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TOURISM AND TRAVEL:
ADJECTIVAL TOURISM AND NICHE TOURISM: MATERNITY TOURISM :
IMMIGRATION EMIGRATION MIGRATION :
LAW: UNITED STATES:
Maternity Tourists: The New Immigration Scourge
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Maternity Tourists: The New Immigration Scourge
California authorities close a maternity center where wealthy Asian
tourists give birth to babies who become U.S. citizens. Is this dodge a
growing problem?
posted on March 30, 2011, at 1:52 PM
The Week
http://theweek.com/article/index/213685/
maternity-tourists-the-new-immigration-scourge
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http://tinyurl.com/3f8uh8b
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Authorities in San Gabriel, Calif., recently shut down a makeshift
maternity center for pregnant Asian tourists. The expectant moms, many
from wealthy backgrounds, allegedly wanted to give birth on American soil,
so their babies would be U.S. citizens. Is this an isolated case, or is
"maternity tourism" a serious immigration problem? Here, a brief guide:
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How did this operation work?
So how'd they get caught?
For months, people in the suburban Los Angeles neighborhood had noticed
numerous pregnant Asian women coming and going from the upscale
townhouses, at all hours. After receiving complaints, government
inspectors visited and found 12 Chinese women, and 10 newborns in clear
plastic bassinets in a kitchen converted to a nursery.
Were they arrested?
Is this a common problem?
No one knows how many pregnant women enter the country each year with the
express purpose of acquiring citizenship for their newborns.
Haven't I heard congressmen debating this issue?
Video
http://video.theweek.com/video/Maternity-tourists-site-shut-do;
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'Maternity tourists' site shut down
http://tinyurl.com/6xuk4ww
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'Birthing tourism' center in San Gabriel shut down
Pregnant women came from China to three identical townhouses to receive
care before and after giving birth to U.S. citizens at local hospitals.
March 25, 2011
By Ching-Ching Ni
Los Angeles Times
http://articles.latimes.com/2011/mar/25/
local/la-me-birthing-center-20110325
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On March 8, code enforcement officials shut down three identical
four-bedroom townhouses functioning as an unlicensed birthing center.
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The homes, officials said, had been converted into maternity centers.
Inside, they found about 10 mothers and seven newborns.
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"The people were sitting and eating at a table. All the babies were in
bassinets with a nurse attending to them," said Jennifer Davis, San
Gabriel's director of community development.
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The city fined the manager of the property, Dwight Chang of Arcadia, $800.
He was cited for illegal construction and ordered to acquire permits and
return the buildings to their original condition.
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"They had moved walls around without proper permits. They did interior
work that can sometimes create unsafe environments afterwards," Davis
said. "And it's a business in a residential neighborhood. They are not
permitted to operate there."
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Real Anchor BabiesFrom China, Not Mexico
Wednesday, March 30, 2011
Born in the USA
All Gov
http://www.allgov.com/Top_Stories/ViewNews/
Real_Anchor_Babies__From_China_Not_Mexico_110330
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The 14th Amendment to the United States Constitution gives automatic
citizenship to any baby born in the United States. Immigrants arriving in
the United States to give birth so their children will automatically
become American citizens are not just poor or from Latin America, as
anti-immigration advocates insist. Some are wealthy and from China, as a
recent case in Southern California demonstrates.
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Erbe:
'Maternity tourism' in San Gabriel could change immigration views
Submitted by SHNS on Wed, 03/30/2011 - 12:43
By BONNIE ERBE,
Scripps Howard News Service
editorials and opinion
http://www.scrippsnews.com/node/60633
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This is the kind of story that can change one's view on immigration.
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I'm not herewith criticizing individual immigrants. They are, for the most
part like any other people---good, honest, hard workers seeking economic
freedom. I am talking however about revisiting the phenomenon of today's
mass immigration prompted not by a desire for amnesty or to escape
political repression or certain death based on one's political beliefs,
but simply on the basis of trying to partake in America's largesse.
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The New York Times and many online news organizations this week reported
the shut down of a San Gabriel, Calif., group of townhouses that for
months were the homes to so-called maternity tourists. Who are they, you
ask? In the San Gabriel case, they were well-off women from China who had
paid tens of thousands of dollars to deliver their babies in the United
States. By order of so-called birthright citizenship, the U.S. delivery of
those infants makes them automatic American citizens. Local officials shut
down the homes, sending the 10 mothers who had been living there with
their babies to nearby motels.
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According to the Times, "These were not women living in squalor. It was a
well taken care of place and clean, but there were a lot of women and
babies," said Clayton Anderson, a city inspector who shut down the house
on March 9. "I have never seen anything like this before. We really
couldn't determine the exact number of people living there."
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Let's all agree the number of maternity tourism births is relatively low.
But it's emblematic, nonetheless, of some troubling trends in U.S.
immigration. Particularly at a time when debate over so-called birthright
citizenship is roiling some sectors of the country, the San Gabriel
episode proves those opposed to birthright citizenship are hardly on the
loony fringe.
