Baby tourism

Being born an American citizen is something that is prized. If you are reading this, you were probably born here and don’t think much about it. Foreigners do.

The 14th Amendment to our Constitution was written to give African slaves citizenship, but the wording is carefully scrutinized to provide loopholes. It has some ambiguous wording that both sides will use depending on political whims. I very much doubt it will change or be repealed. It will survive any legal challenge.

Politicians throw around “efforts” to repeal certain amendments, but it’s just theater. It’s very, very difficult to do but used to secure votes and then forgotten about… after being elected. The public are that gullible as to actually believe what the politicians say they’ll do.

In China, for example, you may have read about its one child per family policy. China has four times our population, so its government decided that Chinese families could only have one child. They ignored the fact that parents preferred to have sons and, without discussing how many resolved that problem, there are thirty million more boys than girls. That means many men will never marry. Their laws, like ours, have loopholes.

A big loophole for Chinese families is baby tourism. Simply put, you are allowed to have more than one baby if those babies are born outside of China. So where do you think that well-to-do heavily pregnant women go to have their babies? Yes, right here. Their babies become natural born U.S. citizens, and become an anchor for the parents if they ever want or need to leave China.

I haven’t investigated if women giving birth at any of our numerous overseas U.S. bases or even on U.S. flagged vessels will qualify the babies, but I will and will report back.