Birth Tourism : The United States

While the INS – Immigration and Naturalization Services in collaboration with the Department of Homeland Security have a duty to perfom, the system has many flaws. The essay, “Impounded Fathers”, by Edwidge Danticat, brings to light some of the unfair circumstances caused by these organizations. It speaks about the immigration system in the United States of America and the adverse effects that it has had on millions of lives. Edwidge shared her personal experience with the system, as well as the experiences of other immgrants who were and are still being impactedby by these organizations. She spoke about the injustices dealt to persons of foreign origin and their American born children. These children who

In the United States, US born children also suffer when it comes to immigration and deportation because although they are US born, their parents are not, parents are at major risk of being deported because a large part of them entered the country illegally or with a Visa but remained in the country after it expired. In the past decade, nearly 2 million persons were removed from the country, 81 % of them to Latin America. Of the estimated 11.7 million undocumented immigrants living in the United States, 52 % are from Mexico (Passel et al. 2013), placing them at greatest risk for deportation. Because of the workplace raids that occurred in 2006 and 2007, 900 undocumented

Immigration has played an important role throughout American history. What fundamentally sets America apart from other nations is the foundation that it was created by immigrants seeking a better life for themselves and their children (Camarota & Zeigler, 2016). During times of economic growth, laborers have been imported, and deported during recessions (Flores, 2016). An average of 1.1 million immigrants relocate to the United States annually (Storesletten, 2000). US Customs and Border Control officials, have witnessed a significant increase in the number of “unaccompanied alien minors” from Latin America, anticipating 75,000 minors (if not more) from 2016 to 2017 (Rush, 2016). The average age for “unaccompanied alien minors” is 11 years

A common misconception is that legalizing illegal immigrants would just result in “criminals” running around the streets causing disturbances. Who is ignored is the benefit of a very specific population of Americans, the sons and daughters of illegal immigrants. American children are harmed every time one or both of their parents is deported as a result of the lack of an immigration reform. In the article, “Children of Illegal Immigrants Struggle When Parents Are Deported” Valbrun states that “the government deported more than 46,000 parents of children with U.S. citizenship in the first half of 2011, according to the ARC report.” In these conditions, jailed parents cannot fight for their children’s custody and at times lose it to the government who then puts the children out for adoption or in foster care when they already have loving parents. Properly legalizing immigrants would improve the lives of many American children and improve the American social aspects with more

So what is immigration? The definition stands as the action of coming to live permanently in a foreign country. However, outside of a narrow definition we can see that it is actually so much more. It is the action of someone uprooting everything they have ever known in hopes of finding something better. Many times as we have seen through Enrique’s Journey means that children and entire families are left behind in hopes that one day they will once again be reunited (Nazario). Though many hope to see their families once again, their hopes slowly turn into dreams. Between 2010 and 2012 nearly 205,00 parents of U.S. citizen born children were deported in a staggering 26 months (Lincroft). Given that this is a statistic based upon families that are already in the US it leaves us to wonder how many families are torn

Pongskon Bupphasawan Professor Sharifian Government 2305-75427 June 30, 2017 The Fourteenth Amendment Introduces a Passive Citizenship The 14th Amendment authorizes all the people who is born on the U.S. soil automatically get an U.S. citizenship. Therefore, the 14th Amendment brings thousands of foreigners who desire American residency to give their children birth in the U.S. There are no laws to reject pregnant women to come to the U.S. Foreigners believe they would get a better healthcare and many of them believe to seek American Dream. 1 According to the “Born In The USA: Why Chinese ‘Birth Tourism’ Is Booming In California”, “Chinese women are flocking to the United States — California, in particular — to have children who will grow up as American citizens,” and it reports that “Chinese births in the U.S, but estimates by industry publications projected a total of 60,000 for 2014” (Sheehan). The 14th Amendment should require more process to give a U.S. citizen from birth tourism by requiring the tourists parents enroll in a program that teach about U.S. government, and they will know the duty of American is a must for Americans.

