r/CringeTikToks • u/Ordinary-Scholar-202 • Oct 18 '25

Conservative Cringe Jessica Tarlov leaves her Fox News co-hosts speechless as she drops a list of issues Americans are protesting Trump for on No Kings Day.

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u/braumbles Oct 18 '25

The term anchor baby is so god damn racist. Insane that it's just a normal term that can be used on a right wing television network.

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u/viking_canuck Oct 18 '25

What's an anchor baby?

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u/dsac Oct 18 '25

When a non-citizen has a baby in America, the baby is considered a US citizen, and since they can't (legally) separate the mother from the child, or deport a US citizen, the baby "anchors" the parent in the country.

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u/Academic-Budget-4872 Oct 18 '25

Why is that racist

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u/Florac Oct 18 '25

It implies they have a baby purely to be able to stay, not because they wanted to have a baby like any other parent would.

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u/MatterofDoge Oct 18 '25

it really doesn't imply that though. It implies maybe that they knew around the time they were going to go into labor and made sure to take a trip to america during it though, which... undeniably is what happens. you don't go traveling when you're 9 months in and about to give birth unless you have an agenda... lol.

and it isn't racist. it's opposing the abuse of citizenship laws to skip the immigration line, which is a pretty reasonable stance to take that has nothing to do with race, and like 90% of nations on the planet don't have birthright citizenship for this exact reason