Controversy that's going on with the surrounding counties such as Prince Williams, Spotsylvania, Fredericksburg and may others, dealing with immigration, and not to mention my topic.
We often here the gossip, those foreigners always coming over here and take our jobs, I know I heard when I first arrived in U.S. The only different, with me I was legal.
The immigrants have a chance at a better life, and there are going to take it the best way they know how. I am not saying it is right, it’s the employers who are wrong and they know it. The employer are employing the illegal with out green cards, reusing SSN numbers, and cramming more than one family in to a home and paying less than minimum wage, they are finally having to come up with records and now the workers are suffering, when they show have done this in the beginning.
My co worker and I were having a conversation shortly after we return from a class last week. The topic of how many babies born to illegal immigrant living in the United States and what it costing the tax payers came up. Well you guessed it, and one of my class mates also gave me an idea for my next topic.
There are called anchor babies:
Babies born to illegal Immigrant (alien) mothers within U.S. borders are called anchor babies because under the 1965 immigration Act, they act as an anchor that pulls the illegal alien mother and eventually a host of other relatives into permanent U.S. residency. (Jackpot babies are another term). http://www.theamericanresistance.com/issues/anchor_babies.html
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I think this post would have been much more successful if you had stayed with the "anchor babies" theme for the whole entry. I have a friend whose son was born here (she's from Trinidad) and she didn't get citizenship through him; I wonder if the "anchor baby" thing is just another ruse that conservatives are throwing out there to keep the culture of fear alive?
Refocus these posts so that you get the most mileage out of each entry. Use hyperlinks sparingly, just in specific places, and embed them in words that signal to us where you're taking us. This also feels a bit more like a draft than a final submission.
Illegal immigration is a big talk these days; it seems to continue to be a bigger issue every day. I have never heard that term of anchor babies though. I liked how you talked about your issue outside the class, but I didn’t really get the whole feel of the anchor babies theme. You introduced it but didn’t go into a lot of detail about it, I am curious to know maybe statistics on how many anchor babies approximately born a year in U.S.? What do you suggest for us to do?
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