal, Anchor Babies, Lindsey Graham, Alan Keyes, John Kyl, Michael Gerson, Fourteenth Amendment, Eat the Press, Media News

Last week, riders on the political crazy train stopped off in Iowa to create a whole new insane plank in the Iowa GOP's official platform -- the resto...

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Baby Baiting

Robin Templeton | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Immigration, Immigration Rights, Lindsey Graham, Anchor Babies, Arizona Immigration, Anti-Immigration, Anti-Immigration Movement, Politics News

The anti-immigrant right is capitalizing on a concept with old nativist roots that is lending new potency to the assault on Latino immigrants, demonizing babies as the weapon of choice for armies of "illegals."

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Utah's Prelude to Anchor Baby Mama Drama

Victoria M. DeFrancesco Soto | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Illegal Immigrants, Citizenship, Immigration, Arizona, Anchor Babies, Utah List, US Constitution, Politics News

With the new focus on the born and unborn babies of immigrants, the immigration issue has been taken to a new disturbing level. The denial of citizenship to U.S. born babies smacks in the face of the Constitution.

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Arizona's Next Immigration Target: Children Of Illegals

TIME | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: 1070, Anchor Babies, Arizona Immigration, Ilegal Immigration, Anchor Baby, Immigration, Arizona, Politics News

"Anchor babies" isn't a very endearing term, but in Arizona those are the words being used to tag children born in the U.S. to illegal immigrants. Whi...

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