Like Jindals? This stupid argument comes up every few years since the 14th was ratified. It never goes away.

I bet George would poll better.

Real nice, picturing little babies with anchors tied around their throats. Does that mean they'd like to drown them after they insist they be born? These people and their lingo are just palin (oops meant plain but Palin seemed to fit so left it) sick.

And don't forget the 'evil doers'. The Bush dinner table conversation must be wonderful to overhear.

"anchor babies" was derogatory. I have always thought of it as descriptive.

When did it become negative?

For me, long ago. In fact, I think the first time I heard it.

But then again, all stereotypical euphemisms and/or labels seem to affect me that way.

What kind of baby were you?

I used to live on one of the Caribbean islands. It was very common for young pregnant women from the island to go to the US on a student visa to have their anchor baby, then return to the island. That way the kid would have dual citizenship & be a legal American if they wanted to live in the US some day.

They're just anchor babies. It wasn't considered a bad name. Its the practice that bothered me. I wonder how many there are out there...

His voters know he's a softie, and expect it.

It's a Republican goal to create underclasses of people who are forced to work in dangerous, abusive, and underpaid jobs, people who have no nations to go home to, no matter how bad their lives get here in the U.S.A..

Children who are born and grow up in the U.S.A. are U.S. Americans regardless of their parents immigration status. That's the way it ought to be.

My wife's parents were born in the U.S.A. to hard working immigrants enthusiastic about the promises of this nation. My wife's dad voluntarily joined the Navy and by dumb luck of the draw and circumstance missed action as a Marine medic in Korea to serve as a medic and guinea pig in nuclear war experiments. He saw an atomic test up close and personal, marched across ground zero, and was the guy holding the Geiger counter in the field showers deciding when the other guinea pigs had scrubbed off enough of their own skin not to be a radioactive danger to themselves and others. Of course it was all new and a lot of those guys later died of cancers they wouldn't have otherwise suffered. My wife's dad was lucky.

My own ancestors were scoundrels and religious dissidents fleeing persecution in Europe and the British Isles. They homesteaded wilderness that had been taken from the Native Americans. They were not such enthusiastic immigrants as my wife's grandparents, they were simply looking for a place to hide. They were pacifists who avoided any involvement in the Civil War and World War I. One of my grandfathers was a conscientious objector in World War II and given the choice of prison or building Liberty and Victory Ships. He built ships.

Which is the more honorable origin?