Since his parents were legal immigrants at the time, little Marco would not technically be considered an anchor baby. His parents didn’t have the need to use their citizen-baby as reason not to be deported.
Exactly, “anchor baby” is intended to penetrate into America and it’s system, when you are not legally entitled to by other means.
This has come up about Jindal as well, whose mother was pregnant when they came here.
His parents were here legally, but not as immigrants, the wife was pregnant with Bobby when they arrived, the father was very reluctant to accept the (wife’s) scholarship in the first place, but was talked into coming to America so that she could accept it.
Bobby’s Mother;
“Raj was the daughter of a bank manager. She first came to America on a scholarship to study for her doctorate in nuclear physics at Louisiana State University.”
Bobby’s father;
Though the university health plan denied coverage for the birth (it was ruled a “preexisting condition”), the one-month paid maternity leave was awarded as promised — that was the perk that had tipped the scales for Amar, who’d been hesitant to leave home, having worked his way up through the ranks to the respected position of assistant professor of engineering at Punjab University in Chandigarh, the newly dedicated capital city of their home state.