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Citizenship for sale?
Arizona Daily Star ^ | Mariana Alvarado

Posted on 06/21/2009 1:00:59 PM PDT by SandRat

A Tucson hospital's health-care package promises affluent Mexican women the chance to have their babies in posh surroundings with access to the latest medical equipment.

But the marketing materials leave out a key draw in the arrangement: U.S. citizenship for the newborn.

Tucson Medical Center's "birth package" gives an official nod to a generations-old practice of wealthy Mexican women coming to U.S. hospitals to give birth. Mexican families do the same thing at all local hospitals, but TMC is the only one actively recruiting their business.

The practice is legal, but offensive to some advocates of tougher U.S. immigration standards.

(Excerpt) Read more at azstarnet.com ...


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; Government; Mexico; US: Arizona
KEYWORDS: aliens; anchorbabies; az; citizenship; healthcare; hospitals; illegalaliens; immigrantlist; medicine; sold
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1 posted on 06/21/2009 1:00:59 PM PDT by SandRat
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To: HiJinx; Borax Queen; idratherbepainting; AZHSer; Sabertooth; A Navy Vet; Lion Den Dan; ...

Border


2 posted on 06/21/2009 1:01:28 PM PDT by SandRat (Duty, Honor, Country! What else needs said?)
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To: SandRat

They don’t have enought business so they need to advertise?


3 posted on 06/21/2009 1:09:13 PM PDT by ElayneJ
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To: SandRat

I didn’t know the Spaniard derived Mexican upper class did this.


4 posted on 06/21/2009 1:09:47 PM PDT by GOPGuide
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To: SandRat

Border bump


5 posted on 06/21/2009 1:12:40 PM PDT by dcwusmc (We need to make government so small that it can be drowned in a bathtub.)
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To: SandRat
Citizenship for sale?

This is just wrong. Not only are we allowing the lifeboat to be overloaded, we're allowing some of those already in the boat to punch holes in the bottom.

6 posted on 06/21/2009 1:13:27 PM PDT by snarks_when_bored
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To: SandRat

This is why we need to take care of this anchor baby crap! If your mother and/or father are not U.S. citizens, you aren’t either. Saying someone is an American citizen when their parent sneaks across the border to have the baby is just a dumbass idea.


7 posted on 06/21/2009 1:15:06 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (Hey America! How's that "hope and change" thing working out? Are you scared yet?)
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To: SandRat

This is a scam known in all overseas countries, didn’t you know about it?

Japanese actresses brag about using it on TV in Tokyo;

... all rich Mexicans use it.

Heck, even poor tourists use it by just staying a little bit longer, or inducing labor (not big labor) early.

As far as I can tell, the U.S.A. is the only country out of 220 world-wide countries to allow this loophole, and has so for more than 200 years.

And of course once little Joey is a new American he can invite Mom, Grand-mom, and all his cousins to become Americans too. Why do you think LA is inhabited by people who will laughingly tell you to your face that soon LA will be owned by others? Ask a few and see what answers you get ...

No politician is willing to talk about it, change it, or even inform you of it. But believe me, all non-U.S, citizens know it very well indeed.


8 posted on 06/21/2009 1:19:13 PM PDT by DontTreadOnMe2009 (So stop treading on me already!)
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To: FlingWingFlyer
That should include LEGAL permanent resident, Green Card holders.
9 posted on 06/21/2009 1:22:08 PM PDT by WellyP
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To: snarks_when_bored

One only need to look at California to see what is destroying every state in this union.


10 posted on 06/21/2009 1:25:00 PM PDT by unixfox (The 13th Amendment Abolished Slavery, The 16th Amendment Reinstated It !)
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To: unixfox

The anchor baby thing is less than a century old.


11 posted on 06/21/2009 1:30:10 PM PDT by Roamin53 (Islamists kill more people each year in the name of religion than the Inquisition did in 350 years!)
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To: SandRat
I have also heard of affluent south Koreans doing this as well. It gets the children out of the mandatory military service.
12 posted on 06/21/2009 1:40:31 PM PDT by Kid Shelleen (Barack the Messiah: Never in the field of US politics have so many waited so long for so little.)
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To: SandRat

Hawaii has been doing this since 1961.


13 posted on 06/21/2009 1:46:04 PM PDT by usmcobra (Your chances of dying in bed are reduced by getting out of it, but most people still die in bed)
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To: SandRat

“but TMC is the only one actively recruiting their business.”

The author doesn’t know what she is talking about. It destroys her credibility in the whole article. At least since the 60s I’ve seen articles ... and employment ads... for hospitals that hire a person specifically to attract rich pregnancies from other countries. It’s not just Mexico. It’s the world. And its been going on a long time.


14 posted on 06/21/2009 1:56:06 PM PDT by spintreebob
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To: FlingWingFlyer
This is why we need to take care of this anchor baby crap! If your mother and/or father are not U.S. citizens, you aren’t either.

That's my take on how it should be.

15 posted on 06/21/2009 1:57:22 PM PDT by SandRat (Duty, Honor, Country! What else needs said?)
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To: unixfox
One only need to look at California to see what is destroying every state in this union.

How about W's Mexican pages on whitehouse.gov, from which I saved this titlebar:

Even the 'W the Good' was clueless about sovereignty and had lots of Mexican lingo on his website!

Los Estados Unidos, indeed!!

English for America

16 posted on 06/21/2009 2:23:37 PM PDT by skeptoid (AA, UE, MBS [with oak leaf clusters])
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To: SandRat

Thanks for the ping.


17 posted on 06/21/2009 2:35:31 PM PDT by GOPJ (Chubby people live longer - by years! Hey food police - we're putting a tax on tofu and sprouts!)
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18 posted on 06/21/2009 5:25:25 PM PDT by Tennessee Nana
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To: DontTreadOnMe2009

“As far as I can tell, the U.S.A. is the only country out of 220 world-wide countries to allow this loophole, and has so for more than 200 years.”

Apparently not: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jus_soli#Specific_national_legislation . Birth tourists come to this country, too. Personally, I’m kind of envious of those who have dual citizenship - nice to have two countries from which you cannot legally be denied entry. Could definitely come in handy.


19 posted on 06/21/2009 5:37:15 PM PDT by -YYZ- (Strong like bull, smart like ox.)
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To: -YYZ-

I thought the US didn’t allow dual citizenship, so I was surprised to hear that obama has it (I think he does, right?). Looks like that was the case until 1967 or 1980 court cases that struck it down. I bet if we still had that ban in place we would have fewer of these birthright citizenship cases.
I lived in south Texas in the 80s and it was common for women to come across the border, give birth, and then go back (or not). I know it’s only gotten much worse since then. I never liked the idea of our country being used in that way. Like everyone says, come in legally - don’t break our laws. Why is that so hard for the government to understand?


20 posted on 06/21/2009 5:51:21 PM PDT by ElayneJ
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