Geee Posted December 12, 2019 Share Posted December 12, 2019 Washington Times Foreign tourists to the U.S. give birth to 33,000 babies a year — each of them immediately becoming a citizen — according to a new report being released Thursday that puts numbers on the extent to which immigrants make use of America’s birthright citizenship policy. Almost all of those 33,000 are part of birth tourism, says Steven A. Camarota, the researcher at the Center for Immigration Studies who did the report. That means they came to the U.S. while pregnant on short-term visas for the express purpose of giving birth and earning their child immediate citizenship. Some 39,000 other foreigner women here on temporary student or guest-worker visas also give birth, Mr. Camarota calculated. And that’s all in addition to nearly 300,000 births each year to illegal immigrants, each of which is also immediately a citizen, a status that provides to the parents a potential pathway, albeit complicated and lengthy, to remain legally in the U.S. as well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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