On Monday, Republican presidential candidate Jeb Bush referred to Asian “anchor babies.” By Monday night, a 15-year-old Redondo Beach high school student created a response: #MyAsianAmericanStory, a Twitter conversation on the lives and experiences of Asian Americans.
The Florida governor’s comments came during an interview as he tried to explain that his controversial comments about “anchor babies” were “more related to Asian people” who he said were committing “fraud” in order to “take advantage of a noble concept, which is birthright citizenship.”
“Anchor baby” is a term for a child birthed by a mother who is in the U.