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Mary Giovagnoli, the director of the Immigration Policy Center, posted a new blog about the “dramatic reversal in the definition” of the term “anchor baby.”
In their initial definition, executives for American Heritage Dictionary didn’t include any notation that the phrase was offensive or disparaging. But they have since corrected their entry online at ahdictionary.com and will update the hard copy of the dictionary.
Giovagnoli writes, in part, at immigrationimpact.com:
This
is the kind of controversy that doesn’t fade away quickly, and many
argue that the term is so offensive that it shouldn’t appear in the
dictionary at all. I understand but disagree with that position, largely
because the term, however offensive, exists as a political and
practical reality. I think the new definition validates what many
outraged voices in blogs, on Twitter, and in the press have been saying
all along: “anchor baby” is a term that shouldn’t exist but does because
immigration restrictionists are really good at creating words that
generate fear.
