A “birth tourism” hotel in Orange County, California, may be shut down by the local city council after years of helping Chinese women deliver their children in the United States for the sole purpose of securing birthright American citizenship.
President Donald Trump’s curbs against “birth tourism” are discriminatory and dangerous, say pro-migration progressives.
President Trump is the first president in United States history to take action on the issue of “birth tourism,” where visiting pregnant foreign nationals travel to the country to secure their children birthright American citizenship, expert Jessica Vaughan says.
President Trump is seeking to halt the flow of “birth tourism,” the practice of foreign visitors arriving in the United States only to secure their U.S.-born children birthright American citizenship, by issuing a new regulation for State Department officials.
Roughly 33,000 United States-born children are delivered to foreign women who arrived in the country on tourist visas, new estimates reveal.
A Chinese national was sentenced to less than a year in prison on Monday for operating a “birth tourism” agency for more than two years in Orange County, California.
A Chinese national pleaded guilty in federal court this week to charges that she operated a “birth tourism” agency for more than two years in Orange County, California.
An average of about 124,000 children of illegal aliens, commonly referred to as “anchor babies,” have been born in the United States this year thus far, analysis of Census Bureau data concludes.
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.
Three “birth tourism” agencies secured citizenship for more than 8,500 babies born to foreign nationals, primarily from China, and profited at least $7 million in the process, federal prosecutors say.
A total of 20 individuals were arrested by federal authorities on Thursday after being accused of operating “birth tourism” businesses which essentially sold birthright American citizenship to pregnant Chinese women looking to permanently stay in the United States.
Chinese and American entrepreneurs are using a visa loophole in border regulations to sell the hugely valuable prize of U.S. citizenship to hundreds of Chinese people.
Immigration fraudster Jason Shiao was sentenced on Monday to two years in federal prison for posing as an attorney as part of a fraud scheme to match at least 87 foreign nationals, mostly citizens of China, seeking legal permanent resident status through arranged, fraudulent marriages to U.S. citizens.
Rep. Judy Chu (D-CA), the first Chinese-American woman elected to Congress, slammed GOP presidential candidate Jeb Bush Tuesday for defending his use of the term “anchor baby” by arguing that the term “is more related to Asian people.”
The Center for Immigration Studies estimates there could be as many as 36,000 births a year to foreign mothers manipulating America’s citizenship laws by visiting the United States just to deliver a child who will then be a U.S. citizen.
After having been busted for a scheme to have U.S. citizen babies here, Chinese women are fighting to stay in the country despite allegedly committing visa fraud.ving been busted for the practice, they are fighting to stay in the country despite allegedly committing visa fraud.
Pregnant Chinese nationals have reportedly been coming to the United States for decades in order to give birth and claim U.S. citizenship for their children. Many newly-rich Chinese have done so not only to secure the benefits and protections that come with U.S. citizenship, but also, according to court documents and media reports, as a show of wealth and status.
Sen. David Vitter (R-LA) has introduced a measure that would end birthright citizenship. He added it as an amendment to the Justice for Victims of Trafficking Act, a bipartisan bill currently under consideration in the Senate.
Pregnant women from China discovered in California “Chinese birthing houses” could likely still give birth in the U.S. during the course of a massive investigation into multiple “maternity tourism” schemes. “Birth tourism” operations bring pregnant women into the U.S. for the purpose of giving birth on U.S. soil, giving their babies U.S. citizenship.
Tuesday Federal Agents forced entry into twenty Southern California locations believed to be orchestrating “maternity tourism” scams for pregnant alien women aiming to gain U.S. citizenship for their soon to be born child.
