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A New Baby Boom? Foreign 'Birth Tourists' Seek U.S. Citizenship for Children

Foreigners Find Ways to Beat U. S. Citizenship Barriers

By Jerry McConnell
Saturday, July 10, 2010

For many years people around the world have marveled at how the United States has been so innovative and creative using good old fashioned common sense to solve knotty problems and find solutions to overcome bureaucratic hurdles.

In essence, it has greatly helped this country become number one in just about any phase of life, or commerce. We truly were the greatest country in the world.

But in recent years, many foreign countries have used our very own mantras of excellence and brilliance to outsmart us. One of those situations is the ‘citizenship by birth’ solution to gain something that would otherwise be very unattainable, or at the very least, very difficult.

It all starts with a provision of our United States Constitution, the Fourteenth Amendment, enacted after the Civil War to grant citizenship to descendants of slaves.

On July 09, 2010, Act for America showed an article by ABC News written on April 14, 2010 by Devin Dwyer titled, “A New Baby Boom? http://www.actforamerica.org/

Foreign ‘Birth Tourists’ Seek U.S. Citizenship for Children

More Foreign Mothers Live Abroad to Give Birth on U.S. Soil, Debate Over 14th Amendmentâ€

There was an article several months ago in the South Florida media about women coming here from Venezuela and giving birth here. There are even doctors who advertise for them to come here. These are the wealthy who do so and pay their hospital bill. A friend of mine also told me about wealthy Central Americans doing the same.