Pregnant Middle Eastern Women Delivering ‘Anchor Babies’ in Chicago

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Pregnant Middle Eastern Women Delivering ‘Anchor Babies’ in Chicago

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JOHN BINDER 24 May 2019

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Pregnant Middle Eastern women are taking advantage of the United States’ policy that gives foreign nationals the ability to secure American citizenship for their children so long as they are born within the parameters of the country.

A local report by ABC 7 Chicago detailed how pregnant foreign nationals are traveling to the U.S. to deliver their children to ensure that they are given American citizenship.

One doctor who spoke with ABC 7 Chicago, Dr. Mia Norlin, said most of the women she sees in Chicago hospitals taking advantage of the country’s birthright citizenship policy are from the Middle East.

“Most of the patients I’ve taken care of are from Middle Eastern countries,” Dr. Norlin said. “We looked into it to make sure that it was legal … it’s different than most of our patients.”

The report noted that websites advertising to help foreign pregnant women come to the U.S. to deliver their children often offer six-figure packages. As Breitbart News has chronicled, in Florida, pregnant Russian women have fueled a baby boom in regions of the state as they arrive in the country to make sure their children get U.S. citizenship.

The U.S.-born children of foreign nationals, specifically those visiting the U.S. and illegal aliens, are commonly known as “anchor babies.” There are at least 4.5 million anchor babies in the country, a population that exceeds the total number of annual American births in 48 states, as about 300,000 anchor babies are born every year.

Currently, the U.S. and Canada are the only developed nations in the world that offer unrestricted birthright citizenship.

About one-in-five U.S. births — or 791,000 — are to legal and illegal immigrant mothers, with legal immigrant mothers accounting for about 12.4 percent of those births and illegal alien mothers accounting for 7.5 percent.

The U.S. Supreme Court has never explicitly ruled that the children of illegal aliens must be granted automatic American citizenship, and many legal scholars dispute the idea. Trump promised last year to end birthright citizenship through executive action, but the order has yet to be revealed or signed.

In a recent birth tourism crackdown, federal immigration officials revealed that three birth tourism companies allegedly helped more than 8,500 anchor babies secure American citizenship. In the process, the three companies profited at least $7 million.

John Binder is a reporter for Breitbart News. Follow him on Twitter at @JxhnBinder.

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Birthright citizenship ..... another promise Trump has ignored!

Give them a "Certificate of Child Born Abroad"



Load them on a plane and get them out of here!!!

Birth tourism controversy: Foreign women travel to deliver babies, gain U.S. citizenship for newborns

Birth tourism has sparked debate over who is entitled to U.S. citizenship

By Chuck Goudie and Barb Markoff

Wednesday, May 22, 2019 10:45PMCHICAGO (WLS) -- Women are traveling thousands of miles from their home countries to have their babies in the United States so their newborns go home U.S. citizens. It's called birth tourism and experts say it is a growing trend here and across the country.

The 14th amendment of the U.S. Constitution essentially says you become a U.S. citizen if you are born on American soil.


Local OB-GYNs tell the I-Team they have patients who come here from other countries and pay out of pocket to deliver their babies in the United States.

A May 2019 federal government report shows the U.S. birth rate is at a 32-year-low. According to the Center for Immigration Studies, an organization known for favoring low immigration, there are tens of thousands of people who list a foreign address on their child's birth certificate.

The group estimates there are anywhere between 35,000 to hundreds of thousands of birth tourism births every year in the United States.

The U.S. is one of only 35 countries in the world that recognizes birthright citizenship.






GROWING TREND: Tonight at 10 the I-Team investigates birth tourism. Why are foreign women coming to the U.S. to have their babies?






Foreign websites advertise packages costing up to $150,000 that include medical costs, high-end accommodations and help with paperwork to obtain U.S. passports for the newborns. These companies are touting U.S. citizenship will provide easier access to U.S. universities and how American born children can sponsor their parents' immigration to the United States once they turn 21-years-old.

Just before the mid-term elections, President Donald Trump said he wanted to issue an executive order ending birthright citizenship for children born in the U.S. to unauthorized immigrant parents, but made no mention of "birth tourism" babies.


"I think the lack of attention at least on a political level is intentional," said Sonia Canzater, an attorney with the O'Neill Institute at Georgetown University.

She is a U.S. citizen based on being born here to immigrant parents. Canzater told the I-Team she believes people are coming to America to "get citizenship for their children kind of more as accessories."

Federal raids in Southern California and a several year investigation led to a number of birth tourism business workers being charged in January with fraud for instructing women to lie on visa applications and hide their pregnancies from airport customs agents.

"It does feed into the larger organizations that are coaching these people to lie that are absolutely gaming the system that are really set up for illegal purposes," said ABC7 legal analyst Gil Soffer.

There is no data on how prevalent birth tourism is here. All of the major hospitals in metro Chicago either denied or ignored the I-Team's requests for interviews.

Officials at the Department of Homeland Security and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement also ignored our repeated requests for comment.https://abc7chicago.com/family/birth...rns--/5313467/

There's Muslims ALL OVER THE PLACE around here now in the Chicago. They aren't paying any big $$$$ to get over here to dump there babies. They just fly over to a relatives house and I really doubt most of them ever leave. They just work at their relatives business or get married through the Mosque and they're IN with their new baby.

It is VISA FRAUD to do this!

Revoke that child's citizenship and revoke the whole families Visa's!!!

THEY ARE NOT U.S. CITIZENS AND SHOULD NEVER HAVE BEEN ISSUED THOSE DOCUMENTS!