Better enforcement so that you don't have these, you know, 'anchor babies,' as they're described, coming into the country." When pressed on his use of the phrase "anchor babies," Bush defended it.

The phrase “anchor babies” is offensive. It is meant to be offensive because it is a slur. Don’t let anyone tell you otherwise. Uttered by Donald Trump, Jeb Bush and other Republican White ...

The whole premise of the term “anchor babies” — that these children are somehow bad for the US — couldn’t be more wrong. We act as if these babies detract from the US to the benefit of ...

July 3, 2010— -- It has been dubbed by the news media as the Arizona "anchor baby" bill, referring to U.S-born children of illegal immigrants used to 'anchor' the parents in the country ...

Trump releases specifics on his immigration policy 04:36. When Donald Trump proposed an end to birthright citizenship, he said that he didn't believe "anchor babies" -- a term used to refer to ...

But today, the use of "anchor baby" in politics and media can turn into a mini-controversy: CNN’s Chris Cuomo had to apologize when he said it in 2014, as did then-Texas state Sen. and now-Texas ...

Open mouth, insert foot. On Thursday, Jeb Bush stepped into controversy when he used the loaded term “anchor babies” to refer to the U.S.-born children of undocumented immigrants.

'Anchor babies' implies a disdain for a much smaller group of people, and, by the way, one that probably encompasses quite a few non-Hispanic immigrants who in many cases come from richer ...

The only thing that a so-called anchor baby can do to assist either of their undocumented parents involves such a long game that it's not a practical immigration strategy, said Greg Chen, an ...

“Anchor baby” rhetoric has, historically, referred to children born to long-term unauthorized residents of the United States, typically immigrants from Mexico or elsewhere in Latin America.

I was an “anchor baby.” According to family lore, the day I was born at Hibbing Memorial Hospital in Minnesota in the early 1960s was also the day my parents received their deportation papers.