Posted on 04/12/2013 8:22:32 AM PDT by DiogenesLamp
L.A. County Cites 16 ‘Maternity Hotels’ Serving Asian Visitors
LA Times reports the following:
Following a flurry of complaints, Los Angeles County inspectors have cited 16 “maternity hotel” owners for illegally operating boardinghouses in residential zones.No major health or safety issues were found at the hotels, where women from Asia stay to give birth to U.S. citizen babies. But some of the facilities, which were in Rowland Heights or Hacienda Heights, were cited for building and fire code violations, according to a report released Thursday.
(Excerpt) Read more at thegatewaypundit.com ...
How is this any different than women crossing the southern border to have their babies in American hospitals?
Earlier stories reported that these Asian MTB were not impoverished immigrants—they rode the US gravy train.
Their trips here were financed by rich relatives-—the chain migration once the babies were born meant more riches.
They all knew exactly where all the US govt buried treasure freebies were.
They never thought that the Government they designed would ever be taken over by idiots either.But that’s what has happened.
Professional politicians that wouldn’t know a days work if it bit them on the ass.
If they found 16 then there are 160 more. A Chinese baby with a US passport is worth a lot of money. But, our politician’s don’t want to stop this because most recent Asian immigrants support RATS with money and don’t want restrictions on bringing more relatives to the US..a safe haven from China, or some other Asian country.
“Every Person born within the limits of the United States, and subject to their jurisdiction, is by virtue of natural law and national law a citizen of the United States. This will not, of course, include persons born in the United States who are foreigners, aliens, who belong to the families of ambassadors or foreign ministers accredited to the Government of the United States, but will include every other class of persons.”
Senator Jacob Howard,
co-author of the citizenship clause of the 14th Amendment, 1866.
http://towncriernews.blogspot.com/search?q=14th+amendment
If any of our legislooters were serious about ‘immigration reform’, they would address the bastardization of the 14th amendment. It was never meant to be ‘squat and drop’ citizenship.
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.
“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.
It is not different. It is exactly the same thing. It just so happens that this story is about this particular group.
Citizenship by being born on the soil makes perfect sense if you are a King and require that these people be your “Subjects” (another word for servants.) It is a nonsensical and ridiculous idea for a Republic with highly desired and valuable citizenship.
Professional politicians that wouldn’t know a days work if it bit them on the ass.
They will ride this horse into the ground until it dies.
It is these "Citizenship of the World" folk that are screwing up Europe also.
Both Ann Coulter and George Will make this point in different articles.
http://www.humanevents.com/2010/08/04/justice-brennans-footnote-gave-us-anchor-babies/
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/03/26/AR2010032603077.html
“It is an established maxim, that birth is a criterion of allegiance. Birth, however, derives its force sometimes from place, and sometimes from parentage; but, in general place is the most certain criterion; it is what applies in the United States.” Madison
Whether we want them or not is irrelevant to the point. We have laws that enumerate the proper procedure for becoming an American Citizen, and this tactic is an end-run around those laws. I wanted Bernard Goetz to get away with shooting those guys on the subway, but we have laws against shooting people, so Bernard Goetz had to be dealt with in accordance with our laws.
We are a nation of laws, not preferences.
And you come with that out of context quote. Madison also said that if there was a Law in South Carolina which defined citizenship in South Carolina, then it would make the answer to the question much simpler.
According to Madison, a LAW trumps the "established maxim."
We are not going to accept a piece of stupidity on the basis of some obscure and out of context quote from James Madison. That the policy is stupid is obvious for all to see.
Your two links, including the Ann Coulter article, are not applicable to what you are decrying. They are out of context - and I will supply the context.
The Brennan (sp?) footnote that Coulter was against said that the 14th applied to people ILLEGALLY in the USA, as well as to people legally here. The 14th applies to children born of visitors or residents of the USA who are here legally.
The term "established maxim" means that it is a custom or a principle, not that it is an enacted law. In this assertion Madison is correct. English Common law is the default authority in cases where there is no State statute which addresses an issue, but you are trying to turn it into positive law which it is not.
Your two links, including the Ann Coulter article, are not applicable to what you are decrying. They are out of context - and I will supply the context.
My links are out of context? Really? Was there enough information in the links so as to imply some sort of context with which they could be out of? The links merely connect to the entire article. You are spouting nonsense.
The Brennan (sp?) footnote that Coulter was against said that the 14th applied to people ILLEGALLY in the USA, as well as to people legally here. The 14th applies to children born of visitors or residents of the USA who are here legally.
The entire point of the article is that ANCHOR BABIES are not legitimate citizens. Here, let me show you an "out of context" quote from the Ann Coulter article.
The drafters of the 14th amendment had no intention of conferring citizenship on the children of aliens who happened to be born in the U.S. (For my younger readers, back in those days, people cleaned their own houses and raised their own kids.)
Yeah, that's pretty misrepresented all right. Obviously Ann is trying to say the exact opposite of that quote.
Pull the other one.
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