re: #168 BigPapa

Suggesting that a significant amount of people would do that is dehumanizing because to do that, they parents are dehumanizing the child. Most transient peoples are looking for a better life, not trying to come get free social security checks or have terrorist babies that will blow up jets in 30 years.

That a couple would have an ‘anchor baby’ is undeniable. That it would happen with any amount of regularity or be anything more than a rare exception is dehumanizing. To make it part of the national discussion as a relevant point of debate is dehumanizing.

The concept behind ‘anchor babies’ has always been that people are determinedly scooting across the border as their labor pains begin, for the sole purpose of having a citizen child. The fact that no one has ever really offered evidence that this is happening, that it’s done deliberately, or that it gives the parents any advantage has completely failed to get people to stop talking about it as though it were some sort of established factual phenomenon.