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Birth Tourism on the Rise

Monday, September 24, 2012, 6:28 PM EDT


Birth tourism – an industry that helps wealthy foreign women give birth in the United States and get citizenship for their babies – appears to be growing in California, according to the Sacramento Bee. The thousands of dollars these women spend later gives their children easy access to American universities and jobs. It also opens up green cards for the entire family after the child becomes 21.
According to the National Center for Health Statistics, 7,719 children were born in the United States to mothers who lived overseas. That is an increase of almost 55 percent since 2000. NCHS data likely understate the totals, critics say, because it only includes information reported by parents during hospital stays. No one knows the actual number of birth tourists but the trend is on the rise. There are more than 40 maternity operations that host 1,000 women in the Los Angeles area alone.
Birth tourists typically enter the United States on a tourist visa when their pregnancy is near term. They give birth and recuperate in style while their baby gets top-notch care. After spending about $15,000 for the whole process, the mothers return home with their U.S. passport-bearing baby in tow.
Those who work in the industry claim that the practice is in line with the “spirit” of the Constitution, and that the United States benefits. "We bring cash to pay for our births; we go back to our country to raise the child, and then he comes back to work and pay taxes to the U.S. government.”
It may be legal for a foreign woman to have a baby in the United State but women who intend to do so often lie on their visa applications, saying they are traveling for pleasure or to visit family. An ICE spokeswomen said, "The question is whether or not people are lawfully obtaining a visa and appropriately representing the purpose of their visit." Lying to on a visa application is a federal crime, but difficult to prosecute.
Mark Krikorian, head of the Center for Immigration Studies, said, "What we're doing is conferring citizenship on people who don't have a connection to this country. The idea that visitors from abroad who intentionally come to give birth to U.S. citizens would have been considered absurd by the framers of the (14th) Amendment."


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Elected Officials Who...

• Sponsored the Birthright Citizenship Act of 2011 (H.R.140)
  Updated Tuesday, June 19, 2012, 11:49 AM EDT

Total 90 Sponsors

• (AL) Alderholt
• (AL) Bachus
• (AL) Brooks
• (AL) Rogers
• (AL) Schweikert
• (AZ) Franks
• (AZ)Gosar
• (AZ)Quayle
• (AR) Crawford
• (AR) Griffin
• (AR) Womack
• (CA) Bilbray
• (CA) Calvert
• (CA) Campbell
• (CA) Herger
• (CA) Hunter
• (CA) McKeon
• (CA) Miller
• (CA) Royce
• (CO) Coffman
• (CO) Lamborn
• (FL) Adams
• (FL) Bilirakis
• (FL) Mica
• (FL) Miller
• (FL) Nugent
• (FL) Posey
• (FL) Ross
• (FL) Stearns
• (FL) West
• (GA) Broun
• (GA) Gingrey
• (GA) Graves
• (GA) Kingston
• (GA) Westmoreland
• (GA) Woodall
• (IL) Manzullo
• (IN) Burton
• (IN) Stutzman
• (IA) King
• (KY) Davis
• (LA) Alexander
• (LA) Fleming

• (LA) Landry
• (LA) Scalise
• (MD) Bartlett
• (MD) Harris
• (MI) Benishek
• (MI) Upton
• (MI) Walberg
• (MN) Cravaack
• (MN) Klein
• (MS) Palazzo
• (MS) Harper
• (MS) Nunnelee
• (MO) Akin
• (MO) Graves
• (NE) Fortenberry
• (NC) Foxx
• (NC) Jones
• (NC) Myrick
• (NE) Smith
• (NJ) Garrett
• (OH) Schmidt
• (PA) Barletta
• (PA) Fitzpatrick
• (PA) Murphy
• (SC) Duncan
• (SC) Scott
• (SC) Wilson
• (TN) Black
• (TN) Duncan
• (TN) DesJarlais
• (TN) Roe
• (TX) Brady
• (TX) Burgess
• (TX) Carter
• (TX) Conaway
• (TX) Culberson
• (TX) Gohmert
• (TX) Hall
• (TX) Hensarling
• (TX) Johnson
• (TX) Marchant
• (TX) Neugebauer
• (TX) Poe
• (TX) Sessions
• (VA) Forbes
• (VA) Goodlatte
• (WV) McKinley

Official H.R. 140 cosponsor list


Elected Officials Who...

• Sponsored the LEAVE Act (H.R.1196)
  Updated Friday, July 8, 2011, 12:20 PM EDT

Total 8 Sponsors

• (AL) Brooks
• (CA) Bilbray
• (CA) Campbell
• (CA) Miller

• (CA)Royce
• (NC) Myrick
• (PA) Platts
• (TX) Marchant

Official H.R. 1196 cosponsor list


Elected Officials Who...

• Sponsored the Birthright Citizenship Act of 2011 (S.723)
  Updated Friday, May 27, 2011, 7:49 AM EDT

Total 5 Sponsors

• (AR) Boozman
• (KS) Moran
• (KY) Paul

• (LA) Vitter
• (UT) Lee

Official S. 723 cosponsor list




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