Anchor Babies & Latin Jazz

For all the nitwits who believed the reaction to Hurricane Katrina was a calculated move - or even worse, Katrina’s severity scientifically blown up - to rid New Orleans of its minority population should take heart.

The Times reports:

In the latest twist to the demographic transformation of New Orleans since it was swamped by Hurricane Katrina last year, hundreds of babies are being born to Latino immigrant workers, both legal and illegal, who flocked to the city to toil on its reconstruction.

Rest assured the morons and bigots will grapple onto this for dear life. It’s another opportunity to jump onto the Illegal Immigration non-issue again. What a lively debate about the real issues facing our nation and our neighbors!

Everybody knows there are zero white people who work in construction. I myself have never seen a white carpenter, nor a white drywaller, not a white tiling contractor. They simply don’t exist. It’s all part of the ‘jobs Americans won’t do’ list.

It also adds a new and incredibly American word to the lexicon. “Anchor baby.”

Anchor baby: a pejorative term used to refer to a child born in the United States to illegal immigrants or other non-citizens. The baby becomes the “anchor” of the chain by which its family may receive benefits from social programs, and by which that family’s members may themselves eventually become citizens of the United States.

Anyone want to get a pool going as to how long it’ll be before we see “anchor baby” scroll across the bottom of Fox News?

There’s a certain level of poetic justice to a democratic stronghold’s obliteration, only to be repopulated with the children of much-hated illegal immigrants.

But I’m excited to hear the sounds coming out of New Orleans within a few decades. You can add a flamenco guitar to that mean sax and splash symbol.

Can you dig?