Send California Your Anchor Babies

The Only ‘Problem’ with These Newborns Is That the Golden State Doesn't Have Enough of Them

You better anchor me, baby.

Because I find it impossible to write with restraint when politicians start using babies—babies using babies!—to prey on prejudice and misinform the public in the service of winning votes.

That’s exactly what’s happening in the Republican presidential contest, as Donald Trump and his opponents make xenophobic nonsense about “anchor babies” the number one issue in the race. I won’t rehash here all the ways that people who actually know something about immigration have debunked this fantastical idea that hordes of pregnant immigrants are coming here to have …