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<blockquote data-quote="Lycanthrope" data-source="post: 391289" data-attributes="member: 562"><p>The majority of children of illegal immigrants in the United States are citizens, and the number has risen. According to a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pew_Hispanic_Center" target="_blank">Pew Hispanic Center</a> report, an estimated 73% of children of illegal immigrants were citizens in 2008, up from 63% in 2003. A total of 3.8 million illegal immigrants had at least one child who is an American citizen.</p><p></p><p>There has been a growing trend, especially amongst Asian and African visitors from <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hong_Kong" target="_blank">Hong Kong</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/China" target="_blank">China</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Korea" target="_blank">South Korea</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taiwan" target="_blank">Taiwan</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nigeria" target="_blank">Nigeria</a> to the United States,<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anchor_baby#cite_note-43" target="_blank">[41]</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anchor_baby#cite_note-44" target="_blank">[42]</a> to make use of "<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birth_tourism" target="_blank">Birth Hotels</a>" to secure US citizenship for their child and leave open the possibility of future immigration by the parents to the United States.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anchor_baby#cite_note-45" target="_blank">[43]</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anchor_baby#cite_note-46" target="_blank">[44]</a> Pregnant women typically spend around $20,000 to stay in the facilities during their final months of pregnancy and an additional month to recuperate and await their new baby's U.S. passport.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anchor_baby#cite_note-47" target="_blank">[45]</a> In some cases, the birth of a Canadian<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anchor_baby#cite_note-48" target="_blank">[46]</a> or American<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anchor_baby#cite_note-49" target="_blank">[47]</a> child to mainland Chinese parents is a means to circumvent the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One-child_policy" target="_blank">one-child policy</a> in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/China" target="_blank">China</a>;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anchor_baby#cite_note-50" target="_blank">[48]</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hong_Kong" target="_blank">Hong Kong</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anchor_baby#cite_note-51" target="_blank">[49]</a> and the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northern_Mariana_Islands" target="_blank">Northern Mariana Islands</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anchor_baby#cite_note-52" target="_blank">[50]</a> were also popular destinations before more restrictive local regulation impeded traffic.</p><p></p><p>------------------------------------------------</p><p>Maybe anchor babies is the wrong term, but it sounds like illegal and legal immigrants/visitors alike, have babies in the US because of their automatic citizenship guarantee, which shouldnt be the case. Only children of permanent residents in the US, or citizens, should have citizenship bestowed upon them, IMO...</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Lycanthrope, post: 391289, member: 562"] The majority of children of illegal immigrants in the United States are citizens, and the number has risen. According to a [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pew_Hispanic_Center']Pew Hispanic Center[/URL] report, an estimated 73% of children of illegal immigrants were citizens in 2008, up from 63% in 2003. A total of 3.8 million illegal immigrants had at least one child who is an American citizen. There has been a growing trend, especially amongst Asian and African visitors from [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hong_Kong']Hong Kong[/URL], [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/China']China[/URL], [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Korea']South Korea[/URL], [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taiwan']Taiwan[/URL] and [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nigeria']Nigeria[/URL] to the United States,[URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anchor_baby#cite_note-43'][41][/URL][URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anchor_baby#cite_note-44'][42][/URL] to make use of "[URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birth_tourism']Birth Hotels[/URL]" to secure US citizenship for their child and leave open the possibility of future immigration by the parents to the United States.[URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anchor_baby#cite_note-45'][43][/URL][URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anchor_baby#cite_note-46'][44][/URL] Pregnant women typically spend around $20,000 to stay in the facilities during their final months of pregnancy and an additional month to recuperate and await their new baby's U.S. passport.[URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anchor_baby#cite_note-47'][45][/URL] In some cases, the birth of a Canadian[URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anchor_baby#cite_note-48'][46][/URL] or American[URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anchor_baby#cite_note-49'][47][/URL] child to mainland Chinese parents is a means to circumvent the [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One-child_policy']one-child policy[/URL] in [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/China']China[/URL];[URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anchor_baby#cite_note-50'][48][/URL] [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hong_Kong']Hong Kong[/URL][URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anchor_baby#cite_note-51'][49][/URL] and the [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northern_Mariana_Islands']Northern Mariana Islands[/URL][URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anchor_baby#cite_note-52'][50][/URL] were also popular destinations before more restrictive local regulation impeded traffic. ------------------------------------------------ Maybe anchor babies is the wrong term, but it sounds like illegal and legal immigrants/visitors alike, have babies in the US because of their automatic citizenship guarantee, which shouldnt be the case. Only children of permanent residents in the US, or citizens, should have citizenship bestowed upon them, IMO... [/QUOTE]
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