GOP leader Vivek Ramaswamy is not new to social media trolling as he’s asked to go to India every time he posts something on X. As the Ohio Guv hopeful posted a family picture celebrating the Fourth of July, it was a repetition of the same situation — people asking him what he has to do with July the Fourth and that he should go back to India, celebrate either in Mumbai and Gujarat — summing up a few reactions to his post. “I wonder if any of your family or friends will get deported under Trump’s regime? Maybe your wife will leave you if her family members get deported,” one particularly hateful comment read. Vivek Ramaswamy’s wife Dr Apoorva Tewari is also from India but was born in the US. “You should celebrate with your family in Gujarat or Mumbai,” another comment read.“Did you redeem the freedom fries and the anchor baby citizenship,” another read.
Is Vivek Ramaswamy an anchor baby?
Vivek Ramaswamy came under renewed hatred after President Donald Trump ended birthright citizenship. The US has given automatic citizenship to anyone born in the country but Trump said this was not meant for everyone and hence he wants to change the rule. This was contested but is now in a dubious state as the Supreme Court said lower courts can’t nationally stay the president’s executive order but did not mention Trump’s birthright citizenship order. Vivek Ramaswamy is called an anchor baby as he was born to a non-citizen mother. But is it true? Yes, Ramaswamy admitted that his mother took the citizenship test after he was born and his father did not take it and is not a US citizen. It was his father’s decision for familial reasons, he said. But his parents immigrated to the US legally and Ramaswamy was born in Cincinnati. “I want to be very clear about this. I think that birthright citizenship does not and should not apply to the kids of parents who entered this country illegally,” Ramaswamy said earlier. Indian-origin Ramaswamy has already made a record by raising the highest fund while the Ohio Guv election midterm is one year away.
