NBC’s Rock Center on China & Birth Tourism

By John | Wednesday, November 2, 2011 | 2 Comments

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We had bloggedabout Chinese anchor babies and maternity tourism earlier this March. This past Monday, on NBC’s premiere of their new 1-hour long news program, Rock Center, did a nine minute segment exploring this phenomenon.

I’m pretty sure that the authors of the Fourteenth Amendment didn’t exactly think of such issues back in 1868. Hell, the automobile wasn’t even invented let alone the airplane. I think maternity tourism definitely is not in the spirit of the Fourteenth Amendment.

However, I don’t think this is a large problem as far as Chinese tourists, since it is pretty difficult for the Chinese to get any kind of visa to the United States and there is a huge backlog and is very costly (up to I think $30,000 by the service providers per mother). Still, I wonder how the pregnant women get visas in the first place; I guess they apply and interview in person before they are visibly pregnant, go on vacation a few months before they are due and stay in the U.S. until they give birth to their child.

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ellebee11

The congressman in the clip – how is this “taking advantage” of the US? (as if the US doesn’t take advantage of a lot of countries….). I see these mothers doing everything by the book and spending thousands of dollars in the US, b/c they value American citizenship and are proud of having a child in America. What is wrong with that? And these children as American citizens will no doubt represent the US well in the future.

I also see a lot of US citizens born here that also take advantage of the system, without spending a nickel in the US (except in the black market) and sucking up taxpayers dollars for government-subsidized housing, programs, food, schooling, prisons, police…….. That is the bigger issue to tackle.

The New Future America may no longer have a old waspy-puritan white guy as the standard spokesperson. Get over it.
mwei

this outrage has to stop! even Chinese pandas are having anchor babies!

http://www.11alive.com/rss/article/211525/3/PHOTOS-Zoo-Atlantas-baby-panda-turns-1

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