Donald Trump niece says her grandfather (Donald Trump’s father) was an ‘anchor baby’.
Mary Trump, the niece of President Donald Trump, who is also a staunch critic of the president, said her grandfather was an anchor baby and the best case against birthright citizenship has been the president himself. Mary referred to Donald Trump’s father Frederick Christ Trump, who was born in New York City to German immigrant parents. The post came as the Supreme Court Wednesday heard the arguments on birthright citizenship and President Trump was present there. This was the president’s first order in his second term as he declared that children born to parents who are in the US illegally or temporarily are not American citizens. As the hearing went on, Stephen Miller, the architect of Trump’s anti-immigrant decisions, made a quick social media post. “Birthright citizenship means the children of illegal aliens can vote to tax your children and seize their inheritance,” he wrote.
Who is an anchor baby?
A child born to non-citizen parents is called an ‘anchor baby’ in political discourse. Vivek Ramaswamy is often called an ‘anchor baby’ but this term has no official status and is only used politically. Donald Trump’s grandparents were both German immigrants. His grandfather Friedrich Trump immigrated to the US in 1885 at the age of 16 and became a US citizen in 1882, long before Donald Trump’s father was born in 1905.President Trump’s grandparents married in Germany in 1902, but they were denied residency there partly due to evading mandatory German military service earlier, according to records. They returned to the New York in 1905 and Trump’s father was born three months later in the US.
