What should be done about illegal immigration?

Babies born to illegal immigrants with some hope or belief that the child will help them to remain in the country of their choice is tough to repeatedly type.

the infamous terrorist, Yaser Esam Hamdi (of Hamdi v. Rumsfield fame) was an anchor baby born to Saudi parents who were working in the United States on temporary work visas.

Finn dAbuzz wrote:

I guess NBC stands for Nativist-Bigot-Corporation

Anchor Babies

The argument about this term is ridiculous.

If it is so terrible, provide us with an alternative.

Babies born to illegal immigrants with some hope or belief that the child will help them to remain in the country of their choice is tough to repeatedly type.

Now you're pushing it. Poor, uneducated African Americans, living in the ghetto gets tiresome too. Much easier to just say niggers... or do you know an alternative word?

OCCOM BILL wrote:

Finn dAbuzz wrote:

I guess NBC stands for Nativist-Bigot-Corporation

Anchor Babies

The argument about this term is ridiculous.

If it is so terrible, provide us with an alternative.

Babies born to illegal immigrants with some hope or belief that the child will help them to remain in the country of their choice is tough to repeatedly type.

Now you're pushing it. Poor, uneducated African Americans, living in the ghetto gets tiresome too. Much easier to just say niggers... or do you know an alternative word?

The difference being that "nigger" doesn't have a real word meaning other then what people what it to mean.

OCCOM BILL wrote:

Finn dAbuzz wrote:

I guess NBC stands for Nativist-Bigot-Corporation

Anchor Babies

The argument about this term is ridiculous.

If it is so terrible, provide us with an alternative.

Babies born to illegal immigrants with some hope or belief that the child will help them to remain in the country of their choice is tough to repeatedly type.

Now you're pushing it. Poor, uneducated African Americans, living in the ghetto gets tiresome too. Much easier to just say niggers... or do you know an alternative word?

The difference being that "nigger" doesn't have a real word meaning other then what people what it to mean.

The Spanish word negro originates from the Latin word niger, meaning black. In English, negro or neger became negar and finally nigger, most likely under influence of French nègre (also derived from the Latin niger).

Neither does Anchor Baby.

Next lame excuse, c'mon down....

Cycloptichorn

OCCOM BILL wrote:

Finn dAbuzz wrote:

I guess NBC stands for Nativist-Bigot-Corporation

Anchor Babies

The argument about this term is ridiculous.

If it is so terrible, provide us with an alternative.

Babies born to illegal immigrants with some hope or belief that the child will help them to remain in the country of their choice is tough to repeatedly type.

Now you're pushing it. Poor, uneducated African Americans, living in the ghetto gets tiresome too. Much easier to just say niggers... or do you know an alternative word?

The difference being that "nigger" doesn't have a real word meaning other then what people what it to mean.

nigger
One entry found for nigger.


Main Entry: nig•ger
Pronunciation: 'ni-g&r
Function: noun
Etymology: alteration of earlier neger, from Middle French negre, from Spanish or Portuguese negro, from negro black, from Latin niger
1 usually offensive; see usage paragraph below : a black person
2 usually offensive; see usage paragraph below : a member of any dark-skinned race
3 : a member of a socially disadvantaged class of persons <it>
usage Nigger in senses 1 and 2 can be found in the works of such writers of the past as Joseph Conrad, Mark Twain, and Charles Dickens, but it now ranks as perhaps the most offensive and inflammatory racial slur in English. Its use by and among blacks is not always intended or taken as offensive, but, except in sense 3, it is otherwise a word expressive of racial hatred and bigotry.

Cycloptichorn wrote:

Neither does Anchor Baby.

Next lame excuse, c'mon down....

Cycloptichorn

Well, I disagree. "Nigger" is a word with a history.

"Anchor baby" is a made up term, coined by a bunch of people with a clear agenda, and in that regard very similar to terms like "collateral damage", "extraordinary rendition" or "special interrogation".

Foxfyre wrote:

Wikipedia is not the only source to provide a definition or where the term comes from.

The very first line in Wikipedia, however, is "Anchor Baby is a pejorative term." Right there you can figure whoever wrote the article was out to make an ideological statement and that makes it all at least suspect.

Or, if you're not bent on denying you didn't know it was a pejorative term, likely because your prefer biased pseudo-facts from defamatory websites; you could just figure it is a pejorative term.

old europe wrote:

Cycloptichorn wrote:

Neither does Anchor Baby.

Next lame excuse, c'mon down....

Cycloptichorn

Well, I disagree. "Nigger" is a word with a history.

"Anchor baby" is a made up term, coined by a bunch of people with a clear agenda, and in that regard very similar to terms like "collateral damage", "extraordinary rendition" or "special interrogation".

All I mean is that no word actually 'means' anything. All meanings are assumed. So to say that 'anchor baby' is any different, is incorrect.

Cycloptichorn

So you are now on the record that Answers.com, Yahoo Help, MSNBC, Frontpage etc. are all biased pseudo-facts defamatory websites?

I am getting plenty tired of other people dictating what words people are allowed to use and what words they are not

I will note that you object to the term 'anchor baby' that is used pretty much universally and is in no way denigrating except that you choose to make it so. The term is just an honest and descriptive term rathert han having to say "a child born to a mother who entered the country illegally to have her baby here so that her child would be a U.S. citizen and she would thus be less likely to be deported."

Am I understanding correctly that some here have never heard the term "anchor baby" before?

I have not said the term was used universally and you'll be unable to show where I have even suggested that. This is one misrepresentation of what I have said.

Obill, I will note that you object to the term 'anchor baby' that is used pretty much universally and is in no way denigrating except that you choose to make it so.

And the funny thing is that you're the one who always complains about other posters misrepresenting what has been said...

This is one misrepresentation of what I have said.

Foxfyre wrote:

I have not said the term was used universally and you'll be unable to show where I have even suggested that. This is one misrepresentation of what I have said.

right in this post here:

Foxfyre wrote:

Obill, I will note that you object to the term 'anchor baby' that is used pretty much universally and is in no way denigrating except that you choose to make it so.

Again, here's the link --> click me

I have not said the term was used universally and you'll be unable to show where I have even suggested that. This is one misrepresentation of what I have said.