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Every now and then the issue of “anchor babies” comes up. This is the name given disparagingly to infants born in the US of illegal alien mothers. Under current interpretation of the 14th Amendment these babies are automatically native born citizens of the USA. Some bigoted conservatives and some honest conservatives (I leave it to you to have an opinion on the ratio of one to the other) claim this is wrong as their moms will then say they has to be allowed to stay in the US to take care of the children born here, and then start bringing in the rest of the family on the principal of reuniting families. Hence the nickname “anchor babies” invented by bigots.
So now that I’ve offended both bigots by calling them bigots and also liberals who find the nickname mentioned above offensive, let me ask my question. Some woman crosses the Rio Grande when it’s actually got fast moving water that can kill her as she is going into labor or tries to make it across the desert at risk of dying of thirst. Her hope is that her child will be born in the US, probably delivered in the field by a Border Patrol Agent. She experiences great hardship and risks her life so that her “bebi” can be born in the US. Now here’s the question, what the hell are you doing to make the US a country worth a woman risking and possibly losing her life (consider the dangers of eclampsia which I don’t think BP Agents are prepared to handle for starters) to make sure her child is a citizen of the United States of America?
Maybe we should work more on making America a country worthy of these women’s risk and stop worrying about the horrors of kids of illegal aliens being born in the US, or the evil of denying them this citizenship. After all, between authoritarians of the right and authoritarians of the left, by the time you are done messing up my country, don’t be surprised if the “anchor babies” emigrate to Mexico to get out of a “shithole country.”
A.X. Perez
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[ Don't worry, Albert, America will be there before ya know it, then we can all start trying to sneak across the border to … well … I dono ….— Editor ]
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This is How Bad It Is Out There…
So I am at Walmart scanning and bagging my almost $300 worth of groceries while the employee that wants $15 an hour "monitors" and then this happened:
Her — Why are you double-bagging all of your groceries?
Me — Excuse me?
Her — You are wasting our bags!
Me — If you don’t like the way I’m bagging the groceries, feel free to come on over here and bag them yourself.
Her — That’s not my job!
Me — Okay, then I will bag my groceries how I please if that’s all right with you.
Her — Why are you using two bags?!
Me — Because the bags are weak and I don’t want the handles to break or the bottoms to rip out.
Her — Well, that’s because you are putting too much stuff in the bag. If you took half of that stuff out and put it in a different bag then you wouldn’t need to double bag.
… 10 seconds of me just staring at her.
Me — So you want me to split these items in half and put half of them in a different bag so that I don’t have to double-bag.
Her — Exactly.
Me — So I would still be using two bags to hold the same number of items.
Her - No, because you wouldn’t be double-bagging.
… Me, pressing two fingers to my left eye in an attempt to make it stop twitching.
Me — Okay, so here I have a jug of milk and a bottle of juice double bagged. If I take the milk out and remove the double-bagging and just put the milk in the single bag and the juice in that single bag I’m still using two bags for these two items.
Her — No, because you are not double-bagging them so it’s not the same number of bags.
… Me, looking around at about 10 other customers who at this point are enjoying the show.
Me — Is this like that Common Core math stuff I keep hearing about?
Her — Never mind. You just don’t get it.
And with that she went back to her little podium so she could continue texting or playing games on her phone or whatever it was she was doing before she decided to come over and critique my bagging skills.
L. Neil Smith
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