I lived a happy childhood in California I never had an experience with racism and discrimination, until I moved to Reno, NV for school. I went to a Donald Trump conference to rally the event. A middle age man approached me and started shouting to me and some friends to “go back to Mexico!” I later yelled back I’m an American just like you I was born in the U.S. He kept saying vulgar words to me and started to tell me if my parents are immigrants so am I, I am an anchor baby. The term anchor baby started to get popular because of the candidate Donald Trump. The American heritage dictionary of English language definition is considered an offensive word “Used as a disparaging term for a child born to

While across the United States exists considerable numbers of birth tourism, there is one state in particular that research shows to have the greatest activity. 1 Statistics highlights, “more than two-thirds of all births in Los Angeles public hospitals, and more than half of all births in that city, and nearly 10 percent of all births in the nation in recent years, have been to mothers who are here illegally” (Will). 2 Los Angeles is seeing high activity for birth tourism due to package plans available through agencies, “profit-seeking and sometimes illegal organizations that arrange accommodations and hospital visits for groups of Chinese women” (Brush). Immigrants from across other countries come to settle in the Unites States for better opportunity’s and a high percentage are from Latin America. 3 In fact, “the U.S. 4 is typically centered around people from

Many laws, regulations, and policies are tailored specifically for children due to their minority status. There are also special standards when dealing with children and immigration. There are generally three different ways children get involved with immigration. The first being, children are raised in the United States without ever obtaining citizenship. Secondly, “anchor babies” which refers to children that are born in the US to undocumented parents. Lastly, many children seek refuge in the US without a parent accompanying them. This paper will look in depth on how the United States treats youth who were raised within its borders but are not legal citizens and legislation that effects

In the Unites States alone we have an estimate of 11 million unauthorized immigrants resided in the United States in 2014. According to the migration policy, there are more than 54 percent resided in four states: California (27 percent), Texas (13 percent), New York (8 percent) and Florida (6 percent). The number of illegal immigrants that migrant to this country is highly significant, as well as the number of children they have in out country. One of the legal ways for illegal immigrants to become residents of the country is to have children and wait to achieve there residence. However during the wait to achieve residence, they children take advantage many serves. Such as the schools and health care, simply because they have been born in America. The reality is that they come to this country to abuse out benefits. Taking up our resources and not improving their and our

The Fourteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution: “All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and the State wherein they reside.” Although misread and misunderstood, it is understood that if a child is born on U.S. soil, that child is a U.S. citizen. More than 300,000 “anchor babies” are born in the United States every year. In 2003 in 70 percent of the 2,300 babies born in San Joaquin General Hospital were anchor babies. Illegal female immigrants flock to the U.S. to have their babies delivered in our hospitals. They do not pay the medical bills and because their babies are U.S. citizens, the child is immediately eligible for welfare. In 1994, approximately 75,000 anchor babies cost California hospitals $215 million. Anchor babies now account for half of all Medi-Cal births. It’s this type of abuse that has led to hospitals going out of business. (Cosman, 2005) California isn’t the only state where illegal immigrants anchor themselves through the delivery of a baby on U.S. soil. This goes on all across the country, and they cannot be

The United States and Mexican border number of migrating, unaccompanied Honduran minors has grown more than 10,500 from the start of January through the month of July of year 2017. Immigration of children continues to have a major effect and an affect both on the United States and Mexico. This is only now coming to the surface because people have different ways to access information and know about news that has not happened in your state or city. The six chapter book “Enrique’s Journey” written by author Sonia Nazario in the year 2001 was only a glimpse of child immigration and how each country was dealing with the influx of unaccompanied minors. Furthermore, the book “Enrique’s Journey” focuses on the experience of being a child with an immigrating

Today the Society is split into three separately minded groups. In no specific ordering, the first is determined to believe that any one person born in the United States is a citizen and which means their parents should become citizens along with them. These are the ones whom obtain “birthright citizenship” (Raul). The second are firm believers in the only ones that should be citizens are the ones who go through the proper process of becoming a citizen and according to the article in “USA today,” it states that illegal immigrants are “having babies as a way to obtain citizenship,” which too many Americans “cheapens the whole idea of being American”. The last group is the “other” the ones whom are completely neutral or believe in the

Here in the Rio Grande Valley immigration has become the hit. An immigrant in my own words is someone from a different country that travels to an alternative country permanently for a better life. I belief they are many unlike reasons why people live in their country but cross to another country. Actually, I’m not in immigrant, I’m a US citizen but I have experienced many stories and seen families struggle from this situation. Nevertheless, to my own experience, some people move to the US to find better jobs, but some move to different counties to look forward not only to better their education but their children’s as well. In this research paper I will be pointing out the important factors and expectations of illegal immigrants in the US,

Children are often caught in the middle when the state decides whether a child’s right to live in an intact family conflicts with its interest in maintaining immigration control. Along with this issue, there is an argument regarding allowing children born in a country to have automatic birthright citizenship, even when their parents may be undocumented.