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The broader issue is, you know, why are we having a discussion about anchor babies. if a person has a child here, that child cannot petition for their parents or a sibling to be here in the united states for a period of ten years and that petition can only begin after they are 21 years old. so the -- for people to suggest that people are coming here and having babies as a way to anchor themselves on an undocumented basis in this country is just not correct. the law doesn't bear that out. just because you have a child here doesn't mean thaw can't be deported tomorrow. it doesn't mean that you g...

It but amused. i would rather have a flight attendant relate to me as a human being than be on the end of passive aggressive politeness. i was interviewing a flight attendant and she wanted to be anonymous but she shared with me that a lot of flight attendants have a fantasy of doing this very thing. would you throw tomato juice all over the demanding -- >> i feel so much for flight attendants. the people that they have to deal with on any given day. flying is a nightmare and they are up there for hours and hours and hours. i give them a lot of credit. >> a tough job. >> why do you think this ...

I love children. but the fact is, this is breaking the back of the taxpayers of texas and the united states. >> okay. >> it's taking down our health care, our education, and it is a huge, huge burden. >> representative -- >> that are coming across to have the children for the entitlement programs, for the health and the education and everything else that goes with it. >> representative riddle -- >> anybody that denies that isn't telling the truth. >> out of the 60,000 estimated children born every year in texas, in your state to illegal immigrants, how many are actually here for that purpose a...

Working or not, and they have a baby, then that would come under the term anchor baby. that is what we're taking about. that is breaking the back of the taxpayers. >> representative? >> yeah. thank you, anderson. the reality is that an anchor baby, according to the terms that representative riddle would use is a baby that a mother has here in the united states, if they are undocumented, in order to somehow anchor that undocumented family in the state. and current federal law does not permit that. it just does not happen under u.s. law. >> you're not denying the point that some people do come h...

The term anchor baby. that he is what we're taking about. that is breaking the back of the taxpayers. >> representative? >> yeah. thank you, anderson. the reality is that an anchor baby, according to the terms that the representative riddle would use is a baby that a mother has here in the united states, if they are undocumented, in order to somehow anchor that undocumented family in the state. and current federal law does not permit that. it just does not happen under u.s. law. >> you're not denying the point that some people do come here because they want their child to be a u.s. citizen. >>...