[Political Junkie Too]

The term "anchor" could be generally used to define non-citizen parents legally in a county *temporarily* (as in tourist or student visas) who use the birth of a child to alter their status to something more permanent, or to enable extended family to emigrate who might not otherwise be able.

Hypothetically, would it not have been possible for the elder Cruz to use the baby Cruz to justify siblings to come to Canada from Cuba to help raise Canada's newest citizen?

-PJ

[Yaelle]

Good question. I don’t know much about Canada’s citizenship laws. Of course, I don’t think Cruz or his sister (brother?) were anchor babies. But I knew a woman who was born in France to two Americans and couldn’t get a work permit there, even though she had spent every moment of her entire life there. Not every country has birthright citizenship.