Republican candidate Jeb Bush defends use of term ‘anchor babies’

The phrase has been used by Trump, the Republican frontrunner, and Bush, seen by many as the establishment favorite, while discussing immigration policy on the campaign trail.

But Bush made the political mistake of calling the children “anchor babies“, which some consider a slur. It’s like when Sarah Silverman tried to get out of jury duty by writing “I love Chinks” on her juror information form. “He should say sorry”, he writes.

New York City health officials have identified a Bronx hotel as the source of a deadly outbreak of Legionnaires’ disease. “I think he’s bringing people into this process who would pay no attention, were he not involved”. “The best way to shake those perceptions it to engage against the person who is in the media on a 24/7 loop”. The American Heritage Dictionary rightfully defines “anchor baby” as a pejorative term. He suggested describing the kids as children of undocumented immigrants was too long.

At town hall meetings Wednesday, just a few miles apart in New Hampshire, the two candidates took shots at each other, with Trump taking aim at Bush’s “low energy” and demeanor, according to CNN.

“That’s terrible if it’s the case”, Bush said of the alleged beating.

As you can tell by the “you know” that preceded the term, and the “as they’re described” that followed, the words anchor babies didn’t exactly roll off Bush’s tongue. “No, do you have a better term?”

“You mean it’s not politically correct, and yet everybody uses it?” he added.

In other words, the very voters they need when, they hope, Trump fades. I would announce on my first day as president that the new policy of the United States is to support freedom in Tehran. “Don’t use the term “anchor baby”.

In a CNBC interview published Friday, Florida Sen. People like Marco Rubio, by the way, that’s how he came. “They’re not just statistics”. In the earlier GOP debate that night, former Texas Gov. Rick Perry and businesswoman Carly Fiorina also jabbed at Trump.

Bush stood by the term in televised comments Thursday, arguing that the English language does not offer a less derogatory, shorthand substitute.

“They’re called babies”, Hillary Rodham Clinton posted on Twitter. It’s a phrase that has been used by other Republican presidential candidates in recent days, including front-runner Donald Trump, to talk about birthright citizenship for children born in the U.S.to immigrants in the country without legal status.

Polls show Trump leading in both states, and in three crucial swing-states including Bush’s home turf, Florida. I think that people born in this country ought to be American citizens. OK.

Two years ago, the Hispanic Leadership Network sent out a memo on dos and don’ts on immigration, including never using the phrase “anchor baby”. “Don’t use the term ‘anchor baby.'” Bush helped launch the group and is still a part of its national advisory committee.

Casting himself as a tax-cutting, passionate government reformer, Jeb Bush drew merely polite applause Friday from thousands of the nation’s most-active tea party conservatives gathered at the billionaire industrialist Koch brothers’ summit.

How offensive is the term to the Times?