Posted on 01/10/2020 12:07:20 PM PST by Theoria
Japanese citizen Midori Nishida was checking in to a flight in Hong Kong in November to visit her parents on Saipan, a U.S. island in the Pacific, when airline staff made an unusual demand. She had to take a pregnancy test if she wanted to board.
Ms. Nishida, 25 years old, was escorted to a public rest room and handed a strip to urinate on.
The test was part of the response of one airline, Hong Kong Express Airways, to immigration concerns in Saipan. The island has become a destination for women intending to give birth on U.S. territory, making their babies eligible for American citizenship. In 2018, more tourists than residents gave birth in the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, in which Saipan is the largest island.
Pregnant foreigners aren’t barred from entering the U.S., or from giving birth in U.S. territory. But immigration authorities can turn away visitors if they are found to be lying about their purpose of travel, or if they come to the U.S. planning to have a medical procedure, such as giving birth, but can’t prove they have the funds to pay for it.
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Even people from advanced countries want their children to be American. Such an awful, racist, misogynist, backward place this much be.
No citizenship ever without legal residency should have always been the standard.
Progressivism is a cancer.
I read the article in the WSJ. It seemed like a bold-faced call to arms for Trump resistance in immigration.
A dirty little secret about Saipan is that they also have garment factories which employ a large number of third world women so they can finish clothing with the "Made in the USA" label. Guam and Saipan shopping centers are famous for selling the same.
Good!
“Ms. Nishida, 25 years old, was escorted to a public rest room and handed a strip to urinate on.”
The WSJ should know it’s ‘restroom’ not ‘rest room.’
In many parts of Asia, it would known as a “comfort room.”
https://www.dictionary.com/browse/rest-room
Dictionary.com is okay with it.
And it’s “meat space” not meatspace. Which you would know if you ever tried to say the meatspace is next to the potatospace. It don’t look right.
Part of Guam...
Interesting factoid about the garment factories! So many con games that hurt American workers.
That’s right. Birth tourism is a trait of Third World denizens, not Japanese.
Did not know that about Guam and Saipan. Thanks for the heads up!
Not even the chance of naturalization down the road?
Not even the chance of naturalization down the road?
The topic is about those who parents were but tourists, right? Or by extension the children of all illegal aliens, who should all be excluded.
It is not about the children of lawful residents who have taken up real residency here.
Thus my comment was about assigning citizenship just because they pop out here. That is what should never be tolerated.
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