Arizona repubs' focus on "anchor babies": not serious policy, not even adult thinking...

[pampango]

Rather than offer workable solutions, (Arizona) lawmakers are busy outlawing ethnic studies classes, requiring Latinos to carry papers like Jews in prewar Germany, decrying anchor babies and other boogeymen, competing to prove who can be toughest on dirt poor Mexicans, rousing the rabble in their xenophobic righteousness. This is not statesmanship. It is not serious policymaking. It is not even adult.

This is how Arizona legislators would respond to a “problem” that exists largely in their fevered imaginations: armies of pregnant Mexican women waddling across the desert to give birth to infants who, having been born in the U.S.A., automatically enjoy the benefits of American citizenship and can confer the same upon their families.

The first is that even if immigrant women were coming here to give birth to so-called anchor babies — a claim Politifact.org rates dubious at best — the fact is that under existing law, such children can’t sponsor their parents for citizenship until they turn 21. Even then, the parents are required to return home for 10 years before applying for citizenship.

Here’s how you fix illegal immigration.
Pass a bill that: a) toughens border security; b) creates some mechanism to tame the draconian process that now faces anyone who seeks to come here legally; c) penalizes those who are here illegally but also offers them a path to full citizenship.... Or, pass a bill to protect us from anchor babies.

http://www.miamiherald.com/2011/02/08/2056790/temper-tantrums-wont-solve-immigration.html

[Viking12]

1. Doncha know those anchor babies are terrorists in waiting?

[11 Bravo]

2. If they make it retroactive, can we deport anchor baby Michelle Malkin?