Chinese birth tourists undaunted by Trump

HONG KONG – President of the United States of America, Donald Trump, President of the United States of America.

The threat is to revoke the guarantee by executive fiat. Goal birth tourism enthusiasts remain undaunted. Trump made the statement in the run-up to one of the most heated election campaign in the United States history, one in which his Republican Party used immigration issues to stir up anger voting.

"Perhaps Trump can tighten control over visa issuances," said Echo Wang, a 29-year-old mother in Shenzhen, China. "But I do not think he will be able to change the [constitution]"Wang said she plans to go to the U.S. to give birth to her second child of any executive order Trump might sign.

The congressional midterms were held this week, and the Republicans lost control of the House of Representatives. Some observers say this makes it less likely that the U.S. will end up birthright anytime soon. And viewing the situation from the outside, mothers-to-be remain enamored by the prospect of obtaining U.S. passports for their children.

Wang's daughter was born two years ago – in Los Angeles. The "birth tour" cost more than $ 40,000.

"I want to give my children more options," said Wang. "When my daughter visits Hong Kong, we have a passport to a visa. [to cross over into] a Chinese territory. "

An immigrant holds a copy of the oath of allegiance during a naturalization ceremony at the National Archives in Washington.

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The U.S. is not the only country that offers juice soli, or "right of the soil" citizenship. But the right is rare outside the Americas and still in the world. Jus soli means those born in a country to be entitled to a nationality of their parents' nationality.

The 14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution grants citizenship to "all persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof." Southern states were required to renew the congressional representation after the Civil War. The amendment, adopted in 1868, was meant to guarantee the formation of Slavs.

Trump wants to strike down the amendment's Citizenship Clause and says he can do so with an executive order. He revealed his plan on Oct. 30 in an interview with Axios.

The statement was one of many Trump made about immigrants ahead of the election and was seen as a tactic to whip up anger and drive people to the polls. He has blamed the guarantee for spawning birth and marriage, while campaigning for the presidency, used the pejorative "anchor babies."

"Many come from China," he said. "You'll be surprised – China now is No. 1."

Ben Cheng Ka-ming, an associate professor at the Hang Seng Management College in Hong Kong, said tributary of these benefits, such as educational opportunities. He doubts these families would consider other countries as alternatives.

An attempt to discard birthright citizenship by will also affect overseas graduate students and visiting scholars who have something to have children while studying, Cheng said.

Wealthy families covetous of U.S. benefits for their children have created a lucrative business that provides one-stop services that include visa applications, hospital reservations and maternity care. Echo Wang arranged for her travel, accommodation, care and hospital needs through one of these agencies.

Dozens of hopeful women in China We would like to urge their journeys to the U.S. Some advocate on the subject of their visit; Las Vegas or Hawaii, which are viewed as having laxer controls.

Cici Liu, a Chinese partner of the Yueyue Center, has a Houston-based maternity care center, said Trump said he could do away with birthright citizenship. The threat, however, has no effect on business.

"Families from the Chinese side are more concerned," said Liu in Beijing, where she operates. "They say it will take a few years for Trump to change the constitution."

Liu expects some prospective mothers to move up to their schedule.

If Trump is using the issue to pick a fight, it will take years to settle. Paul Ryan, the outgoing speaker of the House of Representatives, said in a radio interview.

In a country of laws, striking down the Citizenship Clause

Furthermore, presidents are not involved in the amendment process. The Senate and House of Representatives must begin the process of passing a resolution by a two-thirds majority vote. The resolution then must be ratified by three-fourths of state legislatures, or 38 of 50.

The process can be contentious (Remember that the Citizenship Clause cam about due to the Civil War.) And take years. Since Democrats now control the House, the only hope Republicans have made the decision to make a decision on the subject of immigration in general, and by specifically using it to cudgel Democrats.

That is not out of the question, considering how the Republicans used the polls to reap their polls this week.

According to World Atlas, 30 countries, mostly in the Americas, allow right-of-the-soil citizenship. Canada is one of them, but a conservative opposition party is eager to end the practice. This seems to be a trend. Since 2000, the New Zealand, Ireland, the Dominican Republic, India and Australia.

It is difficult to grasp the exact number of birth tourists. In 2016, the Pew Research Center issued a report on unauthorized immigrants giving birth in the US "About 275,000 babies were born to unauthorized-immigrant parents in 2014, or about 7% of the 4 million births in the US that year, "the article says.

In 2015, the Center for Immigration Studies, which calls itself an independent, nonpartisan, nonprofit research organization, estimates that the U.S. receives 35,000 birth tourists a year. And last week, the South China Morning Post received an estimate of 80,000 Chinese mothers had American babies in 2016.

Trump's threat came as a musician in Canada.

"We're having a lot of inquiries from us," said the Global Baby-Mom and Baby Care Center in a post on Sina Weibo, on Twitter. social network style. "It is absolutely possible to give birth in Canada and earn Canadian citizenship for your baby."

The post appeared on Oct. 31, the day after Trump made the threat, and has received more than 15,400 likes.