2009, Daniel Sheehy,Fighting Immigration Anarchy, page63:
In the US each year, hundreds of thousands ofanchor babies are born to illegal-alien mothers.
2010, Mike McPheters,Cartels and Combinations:
I suppose you're going to tell me all about the stupidity of the gringos. By the way, you're one of them,anchor baby. Once your folks swam the river and had you over here, you started getting all the freebies, right?
2011, David Carraturo,Cameron Nation: Going All-In to Save His Country, page201:
[…] scenes of an ambulance let through the Tijuana-San Diego border and a pregnantsenorita emerging to give birth to heranchor baby.
2014, Marilyn J. Coleman, Lawrence H. Ganong, editors,The Social History of the American Family: An Encyclopedia, SAGE Publications,→ISBN:
[…]anchor babies remains a divisive issue surrounding illegal immigration in the United States.
2020 March 16, Alexandra Villarreal, “'Anchor babies': the 'ludicrous' immigration myth that treats people as pawns”, inThe Guardian[1],→ISSN:
When Donald Trump launched his campaign for the 2016 presidential election, his signature policy agenda around immigration often leaned into the “anchor baby” fallacy. Part of his platform included ending birthright citizenship for the children of undocumented immigrants, and Trump called for deporting such families.