bobby jindall claims he isn't an anchor baby

[Ravi]

Well, yes you are, you tool. Your parents were not citizens when they birthed you in the USA.

 

[Valerie]

depends how you define anchor baby




People define "anchor baby" in different ways. Some use it when food assistance and medical care for a low-income child of undocumented immigrants produce indirect benefits for the parents. That doesn’t apply in Jindal’s case.


For one, his parents had healthy incomes when they arrived, and more to the point, Occupy Democrats focused on another meaning of anchor baby — a child through whom a noncitizen can craft a path to full citizenship.


Jindal’s birthright citizenship played no legal role in his parent’s citizenship applications.


Liberal group tags Bobby Jindal as 'anchor baby'

 

[PaintMyHouse]

Well, yes you are, you tool. Your parents were not citizens when they birthed you in the USA.

Just another wetback made an American only because he was born here.

 

[Mad Scientist]

"Don't panic! He's just Hispan... Uh, Hundu! Hindi? Uh, Smells like Curry?"

 

[Ravi]

depends how you define anchor baby




People define "anchor baby" in different ways. Some use it when food assistance and medical care for a low-income child of undocumented immigrants produce indirect benefits for the parents. That doesn’t apply in Jindal’s case.


For one, his parents had healthy incomes when they arrived, and more to the point, Occupy Democrats focused on another meaning of anchor baby — a child through whom a noncitizen can craft a path to full citizenship.


Jindal’s birthright citizenship played no legal role in his parent’s citizenship applications.


Liberal group tags Bobby Jindal as 'anchor baby'

Cool. So when is Bobby going to apply for citizenship?

 

[Valerie]

Cool. So when is Bobby going to apply for citizenship?

if they do what he proposes, a child like him would not automatically become a citizen like he did.




‘We have to end birthright citizenship to end anchor babies,’ says Republican Bobby Jindal whose noncitizen parents arrived in the U.S. four months before he was born...

...generally speaking, if you are born in the United States, you can claim citizenship regardless of the immigration status of your parents. This goes back to the 14th Amendment.

 

[Ravi]

I'd like to see the transcripts of his parents' immigration hearings. Who can say that the fact that they had an American child didn't influence the outcome?

 

[NYcarbineer]

depends how you define anchor baby




People define "anchor baby" in different ways. Some use it when food assistance and medical care for a low-income child of undocumented immigrants produce indirect benefits for the parents. That doesn’t apply in Jindal’s case.


For one, his parents had healthy incomes when they arrived, and more to the point, Occupy Democrats focused on another meaning of anchor baby — a child through whom a noncitizen can craft a path to full citizenship.


Jindal’s birthright citizenship played no legal role in his parent’s citizenship applications.


Liberal group tags Bobby Jindal as 'anchor baby'

Ah yes the grand scheme of foreigners to have a baby in the US so 21 years from then that grown-up big ass baby can sponsor his now middleaged parents for legal immigration.

Evil genius!

 

[NYcarbineer]

I don't know about 'baby' but Bobby Jindal's lack of anything remotely resembling viability as a future president has anchored him to the bottom of the pack of nuts in the GOP race.

 

[PaintMyHouse]

bobby "anchor baby" jindall

Has a nice ring to it actually...

 

[Valerie]

I'd like to see the transcripts of his parents' immigration hearings. Who can say that the fact that they had an American child didn't influence the outcome?

the pertinent info is all in the link i posted...

 

[PaintMyHouse]

depends how you define anchor baby




People define "anchor baby" in different ways. Some use it when food assistance and medical care for a low-income child of undocumented immigrants produce indirect benefits for the parents. That doesn’t apply in Jindal’s case.


For one, his parents had healthy incomes when they arrived, and more to the point, Occupy Democrats focused on another meaning of anchor baby — a child through whom a noncitizen can craft a path to full citizenship.


Jindal’s birthright citizenship played no legal role in his parent’s citizenship applications.


