‘Terror Babies’

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It’s the perfect convergence of anti-immigration and anti-Islam fear mongering: terrorists will come to the U.S. to have babies on U.S. soil so that they become U.S. citizens and can slip easily back into the country once they grow up and kill us all!

CNN’s Anderson Cooper has been going after this nonsense. Last night he had on Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-Crazytown) who went completely unhinged when Cooper pressed him to provide evidence of this “threat.” Watch.

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