So does this mean that if you use the term “anchor baby”, Barry and Eric’s speech Nazis will nail your @$$ for a “hate crime”?
Cool, if this term is a,’slur’,, then whats the NEXT term to denote the same behavior for a few years until that one is frowned upon too? Though we change words every few years, we are trying to describe the same exact concept. Wetbacks became illegal aliens, illegals became undocumented,, (just missing those papers they never had) and now,, they are immigrants.
A fun vocabulary increasing game!
I am surprised that it took this long to show up in dictionaries. That is an old fashioned view of the “anchor baby” and one which involved a lot of patience to see to fruition. It’s also passe, and the new thing is the dragged-in illegale kid that you “can’t kick back out of the USA because he’d never survive in Mexico or Central America.” And of course the illegale parents have to stay for him or her. Instant anchor, and not even the dictionary has caught up.
“War is peace”.
“Oceana has always been at war with Eurasia”.
Liberalism = BULLSH!T.
(that last part wasn’t Newspeak)
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This definition is incorrect. It should be "A child born to noncitizen parents...'"
If the father is a US citizen, the baby is not an anchor baby.
The only way to know if it really is an anchor baby. Is to throw it in the river and see if it sinks.
HEY YOU! YEAH JULIA PRESTON, YOU! What are you doing? Your article is a puff-piece to help illegal aliens continue to drain the lifeblood of our Nation!
As you stated in your column: “ - - - Mary Giovagnoli, the director of the Immigration Policy Center, a pro-immigration research group in Washington. - - - “ is a card-carrying criminal enabler of illegal aliens.
Why should any US citizen give a flying New York Times about ANY “definition” that she or others like her comes up with?
Free Hospital Emergency Room treatment, and Free Citizenship for Anchor Babies ARE the two major US Federal Government caused problems that help criminal, and illegal aliens ruin America.
What a bunch of crap.
Anchored in the US where they can exploit our social sevices that give them a taxpayer funded middle-class Mexican lifestyle on the backs of the American taxpayer.
Only a neurotic liberal mind would imagine a descriptive phrase is a slur.
I tend to dislike the term as well as it’s very misleading. It is an extremely ineffecient method to stabilize your craft, even in the calmest waters.
Illegal aliens are now referred to as "cross-border violators"
12-7-11 During mandatory Cultural and Environmental Awareness training that all Border Patrol agents must take, we learn that illegal aliens are now referred to as "cross-border violators". We further learn that we should carry lots of garbage bags and assist the "cross-border violators" in hauling out their trash and disposing of it properly. Further evidence that Border Patrol field operations have been hijacked by politically correct politicians. We are glad to know that the huge army of Border Patrol staff officer bureaucrats in D.C. are busy finding new ways to try to lobotomize rank-and-file agents so they can be transformed into politically correct robots who are afraid to make a decision or aggressively enforce the laws of this country. After all, too many arrests of "cross-border violators" would not look good for another massive amnesty program.
Dictionaries and the rabid liberal left can try to redefine words, actually thoughts, but they only succeed in adding more bullshit words to the liberal lexicon. Right-thinking AMERICANS know what anchor babies are, and they should not be granted citizenship unless at least one of their parents are not already American Citizens, period.
Political Correctness on steriods.