Just when I thought that Arizona Republicans could not do any more to demonstrate their bigotry, here they come again!
A Phoenix news station (KPHO) is reporting that the state Senator behind Arizona’s new immigration law, Russell Pierce (R), does not intend on stopping at SB-1070. In e-mails obtained by the local CBS affiliate, Pearce said he intends to push for an “anchor baby” bill that would essentially overturn the 14th amendment by no longer granting citizenship to the children of undocumented immigrants born on U.S. soil. “Anchor babies” is a derogatory and “politically charged” term used to refer to the U.S. citizen children of undocumented parents. KPHO obtained a troubling email [pdf] from one of Pierce’s constituents who is encouraging him to pursue the “anchor baby” legislation. KPHO reports:
One of the e-mails written by someone else but forwarded by Pearce reads: “If we are going to have an effect on the anchor baby racket, we need to target the mother. Call it sexist, but that’s the way nature made it. Men don’t drop anchor babies, illegal alien mothers do.” […]
Pearce said his new idea is not only legal but constitutional. “It’s common sense,” Pearce said. “Again – you can’t break into someone’s country and then expect to be rewarded for that. You can’t do it.”
When Pearce was shown the e-mail referring to “anchor babies” that he forwarded, he said he didn’t find anything wrong with the language. “It’s somebody’s opinion…What they’re trying to say is it’s wrong. And I agree with them. It’s wrong,” said Pearce.
Despite Pierce’s confidence that his new proposal is constitutional, the 14th Amendment clearly stipulates that “[a]ll persons born or naturalized in the United States and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside.” … [emphasis original]
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Pearce has strong ties to the nativist movement, whose primary raison d’être is the preservation of the ‘racially superior’ white majority. What we have here is just one more example of GOP racism.
Now most of the Arizona Teabaggers supporting this bill are also Birthers, which begs the following question. Why does propagating the lie that Obama does not have a legal birth certificate matter to them, when the fact that these young citizens have birth certificates does not?
6 Responses to “‘Anchor Babies’: More Teabuggery in Arizona”
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These people are on a roll and are not going to stop. This is the mood for many across this country and our side says the numbers are not there to make this a viable threat. That’s wrong. Many many more on the right support this but keep their mouths shut. We might even see bigot Dems crossing over to vote repug cuz they hate brown people as bad as the others do.
Fly, you make an interesting point, but this would require amending the Constitution. 2/3 majorities in both the House and Senate plus ratification in 3/4 of state legislatures sets the bar too high.
It is in the Constitution that a natural born citizen is an American, so unless he wants to amend the Constitution (good luck with that buddy), this is a no gamer. Shameful and disgusting, but a no brainer at that. Where do these people come from? There are plenty of Euro whites that come here illegally (granted, not at the rate that Mexicans do) that have anchor babies – are they going to be departed too?
Lisa if the Teabaggers had theur way, only whites could come here.
I like many of my fellow Americans less and less everyday.
Me too, Beach. Isn’t it ironic that they are trying to deny to others the very same freedoms they are claiming to defend?