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| Trump administration to issue new visa restrictions aimed at curbing 'birth tourism' |
| 2020-01-23 |
| [FoxNews] The Trump administration is planning to introduce new visa restrictions aimed at restricting “birth tourism,” whereby women travel to the U.S. to give birth so that their children automatically become U.S. citizens, according to officials. The new rules would make it harder for pregnant women to travel on a tourist visa. In one draft of the regulations, pregnant women would have to convince a consular officer that they have another legitimate reason to come to the U.S. before obtaining the visa. The State Department planned to publicize the rules Thursday, according to two officials with knowledge of the plans who spoke to The Associated Press on the condition of anonymity. A spokesperson said the rules are "intended to address the national security and law enforcement risks associated with birth tourism, including criminal activity associated with the birth tourism industry.” Birth tourism is a lucrative business in both the U.S. and abroad. American companies take out advertisements and charge up to $80,000 to facilitate the practice, offering hotel rooms and medical care. Many of the women travel from Russia and China to give birth in the U.S. President Trump has railed against the practice and threatened to end it, though members of his administration have said ending birthright citizenship -- which is guaranteed under the Constitution -- is not so easy to do. There are no figures on how many foreign women travel to the U.S. specifically to give birth. The Center for Immigration Studies, a group that advocates for stricter immigration laws, estimated that in 2012, about 36,000 foreign-born women gave birth in the U.S., then left the country. |
| Posted by:Skidmark |
| #4 Pretty sure the Court will rule against this. |
| Posted by: Glenmore 2020-01-23 10:03 |
| #3 Airline asks woman to take pregnancy test before boarding flight to Saipan, cites island's immigration concerns |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2020-01-23 08:47 |
| #2 Anchor babies are the result of 'interpretation' by SCOTUS. The clear intent of the 14th Amendment was to prohibit southern states from classifying former blacks slaves as non-citizens. Blacks were residents a priori to the Amendment, even specifically, if not 100 percent, counted to enumeration. Since enumeration was so important to be accounted, they were already legally here. |
| Posted by: Procopius2K 2020-01-23 07:21 |
| #1 Insist that pregnant women on a visa get an abortion upon arrival in the US. Watch lefty heads explode. |
| Posted by: M. Murcek 2020-01-23 00:31 |