“These are the people we WANT in the US.
We want immigrants of the RIGHT sort.
Successful Asians aren’t a drain on the resources of the country.
They are a net plus to national income.
The problem with immigration policy is not just that too many of the wrong sort are coming in but that its become quite difficult to get the right sort in.
The more elaborate workarounds, loopholes like this open the right doors, not the wrong ones.
If the legal immigration process was structured correctly there would be an effective filter to select for quality.”
Do you understand what this scam is??? These people are NOT any kind of immigrant. The come, have a baby who is deemed a US CITIZEN. Then they leave...the kid grows up and votes in OUR elections, or returns with the entire clan because of ‘family unity’.
There are VISAS for IMMIGRANTS who have $, start businesses, this isn’t what that is about! There ARE DOZENS of visa programs! Millions come in legally every year...how many do you think we should take in?
SAN GABRIEL, Calif — EXCERPT---After discovering a makeshift maternity clinic crammed with 10 newborns and a dozen Chinese women, authorities have closed three upscale town houses that were operating as a maternity center for Chinese mothers paying thousands of dollars to give birth in the United States so their children would automatically gain citizenship.
For months, neighbors noticed a number of pregnant Asian women coming and going at all hours at an upscale town-house development in suburban Los Angeles. They finally found out that three town homes were being used as a maternity center for Chinese mothers paying thousands of dollars to give birth in the United States so their children would automatically gain citizenship, said officials in San Gabriel, east of Los Angeles.
The discovery of where the women stayed before and after delivering their babies at local hospitals was unusual and a possible sign that birthright citizenship is being exploited as a lucrative business, an immigration activist said. "What this could suggest is ... they're taking it to the next step," said Mark Krikorian, executive director of the Center for Immigration Studies, which advocates stricter limits on immigration. "Whoever is organizing this type of operation is buying or leasing a home to become a clearinghouse. That's a serious problem."
But it's not illegal. Women from other countries have long traveled to the U.S. legally on tourist or student visas and given birth because U.S. law automatically entitles children born on U.S. soil to citizenship. While some stay under the false assumption that they, too, can gain citizenship if their child is US-born, many return to their home countries convinced a U.S. birth certificate will afford their child more opportunities in the future.
Often, the women are wealthy and able to pay the steep costs of the trip and medical care. In this case, authorities told the NBC News affiliate in Los Angeles that families paid up to $35,000 each for a birth visit.
Officials in San Gabriel, home to a large Asian population, closed the town houses for building-code violations this month after receiving a complaint about excessive noise, overcrowding and possible building-permit violations, said Clayton Anderson, the city's neighborhood-improvement-services manager. The mothers told officials their families had paid to send them to the United States to give birth, Anderson said.
Immigration and Customs Enforcement did not plan to investigate because the case did not involve fraudulently obtained visas, agency spokeswoman Virginia Kice said.
Republican lawmakers have moved to limit automatic citizenship for children born in the U.S. Earlier this year they said they hoped to trigger a Supreme Court review of the Constitution's 14th Amendment or force Congress to take action with legislation they drafted on the issue.
Iowa Republican Rep. Steve King sponsored a bill that would limit automatic citizenship to people with at least one parent who is a citizen, a legal permanent resident or who served in the military, but there has been little movement on the legislation.
Mayor David Gutierrez said he understood why some foreign citizens would wish to have their children in the U.S."They should certainly be commended for looking at the future welfare of their children but we need to be very careful that as a result it doesn't impact services and quality of life that we provide for U.S. residents," he said.
SOURCE http://seattletimes.com/html/living/2014592215_maternitytour25.html
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Other news stories say crimes for this activity are varied and serious.
“There is nothing in the law that makes it illegal for pregnant women to enter the United States,” Virginia Kice, regional spokeswoman for the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) told AFP. “However if a pregnant woman or anyone else uses fraud or deception to obtain a visa or gain admission to the United States, that would constitute a criminal act,” she added. “Likewise, that would also be true if someone conspires with others who then commit fraud on his or her behalf.
She noted that the “focus on in any visa fraud probe would be on the instigators or organizers, since that is key to disrupting and ultimately dismantling the criminal activity. “Often the defendants who orchestrate such schemes face violations beyond just visa fraud,” including possible conspiracy, money laundering, and making false statements, she added.
As for those who rent lodgings, they are often in purely residential neighborhoods where commercial activity is illegal. Such services could face prosecution for tax evasion, said Garcia.
They are immigrants, or soon-to-be immigrants.
We want their “entire clan”.
These are GOOD clans.
They aren’t criminals. Their incarceration rate is a fraction of US white people. They contribute more in taxes than they absorb in benefits. They fill our Engineering and Science programs. They are a massive economic net plus.
There are dozens of visa programs that let in a trickle of the sort of people we want, compared to the total immigration flow. We don’t want a trickle, we want a flood, of the best.