Posted on 07/17/2010 11:19:39 PM PDT by KingofZion
What can $1,475 buy you in modern China? Not a Tiffany diamond or a mini-sedan, say Robert Zhou and Daisy Chao. But for that price, they guarantee you something more lasting, with unquestioned future benefits: a U.S. passport and citizenship for your new baby.
Zhou and Chao, a husband and wife from Taiwan who now live in Shanghai, run one of China's oldest and most successful consultancies helping well-heeled expectant Chinese mothers travel to the United States to give birth.
The couple's service, outlined in a PowerPoint presentation, includes connecting the expectant mothers with one of three Chinese-owned "baby care centers" in California. For the $1,475 basic fee, Zhou and Chao will arrange for a three-month stay in a center -- two months before the birth and a month after. A room with cable TV and a wireless Internet connection, plus three meals, starts at $35 a day. The doctors and staff all speak Chinese. There are shopping and sightseeing trips.
The mothers must pay their own airfare and are responsible for getting a U.S. visa, although Zhou and Chao will help them fill out the application form.
At a time when China is prospering and the common perception of America here is of an empire in economic decline, the proliferation of U.S. baby services shows that for many Chinese, a U.S. passport nevertheless remains a powerful lure. The United States is widely seen as more of a meritocracy than China, where getting into a good university or landing a high-paying job often depends on personal connections.
"They believe that with U.S. citizenship, their children can have a more fair competitive environment," Zhou said.
There are no solid figures, but dozens of firms advertise "birth tourism" packages online, *** "The customers we serve are very successful and very affluent,"
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Sounds good to me. Add anyone not in the country legally and you have a real winner here.
I have been telling every American for years that overseas Asians and Iranians openly laugh about their takeover of Los Angeles, and elsewhere.
We are being laughed at.
No change in the US.
Yes, it is long past time to amend the Constitution regarding anchor babies and tourist citizenship.
But since my wife is from China, I personally think we should allow Chinese women to immigrate freely...
Sometimes, Liberalism and lack of ethnic pride will make you slaves of those who treasure their own children to fight for them.
We watch American Idol and choke down McDonald’s fries.
“At a time when China is prospering and the common perception of America here is of an empire in economic decline, the proliferation of U.S. baby services shows that for many Chinese, a U.S. passport nevertheless remains a powerful lure.”
The Liberal Left Wing Looney WaPo writer still can slam his own country even when the Workers Paradise of China is the ideology he craves.
Liberalism is a sickness.
This is rampant in all of South Asia, Korea, and ME countries. It is one heck of a racket.
Canada repealed their version of the anchor-baby law somes years ago because of immigration concerns. Now the US stands alone as the biggest chump.
Only if they are Not Guilty. (Which most of them are. LOL!)
Someone needs to tell these people about affirmative action. No Asians need apply.
American citizenship now comes like a toy in a Happy Meal. Just get a tourist visa and have your kid here, and then you can bring in the whole family. It’s part of the compassion shtick.
The harder way is to sneak across the border and then wait for “comprehensive immigration reform.” But that works too.
It’s all part of fthe disintegration of nationhood.
Chairman Mao proposed sending 10 million Chinese women to US: documents
http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5hyMhwroFlOgzPE61X3P0AVEmxCHA
Perhaps a Freeper with more advance HTML skills could post a few photos so that we might contemplate the merits of this proposal.
Ping!
Cool. Shold only take about 100 million of them - a round off error in their population - to effect a permanent takeover of the U.S. in favor of their country.
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