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"The term "illegal immigrant" is not valid as a legal concept, because the US law defines an "immigrant" as a person who was lawfully admitted for permanent residence. [7]" from Illegal immigration
A person is not "illegal". I would like to recommend the change to "undocumented" everywhere it is used in this article.
A less offensive term would be "citizenship by birthright baby" or shortened, to "birthright baby". It is true that leaving a child relative in the US (who is a citizen) does allow the parents and siblings to obtain a tourist visa because "visiting relatives" is a valid reason for obtaining a tourist visa. It is right on the application! — Preceding unsigned comment added by 73.34.74.224 ( talk) 03:04, 22 August 2015 (UTC)
JoyceD ( talk) 19:04, 18 April 2014 (UTC)
It says pejorative. I haven't heard a "politically correct" (soft words) term for anchor baby, so until that happens I feel it should be removed — Preceding unsigned comment added by 184.91.99.69 ( talk) 23:12, 24 March 2017 (UTC)
Anchor Baby is not a term solely used to describe the behaviour of Latinamerican families in the US. It is also a term to describe Chinese and African Birth Tourism in Canada, Australia, France, etc. The article also immediately opens up with a WP:UNDUEWEIGHT machine-gun fire of WP:TOOMANYCITATIONS of pro-immigrant Editorials in liberal or pro-immigration leaning Newspapers followed by dubious language trying to cast doubt over whether the phenomenon actually exists (it does), creating a breach of WP:NPOV by painting the word as some kind of racist derogatory word in line with phrases like "currymuncher", "beaner", etc. which is false and a blatant sign that the writer likely had an agenda to push.
Fadendra1 ( talk) 05:36, 14 September 2018 (UTC)
Agreed. The controversy section is one sided, citing trivial "non-PC" cases of the presumed offences. Zezen ( talk) 11:02, 1 February 2019 (UTC)
The first sentence of the 14th Amendment explicitly requires legal residency, this has been pointed out by many, and was reaffirmed in the 1898 Supreme Court decision. Wikipedia should make this clear. Illegal immigrants do not have legal residency and so are not covered by the 14th Amendment. 47.201.182.47 ( talk) 13:50, 20 June 2019 (UTC)
A discussion is taking place to address the redirect Drop and leave. The discussion will occur at Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2020 August 14#Drop and leave until a consensus is reached, and readers of this page are welcome to contribute to the discussion. Hog Farm Bacon 15:06, 14 August 2020 (UTC)
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"The term "illegal immigrant" is not valid as a legal concept, because the US law defines an "immigrant" as a person who was lawfully admitted for permanent residence. [7]" from Illegal immigration
A person is not "illegal". I would like to recommend the change to "undocumented" everywhere it is used in this article.
A less offensive term would be "citizenship by birthright baby" or shortened, to "birthright baby". It is true that leaving a child relative in the US (who is a citizen) does allow the parents and siblings to obtain a tourist visa because "visiting relatives" is a valid reason for obtaining a tourist visa. It is right on the application! — Preceding unsigned comment added by 73.34.74.224 ( talk) 03:04, 22 August 2015 (UTC)
JoyceD ( talk) 19:04, 18 April 2014 (UTC)
It says pejorative. I haven't heard a "politically correct" (soft words) term for anchor baby, so until that happens I feel it should be removed — Preceding unsigned comment added by 184.91.99.69 ( talk) 23:12, 24 March 2017 (UTC)
Anchor Baby is not a term solely used to describe the behaviour of Latinamerican families in the US. It is also a term to describe Chinese and African Birth Tourism in Canada, Australia, France, etc. The article also immediately opens up with a WP:UNDUEWEIGHT machine-gun fire of WP:TOOMANYCITATIONS of pro-immigrant Editorials in liberal or pro-immigration leaning Newspapers followed by dubious language trying to cast doubt over whether the phenomenon actually exists (it does), creating a breach of WP:NPOV by painting the word as some kind of racist derogatory word in line with phrases like "currymuncher", "beaner", etc. which is false and a blatant sign that the writer likely had an agenda to push.
Fadendra1 ( talk) 05:36, 14 September 2018 (UTC)
Agreed. The controversy section is one sided, citing trivial "non-PC" cases of the presumed offences. Zezen ( talk) 11:02, 1 February 2019 (UTC)
The first sentence of the 14th Amendment explicitly requires legal residency, this has been pointed out by many, and was reaffirmed in the 1898 Supreme Court decision. Wikipedia should make this clear. Illegal immigrants do not have legal residency and so are not covered by the 14th Amendment. 47.201.182.47 ( talk) 13:50, 20 June 2019 (UTC)
A discussion is taking place to address the redirect Drop and leave. The discussion will occur at Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2020 August 14#Drop and leave until a consensus is reached, and readers of this page are welcome to contribute to the discussion. Hog Farm Bacon 15:06, 14 August 2020 (UTC)