Bwahaha! Michelle Malkin is an "Anchor Baby"!!!

[BakedAtAMileHigh]

http://blogs.westword.com/latestword/2010/08/michelle_malkin_anchor_baby_awkward_charge_if_she_wants_to_be_tom_tancredos_running_mate.php

With the deadline for printing Colorado's ballot fast approaching, Tom Tancredo will have to move fast if he wants to replace Doug "Dayhorse" Campbell, the American Constitution Party lieutenant governor candidate he inherited when he took the top spot. The name of conservative columnist Michelle Malkin stirred interest -- and an accusation that she's an "anchor baby."

(...)

But as it turns out, while Malkin automatically became a citizen under the Fourteenth Amendment when she was born in Pennsylvania forty years ago to parents who were Philippine citizens -- her parents (a physician and a teacher) were also here legally on an employer-sponsored visa.

[mike r]

1. The Law for the Protection of American Blood

will define American as having three or four racially full American grandparents. :sarcasm:

[CanonRay]

14. Ruh-Roh

I don't think I qualify.

[dkf]

2. They did it the right way. Good for them.

And Michelle should be a beneficiary because her parents followed the rules. Good for her.

[malaise]

5. So did Obama's father but Michelle

encourages the false rumours.

[BakedAtAMileHigh]

6. & eliminating the 14th would stop it for every immigrant, not just the "illegals"

Which is why the response above makes no sense. Oh, well.

[malaise]

10. The woman is bat shit crazy

:hi:

[pscot]

15. And mean as the Devil

n/t

[CatholicEdHead]

24. Not just immigrants but everyone

As it makes everyone's citizenship, no matter how many generations your family has been here under threat as it can be arbitrarily be taken away if this is overturned (won't be anytime soon due to how much it takes to pass or repeal a amendment).

[dkf]

18. Obamas father did it right too. Good for him and good for Obama.

I'm not sure about his Aunty though. That one looks suspect.

[malaise]

19. LOL

:D

[Gormy Cuss]

13. Maybe they timed their visa to make sure they'd have little American anchor babies.

That way if they lost the employer-sponsored visa they could plead hardship. How dare they breed an American child when they were one visa violation away from deportation?
Her parents should have been required to apply for a temporary resident visa for her, following the logic of the idiots who want to end birthright citizenship.

End rant posing as a rightwinger.


If Malkin dares spout off about "anchor babies" she's even more loathsome than I thought.

[Hannah Bell]

21. so transparent

[Missy Vixen]

3. But-but-but this can't be true!

How on earth could Michelle Malkin advocate for the repeal of laws protecting anchor babies when she is one herself? Why, that would be hypocritical. She's not a hypocrite, is she? I mean, really. She's on the teevee. That means she must be telling the truth about herself and her background, right?

:sarcasm: :sarcasm: :sarcasm:

When I'm not shocked, SHOCKED I tell you, I'm laughing.

Forty, huh? Hey, Michelle, life's a bitch, isn't it?

:rofl:

[BeFree]

4. It is a cruel joke, right?

I am laughing. Poor Michelle, about to be labeled as un-American by her own cohorts.

Come over to the dark side, Michelle, you can be one of us, no problemo!

[thereismore]

7. That's what I'll call her from now on. I would have nothing against her if she hadn't

been an absolute people hater.

[Common Sense Party]

8. How is she an anchor baby?

Her parents were here legally, according to what you posted. I believe the issue is when parents are here ILLEGALLY and have a child in the States. Correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe that's what the term means.

[kenny blankenship]

9. You're absolutely right. She's not an anchor baby. She's a Terror Baby.

Anchor babies allow the parents to stay in the country and work. Terror babies come back to America later in life, since they have citizenship, and sow death and destruction. And sweet delicious terror.

[area51]

11. LOL. n/t

[Common Sense Party]

12. Perhaps she's a Nonsense Baby.

She grows up to spew nonstop nonsense.

[progressoid]

20. Terror baby for sure. She certainly scares me.

[BakedAtAMileHigh]

16. no, that is NOT how the term is being used by the Republicans at all

Removing the 14th Amendment would eliminate citizenship of the American-born children of both "legal" and "illegal" (who you callin' illegal, paleface?) immigrants, I believe.

[Common Sense Party]

17. I'm surrounded by Republicons, and none of them are talking

about REPEALING the 14th Amendment.

They want the verbiage clarified so that it only pertains to children of parents who are present in the country LEGALLY when the child is born--whether that be on a work visa, student visa, tourist visa, etc.

[cascadiance]

25. i'm having this argument with wingnuts on another board... They try to make this an issue...