Liberal group tags Bobby Jindal as 'anchor baby'

Ah yes the grand scheme of foreigners to have a baby in the US so 21 years from then that grown-up big ass baby can sponsor his now middleaged parents for legal immigration.

Evil genius!

Those wetbacks can really plan ahead. I'll bet they know exactly, a year from now, to the penny, what the new lawnmower is going to cost them...

 

[browsing deer]

Well, yes you are, you tool. Your parents were not citizens when they birthed you in the USA.

They didn't birth him when they were illegal and they didn't head back to Calcutta. How is Jindal an Anchor baby?

 

[PaintMyHouse]

Well, yes you are, you tool. Your parents were not citizens when they birthed you in the USA.

They didn't birth him when they were illegal and they didn't head back to Calcutta. How is Jindal an Anchor baby?

Parents not citizens, but baby is. Anchor baby, by GOP definition...

 

[g5000]

I'd like to see the transcripts of his parents' immigration hearings. Who can say that the fact that they had an American child didn't influence the outcome?

the pertinent info is all in the link i posted...

The claim his birthright citizenship enabled his parents to become citizens was rated:

Pants on Fire!

 

[Ravi]

I'd like to see the transcripts of his parents' immigration hearings. Who can say that the fact that they had an American child didn't influence the outcome?

the pertinent info is all in the link i posted...

Yes, I saw that. But without the actual transcripts of the hearings we cannot know if the fact that they had an American citizen child INFLUENCED the decision to allow them to become citizens.

 

[g5000]

But...yeah. Jindal is clearly an anchor baby by the nativist's definition. A child born to non-citizen parents under US jurisdiction.

His mother dropped anchor just four months after they came to America.

 

[Valerie]

i understand you are asking if the baby was a factor in influencing their application, and it may have been, but his birthright citizenship actually played no legal role... and who is to say they wouldn't have obtained citizenship without the baby?




...his parents had healthy incomes when they arrived, and more to the point, Occupy Democrats focused on another meaning of anchor baby — a child through whom a noncitizen can craft a path to full citizenship.

...regarding Jindal’s personal timeline... Jindal’s parents moved from India to Baton Rouge, La., on Feb. 1, 1971. Jindal was born on June 10, 1971. So that’s just about four months later.

Raj Gupta became an American citizen in 1976, and Amar Jindal followed 10 years later in 1986.

Why does that matter? Because those dates mean that Jindal’s birthright citizenship played no legal role in his parent’s citizenship applications.

Let’s see why.

21 is the magic number

Two leaders in immigration law explained that Jindal only could have helped his parents become citizens when he had turned 21 years old.

Under the 1965 Immigration and Nationality Act, the child of immigrants can sponsor them to become permanent residents. The child must be a citizen and must be 21 or older. Once the parents are permanent residents, they must live in America for five straight years. After that, they can apply for citizenship.

If Jindal’s citizenship had made any difference, the earliest his parents could have been eligible would have been 1992, five years after he turned 21.

When his mother became a citizen in 1976, Jindal was 5, and in 1986, for his father’s naturalization, he was 15. It’s not even close.

"If both parents had lawful permanent residence, then it doesn’t make a difference if they had a kid," said David Leopold, former president of the American Immigration Lawyers Association.

Lenni Benson, a law professor at New York Law School, also said that given the Jindals’ circumstances, the son’s citizenship was "irrelevant."

"Once they secured immigrant visas and became lawful permanent residents, they could seek naturalization on their own after five years of residence and meeting other requirements," Benson said.

 

[Ravi]

But...yeah. Jindal is clearly an anchor baby by the nativist's definition. A child born to non-citizen parents under US jurisdiction.

Wait! HIS PARENTS DIDN'T HAVE ALLEGIANCE TO THE U S OF A SO THE 14TH AMENDMENT DOESN'T APPLY TO JINDAL.

 

[Ernie S.]

Well, yes you are, you tool. Your parents were not citizens when they birthed you in the USA.

His parents were NOT illegal immigrants. [/thread]