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单词 anchor baby
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anchor baby
anchor baby n. originally and chiefly North American (usually considered offensive) a child born to an immigrant mother living illegally in the United States, and thus qualifying for legal citizenship under U.S. law, especially when considered as a means of securing citizenship or legal residency for other family members; cf. anchor child n.
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1993 Immigration & Naturalization Service's Gen. Operations & Budget: Hearing before Subcomm. Internat. Law, Immigration, & Refugees Comm. (U.S. House of Representatives, 102nd Congr., 2nd Sess.) 154 TV images of fraud at airports, anchor babies along the U.S. Mexico border, and ‘banzai runs’ at U.S. ports of entry are all having their impact on public opinion.
2007 E. J. Erler in E. J. Erler et al. Founders on Citizenship & Immigration ii. 26 The populations of entire villages in Mexico have been transplanted to the United States almost intact, the ‘chain-migration’ having begun with one anchor baby.
2014 C. A. Gallagher & C. D. Lippard Race & Racism in U.S. I. 51/1 Certain state lawmakers..have spurred the creation of state laws looking to..reinterpret the Fourteenth Amendment and close..a loophole..encouraging the proliferation of anchor babies.
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