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Mike Lee removes “anchor babies” from website – will Tim Bridgewater follow suit?

Posted by Tom Grover on May 3, 2010
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Ethan Millard noticed that Mike Lee’s website has removed the term “anchor babies.”

MikeLee2010.com before:

MikeLee2010.com after:

I’ll be honest, I’m pleasantly surprised.

The term “anchor babies,” though offensive to some moderates and liberals, posed absolutely no threat to Lee at convention.  None.  As I noted earlier, if anything, he stood to gain from it’s use- especially if he were criticized for it.

It’s just a couple of words.

But Mike Lee deserves to be recognized for doing the right thing- especially when the right thing isn’t necessarily the politically expedient thing.

Candidates for high office don’t often behave like this.

Way to go Mike!

The next question is- will Tim Bridgewater also pull anchor babies from his website?

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Should Mike Lee & Tim Bridgewater stop using the term “anchor baby”? Is it dehumanizing?

Posted by Tom Grover on May 1, 2010
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From Ethan Millard:

As part of his immigration platform, Senate candidate Mike Lee promises to fix the “anchor baby problem”.

“Anchor baby” implies that while you and I have babies out of love, illegal immigrants have babies to trick the United States Government.

You an I may want to build a family, illegal immigrants just want to build an economic advantage. Because they’re not like us. They don’t value the same things we do.

It is a shameful way to maliciously dehumanize illegal immigrants and I call on Mike Lee to remove the language from his website immediately.

In the mean time I would love for Mike Lee to demonstrate how an illegal immigrant can win citizenship by having a baby in the United States.

Even if mainstream Utahns found the term to be dehumanizing, Mike Lee & Tim Bridgewater probably get a lot of mileage from it among Republican delegates.

I tend to agree with Ethan. The term assumes that illegal immigrants only have children to game the system. The baby is not a person but a means to an ends. The parent-child relationship is one of convenience, not of love.

Seems pretty dehumanizing to me.

So, what do you think? Is the term “anchor baby” dehumanizing or is Ethan Millard wrong?

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