bubbling below the surface is the fact that a child of illegal immigrants born in the United States -- derided by some as "anchor babies" -- could one day be president. Under the 14th Amendment to ...

An curved arrow pointing right. The highly contested term "anchor baby" has been thrown around a lot recently, especially by Republican presidential candidates Jeb Bush and Donald Trump.

These illegal immigrants are tethering themselves here with millions of anchor babies. That's not a talking point. It's a fact.

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Number three, we're gonna deport. We're gonna deport a lot of people, 10 million people and growing - anchor babies, their parents, their grandparents. We're gonna put kids in cages. It's gonna be ...

Nikki Haley is an anchor baby, born in the United States to noncitizen immigrant parents from India. Should she have been denied citizenship? Famous anchor babies include Walt Disney and Colin Powell.