Debbie Riddle makes an ass of herself on CNN 360 talking anchor babies

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No she has no evidence - she just makes up something coming up from "former FBI folks" who she won't identify. :eyes:

Little terrorists born in the US?
CNN Video Anderson Cooper
Added On August 11, 2010
Texas lawmaker Debbie Riddle warns of a new terrorist strategy that involves manipulating U.S. citizenship law.

"Dirty bombs can be walked across the southern border everyday." whines Riddle. :crazy:

Representative Rafael Anchia gets to respond to the myth of anchor babies. Debbie Riddle rudely tried to interrupt Representative Anchia. He comes across quite sane and informed.

Riddle lumps all babies born of any person not a U.S. Citizen as an anchor baby. They could be babies born to legal residents or those with work or student visas. Same difference to her. They re here to "destroy this country".

Anchia closed with a short statement about Riddle's demagoguery saying "This short term wedge issue is going to bite them in the end"

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1. Most Harris County Hospital District births to non-citizen women

MedBlog Houston Chronicle 8/11/10
Most Harris County Hospital District births to non-citizen women

(snip)
Houston state legislator Debbie Riddle's comments to CNN's Anderson Cooper last night about babies born to undocumented mothers in one Houston hospital were slightly off the mark, but highlighted this fact: Tens of thousands of children are delivered annually in Texas to women who are not citizens.

According to figures published in Sunday's Dallas Morning News, about 60,000 babies were born to non-citizens in Texas last year — roughly 16 percent of babies delivered.

On the AC360° program Tuesday evening, Riddle — a Republican who represents most of northwest Harris County — said that more than 81 percent of babies born at LBJ Hospital in Houston were delivered by undocumented women. Actually, women who were not U.S. citizens accounted for 82 percent of the 9,115 deliveries last year at the hospital district's two maternity wards — Ben Taub General Hospital and LBJ, the Morning News reported. That includes mothers who are legal residents and those with work or student visas. Because the numbers were derived from women enrolled in a program providing emergency Medicaid services for non-citizens, it's unclear how many of those babies were born to undocumented mothers.

Let's just see how this plays out next session. Photo ID to deliver law. :shrug:

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2. Across Texas, 60,000 babies of noncitizens get U.S. birthright

Dallas Morning News 8/8/10
Across Texas, 60,000 babies of noncitizens get U.S. birthright

(snip)
"The next 10 years will be an even more transformative decade demographically for Texas," said Dr. Roberto Calderon, an associate history professor at the University of North Texas and a Latin American expert following the debate.

He speculated that the Republicans probably were aware of this ongoing demographic shift and how it might threaten their party since Hispanic voters tend to support Democrats.

That's what I'm seeing too - all of a sudden the Rs realize that the numbers are stacked against them, so they're playing the terrorist anchor baby card.

But what they're forgetting is that Hispanic/Latino voters who are citizens of the U.S don't like this kind of ugly talk and they will punish the republican party for it.

Keep it up pendejos! :grr:

[onestepforward]

3. I believe that Rachel nailed it re: repukes keeping white folks afraid

of non-whites. Beck and the like are busy telling their listeners that the "white culture" is under attack! Sadly, it is working for some, especially with older folks.

This strategy isn't a winning one and is quite sick, in my opinion. Repukes will lose a lot of votes because of it and deservingly so. I guess that want to go out in flames? Hopefully America will not end up too scarred from their hateful lies and propaganda in the meantime.

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4. And it's mainly the South where the hate is working

And the South will fall again!

DailyKos 8/12/10
GOP still a regional party

Nothing has changed. The GOP is still a Southern regional white people party. From the latest NBC/WSJ poll:

The GOP has a HUGE generic-ballot edge in the South (52%-31%), but it doesn’t lead anywhere else. In the Northeast, Dems have a 55%-30% edge; in the Midwest, they lead 49%-38%; and in the West, it’s 44%-43%.

(snip)
Everyone hates everyone in DC, but they still hate Republicans the most. Of course, this doesn't mean we're out of the woods in November. There are plenty of congressional districts in the midwest and west that look more like Alabama than Minneapolis.

But for conservatives expecting the sweeping tidal wave, their own personal unpopularity still could get in the way.

And beyond this November, that unpopularity will team up with their demographic challenges (losing the brown and young votes) to create serious long-term challenges. Republicans don't currently have a viable path toward majority status, and doubling down on their teabagger-fueled nuttery isn't going to turn those things around.

I agree with Kos on this one - "Republicans don't currently have a viable path toward majority status" - which is why they lash out at the poor, at minorities and at immigrants.

Just saying - they're haters basically. :shrug:

[CoolOnion]

6. And look the guys in charge of GOP fundraising

John Cornyn for the Senate, Pete Sessions for Congress--two ignorant white guys from Texas.

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5. Wow. What a nut.

Just when I think I've heard every crazy wingnut rant in the book, along come another one. "Anchor Babies"--the new Death Panel.

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7. Exactly - the new crazy death panel

Something that is not true but will get repeated enough by the wingers to become "true" in their little minds.

All immigrants are planning terrorism - such bullshit. This will just generate a whole bunch of suspicion and more hate of all immigrants.

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8. Louie Gohmert joins Debbie Riddle is ass full of demagoguery

Talking Points Memo 8/13/10
Anderson Cooper Grills Shouting GOPer Louie Gohmert On 'Terror Babies' Conspiracy (VIDEO)
Oh, wow. Last night, Anderson Cooper hosted none other than Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-TX), the main propagator in Congress of the "terror babies" conspiracy theory -- an alleged diabolical 20- to 30-year plot by terrorists to have babies born in the United States, then taken abroad and trained as terrorists before eventually returning here as U.S. citizens (thanks to birthright citizenship) to commit heinous crimes.

Gohmert previously went to the House floor in June and warned about this evil plan, saying he had heard about it from an unnamed former FBI agent. Then on Wednesday night this week, Cooper hosted an actual former FBI official, who explained that there are no reports of this at all.

Cooper brought Gohmert on last night, and began by asking him whether he had even called the FBI agent. And from there, it turned into a nice one-way shouting match -- that is, Gohmert yelling at Cooper repeatedly. At one point Gohmert did admit that he did not check with the FBI itself: "No, I didn't talk to them, because the point is: when we did the research, we found the hole existed."

Another shouting ass hat repuke from Texas showing his stupid ass on CNN. :crazy::crazy::crazy:

[Capt.America]

9. where are all the stories in the media about enforcing workplace hiring?

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10. Oh no, don't talk about the employers

Because if you cut off their supply of cheap labor - the flood would be over. You see the employers are "victims" too Republicans claim employers are being taken advantage by immigrants. Oh those poor employers. :grr:

I'm with you - if you make it "expensive" enough for employers to discourage them from hiring undocumented immigrants then the practice would stop. But we as Americans have to be prepared to pay higher prices for lots of things too.

Just saying ... the whole immigration reform debate has lots of levels to consider.