Trump Ends So-Called 'Anchor Babies'
From the ink of Mina Magallón.
Trump had been declaring since his first day as president that: "We're looking at this 'anchor baby' thing very seriously, getting citizenship by simple birthright, where you have a baby on our land, you walk across the border, you have a baby, congratulations, the baby is now a US citizen\u2026. It's downright ridiculous."
On Sunday, January 26, 2020, the State Department announced that it will begin denying tourist visas to women who the immigration officer believes may be trying to come to the US to give birth. It is not clear whether the immigration officer will determine whether a woman is pregnant and suspects the reason for her desire to travel at the time of filing a visa application or whether the determination will be made at the border crossing. I imagine that the immigration office will be empowered to deny the visa both in the visa petition and at the time of crossing the border if there is the slightest suspicion.
The term "anchor baby", in English anchor baby, has been used repeatedly to refer to all those women who are protected by the Constitution, which establishes that citizenship is automatically granted when born in the US. The "anchor baby" is used by the undocumented in the hope that when this baby reaches the age of 21, being an American citizen, he can sponsor his undocumented parents so that they can fix their papers and obtain permanent residence, known as "green card", which by the way is blue and not green.
Every year, hundreds of women from various countries come to the US to have children. In the state of Florida, there is an entire medical industry related to "anchor babies" due to the quality of medical service and low hospital costs. This "phenomenon" is known as "childbirth tourism." The fact that the baby can automatically acquire US citizenship regardless of the immigration status of her parents is an extraordinary incentive for the undocumented. For those parents who want to insure and stay in the US, it is a great hope.
It is no secret that there are thousands of undocumented mothers interested in giving birth in the US as well as those with a higher economic level who travel to their favorite places within the US to do their "birth tourism", just as The wife of "El Chapo" did it, who came to have her twins in the US. The undocumented know that the government pays all the costs of giving birth and it does not cost undocumented parents a fifth.
In February of last year, the Justice Department announced the indictment of 19 people for their role in an international "birth tourism" ring that brought thousands of pregnant women, mainly from China, to California so they could give birth. and have an American son. The case marked the first time criminal charges had been filed in federal court in a "birth tourism" case.
The accusations revealed that they were charged between $15,000 and $50,000 per pregnant woman to bring and bear the "anchor baby." The allegations also stated that the women were told they would fly to Hawaii first and then to Los Angeles because immigration officers in Hawaii are less harsh than in Los Angeles. The networks that organized these trips made millions of dollars.
According to statistical figures published by the director of Investigative Studies (CIS), Steven A. Camarota, the figure of 297,000 births per year to illegal immigrants is greater than the total number of births to legal immigrants in any state except the state of California and Texas, and greater than the combined total number of births in 16 states.
John Binder, editor of the Breitbarten news group, in which Steven Bannon is closely associated with and represents a point of view of the conservative group, which is the platform that President Donald Trump represents, reported: "Today, there are at least 4.5 million "anchor babies" in the US, which exceeds the approximately four million babies born to Americans each year and the cost to US taxpayers of about $2.4 billion each year to subsidize hospital costs for the The birth of "anchor babies" should be banned, it's ridiculous for taxpayers to cover them.
We see, then, that Donald Trump continues to build his walls against illegal immigrants, supporting the mentality and desire of the conservative group who, for the most part, believe that they are being displaced by illegal immigrants and dream of making the United States great again.
