GOP Candidates Race to the Bottom, Endorse the Term “Anchor Baby”
The grossly offensive and dehumanizing term “anchor baby” used to be avoided by Republican politicians, back in the days when they were still hoping to court the immigrant vote. The only people you’d hear using it in public were fringe nativist weirdos like Tom Tancredo or Michelle Malkin.
But now that Donald Trump has led the GOP down a very dark and hateful path, Republican presidential candidates are falling all over themselves to show the debased right wing electorate that they can be just as bigoted and offensive and “politically incorrect” as The Donald.
Yes, even Jeb Bush, who’s married to a Hispanic woman.
Speaking on Bill Bennett’s conservative radio show “Morning in America” Wednesday, Bush went as far as using the derogatory term “anchor baby” to describe his support for tighter enforcement on children born in the U.S. to immigrant parents.
“If there’s abuse, people are bringing - pregnant women are coming in to have babies simply because they can do it, then there ought to be greater enforcement,” Bush said in the interview, which was written about by POLITICO. “That’s [the] legitimate side of this. Better enforcement so that you don’t have these, you know, ‘anchor babies,’ as they’re described, coming into the country.”
And even Bobby Jindal — who is actually a beneficiary of birthright citizenship himself: Bobby Jindal: I’m ‘Happy to Use’ the Term ‘Anchor Babies’
[Fox News host BIll] Hemmer asked Jindal to clarify whether he would use the term “anchor babies,” and the Republican presidential hopeful said he would.
“Folks today are too easily offended. They’re too politically correct,” Jindal said. “The real issue here — yeah I’m happy to use the term — but the reality is the real issue here is we need to secure our border.”
