Chinese exports pregnant moms to make American babies
Image via WikipediaThe building inspectors and police officers walked into the small row of connected town houses here knowing something was amiss. Neighbors had complained about noise and a lot of pregnant women coming and going. And when they went into a kitchen they saw a row of clear bassinets holding several infants, with a woman acting as a nurse hovering over them.There is much more.
For months, officials say, the house was home to “maternity tourists,” in this case, women from China who had paid tens of thousands of dollars to deliver their babies in the United States, making the infants automatic American citizens. Officials shut down the home, sending the 10 mothers who had been living there with their babies to nearby motels.
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For the last year, the debate over birthright citizenship has raged across the country, with some political leaders calling for an end to the 14th Amendment, which gives automatic citizenship to any baby born in the United States. Much of the debate has focused on immigrants entering illegally from poor countries in Latin America. But in this case the women were not only relatively wealthy, but also here legally on tourist visas. Most of them, officials say, have already returned to China with their American babies.
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This is surely an unintended consequence of an attempt to be fair to people born into slavery before the civil war. That it continues today is because there are people willing to exploit it in other countries and politicians eager to exploit it in this country. It is hard to blame the former, but the latter should be ashamed. The politicians most eager to exploit the poorly drafted 14th Amendment are mainly Democrats who see it as a way to attract future voters rather than as what it really is, an attempt to game the Constitution.
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