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DonViejo

(60,536 posts)
Wed Aug 26, 2015, 02:46 PM Aug 2015

Bobby Jindal: No, I'm Not An 'Anchor Baby'

Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal (R) said Tuesday at an event in Iowa that he is not an "anchor baby."

The declaration came in response to a question from an audience member after Jindal spoke about his parents' immigration from India to the United States, joking that he was a "pre-existing condition" at the time, according to The Des Moines Register.

"Did I hear you say you were an anchor baby?" the audience member asked, as quoted by the newspaper. "No, no, I'm not," Jindal responded. He went on to ascribe talk about him being an "anchor baby" to progressives and labelled the chatter a distraction from the real issues, according to The Des Moines Register.

Jindal followed presidential rival Donald Trump's lead last week in calling for an end to the policy of birthright citizenship, which automatically grants citizenship to children born on U.S. soil regardless of their parentage.

As TPM previously reported, a fringe movement of self-described "strict constitutionalists" believe that Jindal isn't even eligible to mount a presidential campaign because his parents were not naturalized U.S. citizens at the time of his birth. But Jindal does indeed qualify as "natural born" citizen, according to a 2011 report from the Congressional Research Service on presidential eligibility requirements.

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Bobby Jindal: No, I'm Not An 'Anchor Baby' (Original Post) DonViejo Aug 2015 OP
Doesn't matter Bobby,you still won't win SummerSnow Aug 2015 #1
Ah, the party of hatred, fear, mistrust and racism! PatrickforO Aug 2015 #2
he sounds like an 'anchor baby' to me Angry Dragon Aug 2015 #3
this guy is so embarrassing JI7 Aug 2015 #4
Nothing real special about him. lpbk2713 Aug 2015 #5
He and Clarence Thomas should get aaaaaa5a Aug 2015 #6
There is something seriously wrong with that guy tularetom Aug 2015 #7
I don't like the term but TlalocW Aug 2015 #8
sorry, piyush, no matter how hard you try you'll never be a WASP. KG Aug 2015 #9

SummerSnow

(12,608 posts)
1. Doesn't matter Bobby,you still won't win
Wed Aug 26, 2015, 02:47 PM
Aug 2015

Well this,Congressional Research Service on presidential eligibility requirements did also do the same for Obama right?

aaaaaa5a

(4,667 posts)
6. He and Clarence Thomas should get
Wed Aug 26, 2015, 03:00 PM
Aug 2015

together and throw a party!

Given the modern history of the political base of the GOP, I have never understood how any minority could be a republican.

tularetom

(23,664 posts)
7. There is something seriously wrong with that guy
Wed Aug 26, 2015, 03:06 PM
Aug 2015

And it has nothing to do with him being or not being, an anchor baby.

TlalocW

(15,392 posts)
8. I don't like the term but
Wed Aug 26, 2015, 03:25 PM
Aug 2015

How is he not? Were his parents citizens of the USA when he was born? I thought they had come primarily for certain degrees.

TlalocW

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