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Arriving as Pregnant Tourists, Leaving With American Babies
A house in San Gabriel, California was discovered to illegally house new
mothers from China in a makeshift birthing center for visiting Chinese
parents. The New York Times looks at the growing business of maternity
tourism, for wealthy parents from China and elsewhere who pay huge sums to
ensure their child can get a U.S. passport:
China Digital Times
http://chinadigitaltimes.net/2011/03/
arriving-as-pregnant-tourists-leaving-with-american-babies/
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http://tinyurl.com/3ubynrt
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Immigration experts say it is impossible to know precisely how widespread
maternity tourism is. Businesses in China, Mexico and South Korea
advertise packages that arrange for doctors, insurance and postpartum
care. And the Marmara, a Turkish-owned hotel on the Upper East Side in New
York City, has advertised monthlong baby stays that come with a stroller.
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The San Gabriel town houses are nestled in a small street lined with
modest houses, small apartment buildings and palm trees. A construction
crew was at work late last week, closing up walls that had been knocked
down between units, in violation of the housing code.
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Signs of a makeshift maternity house were evident everywhere. In one
kitchen, stacks of pictures showing a mother holding her days-old baby sat
next to several cans of formula. In another, boxes of prenatal vitamins
were tucked into rice cookers. Several bedroom doors had numbers on them.
Some rooms were rather luxurious B9, for instance, had a large walk-in
closet, a whirlpool and a small personal refrigerator.
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The Center for Health Care Statistics estimates that there were 7,462
births to foreign residents in the United States in 2008, the most recent
year for which statistics are available. That is a small fraction of the
roughly 4.3 million total births that year.
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Immigration experts say they can only guess why well-to-do Chinese women
are so eager to get United States passports for their babies, but they
suspect it is largely as a kind of insurance policy should they need to
move. The children, once they turn 21, would also be able to petition the
United States government to grant their parents permanent residence
status.
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Not the legal way
Daily American
http://www.dailyamerican.com/opinion/editorials/
da-ot-not-the-legal-way-20110331,0,3014726.story
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http://tinyurl.com/3fyhrn6
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About 340,000 of the 4.3 million babies born in the United States in 2008,
or 8 percent, had at least one parent who was an illegal immigrant.
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Those are the most recent figures available from the Pew Hispanic Center,
a nonpartisan research group in Washington, D.C.
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Because they were born in this country, the babies of illegal immigrants
are United States citizens. About 84 percent are Hispanic.
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Members of Congress are now questioning the constitutionality of the grant
of automatic citizenship to children born in the United States whose
parents are illegal aliens. The infants are nicknamed anchor babies. As
citizens of the United States, those children have the right to sponsor
the immigration of family members.
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Chinese Anchor Babies Hedge Bets on National Supremacy
Posted Wednesday, March 30, 2011 4:15 PM |
By Tom Scocca
Scocca
Slate
http://www.slate.com/blogs/blogs/scocca/archive/2011/03/30/
chinese-anchor-babies-hedge-bets-on-national-supremacy.aspx
A shorter URL for the above link:
http://tinyurl.com/3wxgr95
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At bottom, though, this story should soothe the patriotic soul. The real
news here is that some number of enterprising and wealthy Chinese people
still think it's worth "tens of thousands of dollars" to get United States
citizenship for their children. So they, at least, don't foresee America
collapsing under the strain of excess immigration (or Chinese debt).
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Our View: Born in the U.S.A., just passing through Posted: 03/31/2011
05:57:24 PM PDT
Pasadena Star-News
http://www.pasadenastarnews.com/opinions/ci_17746278
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There are many troubling aspects to the revelation that relatively wealthy
pregnant Chinese women are flying into Los Angeles, heading straight for
the increasingly Asian suburbs of the San Gabriel Valley, and waiting for
labor to set in so that their children can claim United States
citizenship.
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Other than the zoning-code violations at the tacky, haphazardly
constructed, prototypically Megaterranean town houses in San Gabriel where
one such group of women was found last week, there is nothing illegal as
such about what is going on here.
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But since we first began reporting on the trend, authorities and our
reporting have turned up maternity tourism in Temple City, Arcadia,
Rowland Heights and Walnut, among other cities. We're proud to be at the
heart of the Asian-American cultural and economic boom. But we're not at
all proud to be associated with this.
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Famously, the 14th Amendment to our Constitution, though enacted during
Reconstruction to ensure the citizenship - finally - of former slaves,
endows United States citizenship to all those who are born on our shores.
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This is a very unusual practice in the great wide world. Most countries,
including those it is hard to imagine desiring to become a citizen of,
make it incredibly hard for foreigners to attain their citizenship. And in
some of the world's wealthiest countries - most notably, Switzerland and
Japan - families that have lived there for many generations are still
never deemed worthy of becoming citizens.
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The complete articles may be read at the URLs provided for each.
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