On the December 12 edition of Comedy Central's The Colbert Report, host Stephen Colbert took a swipe at anti-immigrants who have criticized the American Heritage Dictionary for revising its "anchor baby" entry.

The American Heritage Dictionary recently added “anchor baby” as an entry that read as a neutral term, provoking enough criticism that the publishers agreed to modify it, with the change made online yesterday.

The degree to which the immigration debate has coarsened over the last few years is no more evident than in the pages of the recently released fifth edition of the New American Heritage Dictionary. Among the new entries is the term “anchor baby.”