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In November, 25-year-old Japanese citizen Midori Nishida was checking into a flight to Saipan, a US island in the Pacific, where she was going to visit her parents. She wasn't pregnant, and said so on a check-in questionnaire, but airline staff made her take a pregnancy test anyways before she was allowed to board.
Some pregnant women are specifically giving birth in Saipan so that their children are eligible for US citizenship. Many of the tourists giving birth in the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, where Saipan is the largest island, are from China.
Nishida told the Wall Street Journal it was "very humiliating and frustrating" to be escorted to a public restroom where she was handed a strip to urinate on. She did not test positive and was able to board the flight. Hong Kong Express Airways said the test was in response to "concerns raised by authorities in Saipan," where birth tourism resulted in more tourists giving birth there than residents in 2018.
I imagine the "concerns" raised to Hong Kong Express Airways were are about Chinese birth tourism which is a major industry, but the airline mistakenly, or maliciously, applied them to some random plump Japanese woman.
My friend told me his wife's cousin (from Uganda) came to the US to give birth.
I told him it is not allowed, but he does not believe me and says she has all the paperwork so it is ok.
So I did some search. Surprisingly there is no law preventing people come to the US to give birth. The only thing they can say is that you cannot lie in tourist visa application. However Japanese citizens do not need a visa to visit the US.
My friend told me his wife's cousin (from Uganda) came to the US to give birth.
I told him it is not allowed, but he does not believe me and says she has all the paperwork so it is ok.
So I did some search. Surprisingly there is no law preventing people come to the US to give birth. The only thing they can say is that you cannot lie in tourist visa application. However Japanese citizens do not need a visa to visit the US.
I see it quite a bit on the labor and delivery floor. Any time someone pays me cash for their epidural, it is suspicious, but when they barely speak English, with the address listed as a nearby motel, it is pretty damn obvious.
I have even heard about OB/GYNs advertising in foreign countries.
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At this point it appears to have been accepted as a constitutional-right..........born on US-soil and you are a US citizen. So, amend the constitution, good luck.
At this point it appears to have been accepted as a constitutional-right..........born on US-soil and you are a US citizen. So, amend the constitution, good luck.
Without going over the numerous arguments that the phrase "and" subject to the jurisdiction thereof" outright denies babies born from illegal alien parents our birthright citizenship so they are not birthright citizens. They've only been deemed so by a PC policy. There is no need for an amendment to the Constitution. It needs to be taken before the Supreme Court.
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