The loaded term ‘anchor baby’ conceals complex issues

The loaded term ‘anchor baby’ conceals complex issues
- August 26, 2015
- Louis DeSipio, Chicano/Latino studies and political science professor, is quoted in the Los Angeles Times and Lodi News-Sentinel Aug. 26, 2015
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From the LA Times:
Louis DeSipio, a professor of political science at UC Irvine, said the notion that
parents have children in the U.S. to protect themselves from deportation is a departure
from reality …. "It would take an amazingly tactical or Machiavellian parent to somehow
think that the child's status protects the parents," he said.
For the full story, please visit http://www.latimes.com/local/california/la-me-anchor-babies-20150827-story.html.
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