Sorry, Republicans: I'm an anchor baby, and I'm not going anywhere
http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/aug/24/sorry-republicans-anchor-baby-citizen
I’m so happy that all the passengers in the Republican Party’s presidential-candidate clown car have united against so-called anchor babies. You know: the children born in this country to immigrants, legal or not – children that the United States Constitution calls “citizens” but that the Republican’s aspiring commanders-in-chief have collectively decided are an existential threat to America.
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They’re right. We – yep, I’m an anchor baby; more on that in a bit – are helping to expose the GOP’s anxieties by simply existing. Opponents of birthright citizenship are demonizing us as living, breathing reminders of this nation’s failed immigration policies, and find it so easy to do because we’re not gabachos. Nearly all of us are from America’s eternal and modern-day enemies: Red China, the Middle East and Latin America, especially Mexico. And such facts expose what’s really freaking out the right: the destiny of demographics.
From the the ratification of the 14th Amendment to the origins of the term “anchor babies” (used as “anchor children” to slur Vietnamese-American refugees – those immigrants that the GOP nowadays say came to this country the “right” way), to the present-day, birthright citizenship has always been a battlefield for politicians to try to deny citizenship to the latest non-whites clamoring to become American.
Now, candidates are again raising the issue – even candidates of color, like Bobby Jindal and Marco Rubio, who are gleefully lambasting the US-born children of undocumented immigrants in a vain attempt to prove they can be as bigoted as the people whose votes they desire. But this is just a last-gasp, futile effort to stop the Anchor Baby Nation from dawning. Numbers already show that American children will be majority-minority by 2020. By trashing immigrant kiddies, Donald Trump and his ilk think they can will this reality from happening.
Funny he should mention Booby. Turns out Piyush's mom and dad had arrived here on visas about four months before he was born. Hmmmm...
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