Phoenix, Arizona (CNN) -- By spending a few days here in America's fifth-largest city -- which also happens to be at the heart of the nation's immigration debate -- I had the chance to see this volatile issue from many different vantage points. But as far I know, I didn't see any terror babies. Regular viewers of CNN's "Anderson Cooper 360" will recognize that term as referring to children born on U.S. soil to illegal immigrants. The children are automatically granted U.S. citizenship under the 14th Amendment and then are smuggled back to their home countries to be raised as pint-sized, America-hating terrorists. Then decades later, when the children have grown into adults, they could easily -- because of their U.S. citizenship -- re-enter the United States to attack it from within.
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Two Texas Republicans claim the 14th Amendment could aid terrorist goals to attack U.S.
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Ruben Navarrette says the "terror babies" fear is groundless
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He says it's the latest scare tactic being used to whip up a frenzy over immigration
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Navarrette: Let's have a debate about immigration on the merits, not on fantasy
You might say these @placeholder fear mongers were acting in a way that could be accurately described as infantile.