It’s even more unusual to stay on a crime scene long enough to give birth there—but illegals do it all the time.
Birth tourism on the other hand is practically not illegal. It’s big business.
This lady, for example, was pictured in an Istanbul news article about Turkish women traveling to America to give birth.
The Hürriyet Daily News [Istanbul] wrote on March 12, 2010
“With more Turkish parents wanting their child to be born in the US, tourism companies are starting to offer ‘birth tourism’ packages to US cities. Many women say giving birth in the US has benefits including cheaper education and fewer visa worries….
“According to tourism expert Gürkan Boztepe and media sources, 12,000 Turkish children have been born in the U.S. since 2003.The numbers are significant enough to draw the attention of tourism companies and inspire them to pursue ‘birth tourism.’…
The Turkish women would buy a vacation package that would allow them to stay three or four months—you can’t fly from Turkey to New York if you’re 8 1/2 months pregnant for both airline and immigration reasons.
One of the places you could stay was a Turkish-owned hotel called the Marmara Manhattan, named after Turkey’s inland Sea of Marmara.
It cost about $45,000 to stay there until the child was born—and I don’t know how the hospital expenses were paid, but it may have been legitimately paid by the parents, because these are fairly well off people in comparison to illegals, ALL of whose medical expenses are paid by the taxpayer.
The idea is to go back to Turkey with the infant and his American birth certificate, leaving Junior in a position, when full grown, to come “back” to the US to live and work—and possibly sponsor his parents’ immigration.
There are birth tourism hotels all over America, advertised on the internet and in Chinese papers.
In 2008, Steve Sailer found a website called ChineseBabyCare dot com, no longer live, but probably still in business under another name, which listed eight benefits to a well-off Chinese family having their child born on American soil.
You can read Steve’s full article here, but while a lot of the eight benefits deal with college, free education, and financial aid for college ()hence the girl in the academic gown above) the seventh and eighth were:
7. Your child’s future with the U.S. Social Security card, to enjoy various social welfare measures, the United States and medical equipment
Self-explanatory, I hope (or fear).
ChineseBabyCare.com’s eighth point:
8. Your children face the future place of residence if the war, the United States citizenship are entitled to protect the evacuation of U.S. government
For example, if your Chinese kid is working for a Chinese oil company in some Middle Eastern oil country, and suddenly the place turns into a real life Mad Max movie, the Pentagon will airlift him out—gratis!
Someone who worked in the US Diplomatic Service told me that while working in a Middle Eastern country, he had the job of keeping up lists of American citizens who might need evacuation, and he asked a senior employee why there were so many Americans scattered around rural areas of said primitive country, and the older man told him “They’re not actually Americans, they’re locals who have somehow acquired American citizenship.”
The poster boy for not giving the children of foreign visitors American citizenship is this man.
Wikipedia says
Anwar Al-Awlaki was born in Las Cruces, New Mexico, U.S., in 1971 to parents from Yemen. Growing up partly in the United States and partly in Yemen, he attended various U.S. universities in the 1990s and early 2000s.
After which he joined Al Qaeda outside the United States, and became the first “U.S. citizen to be targeted and assassinated by a U.S. government drone strike.
But as Steve Sailer pointed out above, if he hadn’t done that it would’ve been America’s responsibility to rescue him from Yemen or wherever.
All “birthright citizenship” needs to be abolished—stopping birth tourism would be a good start.
