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TexasMommaWithAHat

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2. Anchor babies aren't a myth

Reply to LiberalArkie (Original post)

Mon Mar 28, 2016, 11:16 AM

Mar 2016

Not the wealthy women coming from China, anyway.

As for as most coming from south of the border, they come to work for a better life. Those that fly here first class to give birth in California or New York are just a small number, though. But, hey, that's what wealth gets ya'. Right?

For more on birth tourism, read

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/05/01/china-us-birth-tourism_n_7187180.html

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"Anchor babies� are a myth. Here are the real reasons women like me give birth in the US. [View all] LiberalArkie Mar 2016 OP

Great article. For Republicans the problem isn't the anchor, it's the color. forest444 Mar 2016 #1

Anchor babies aren't a myth TexasMommaWithAHat Mar 2016 #2

yea it's an industry in china - this woman thinks she speaks for everyone saturnsring Mar 2016 #4

Hmmm 2naSalit Mar 2016 #7

accidentally got pregnant and her term was just several months LOL snooper2 Mar 2016 #3

A couple of weeks later, I accidentally got pregnant. Several months after, I went into labor at Mem saturnsring Mar 2016 #5

Anchor babies? Oh! You mean American citizens! (n/t) Iggo Mar 2016 #6

I still think it is ridiculous to make such children citizens hfojvt Mar 2016 #8

I agree, but the Constitution is very clear on this point. Mariana Mar 2016 #12

I support a new amendment to cancel that part hfojvt Mar 2016 #13

Whatever the intention may or may not have been Mariana Mar 2016 #14

The trailblazers were the South Vietnamese, Taiwanese and South Africans in the 1960's Sen. Walter Sobchak Mar 2016 #9

Accidentally got pregnant AngryAmish Mar 2016 #10

The issue is far more complicated than one anecdote Major Nikon Mar 2016 #11