They say it is just illegals. There is a quote from Russell Pearce of SB1070 infamy, who says:

http://www.kpho.com/news/23623047/detail.html

...

Pearce wrote in one e-mail: "I also intend to push for an Arizona bill that would refuse to accept or issue a birth certificate that recognizes citizenship to those born to illegal aliens, unless one parent is a citizen."

...

So, its not clear what the case is if both are legal non-citizens.

I simply point out to them, that whether or not they consider them having kids born here as citizens or not, you have a problem.

Either:

a) you are advocating that these kids are NOT citizens, and then you have Malkin potentially Tancredo's running mate, as an anchor baby by that definition, making that ticket an example of their hypocrisy.

or

b) you are advocating that these kids ARE citizens, and then you have people that are trying to push USELESS and costly either unconstitutional law, or an expensive constitutional amendment that would do nothing. If they claim that people come here illegally just to have "anchor babies", then they'll just change their methodology to come here on temporary tourist visas, having them being here LEGALLY for the time their baby is born, and therefore being able to claim citizenship. How do they deal with these tourist visa babies? Well, that affects wealthy foreigners too, who might want to take advantage of Citizen's United "law" and make those politician's lives difficult with "campaign contribution" briberies... But then, perhaps Malkin as a running mate to Tancredo is no longer a hyprocritical act, just two people on a team proposing more worthless and costly legislation.

Either way, they have some "splainin'" to do!

[hugo_from_TN]

29. Nope, the issue is children of illegal immigrants.

[CLANG]

22. From Wikipedia

According to the Double-Tongued Dictionary, edited by American lexicographer Grant Barrett, the term "anchor baby" means "a child born of an immigrant in the United States, said to be a device by which a family can find legal foothold in the US, since those children are automatically allowed to choose United States citizenship."<5> In response to a reader's proposed alternate definition seeking to limit the definition of the term to children of illegal immigrants, Grant Barrett states:

...it is used for *any* immigrant. Those who use this term tend to be opposed to *all* immigration and immigrants, not illegal immigration, especially those who use their immigration stance as a mask for racism and xenophobia.<5>

[cascadiance]

27. Malkin herself says she doesn't feel children of "temporary workers" should get citizenship...

... automatically.

From:

http://dailycaller.com/2010/06/15/opponents-attack-arizona-state-senators-proposal-to-crack-down-on-illegal-immigrants-anchor-babies/2/

Michelle Malkin

What makes an American

...

American Indians who, as members of foreign tribal governments, were not "subject to the jurisdiction" of the U.S., did not receive birthright citizenship until more than a half-century after the 14th Amendment was enacted. Moreover, the long-upheld practice of excluding children of foreign diplomats from birthright citizenship shows that the amendment allowed for exclusion of certain U.S.-born children based on the legal status of their parents.

Clearly, the custom of granting automatic citizenship at birth to children of tourists and temporary workers such as Hamdi, tourists, and to countless "anchor babies" delivered by illegal aliens on American soil, undermines the integrity of citizenship-not to mention national security. Originally intended to ensure the citizenship rights of newly freed slaves and their families after the Civil War, the citizenship clause has evolved into a magnet for alien lawbreakers and a shield for terrorist infiltrators and enemy combatants.

If the courts refuse to close the birthright citizenship loopholes, Congress must. Citizenship is too precious to squander on accidental Americans in Name Only

...

Uh... Malkin, YOU were born as a child of a "temporary worker". So what why should you get special treatment over these other people you would decry citizenship for?

[Norrin Radd]

23. Don't they mean, "Rancor baby?"

http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Rancor

[JVS]

26. It depends. Were they clear for permanent residence or merely on a visa?

[Common Sense Party]

28. Either way, they would have been in the country legally.

[JVS]

30. But the question at hand is what an "anchor baby" is

An anchor is used to keep a ship in place. If you know you have 2 years on your visa and then you might have to leave the country, having a child could be used to ensure that you can stay. Thus the child serves as an anchor, allowing temporary legal residence to become permanent.

[pinboy3niner]

32. Having a baby won't allow you to stay

The baby would have to grow up to the age of 21 (and meet other requirements) before being able to sponsor a family member.

[ecstatic]

31. But the repubs also want to stop the visiting services that

allow women to come for a few months in order to give birth. Those women come here legally too.

[nostalgicaboutmyfutr]

33. Forget being an Anchor Baby...I heard she was a Muslin....

and therefore just assume she wished we were all dead!

[Hissyspit]

34. Calling her a baby of any kind is an insult to babies.

I think? :shrug: :evilgrin: