Wajahat Ali and I break down the Supreme Court's birthright citizenship ruling, Musk's promotion of a banned film, and the Islamophobia already shaping Abdul El-Sayed's Senate race
I've read about some birth tourists: Russian women who fly into Miami in their seventh or eighth month to have their babies here. My understanding is that they are the wives and girlfriends of Russisn oligarchs, most friendly with Trump, and many of the women stay in Trump properties. Or so I've read.
I support birthright citizenship. However, I don't think you and Waj would qualify as "birth tourists," since I presume that your parents came here, had you, and remained as immigrants. I personally know of a female US citizen married to a foreign man and living in his country. When she was pregnant, she came here to have the baby (for various reasons: citizenship, familiarity with medical setting, and to be with natal family), and afterwards returned to her husband's country. She isn't a birth tourist either. A birth tourist is one without US citizenship who comes here to have the child and then leaves; it's a small percent of births and will probably decline because it's getting harder to get tourist visas to the US.
Americans go to Canada to have babies as well. I imagine that's happening more under this administration, as most birth tourists do it to have a backup in case things go awry in their home country. Indeed, many Americans are "medical tourists," traveling to other countries to get cheaper, and sometimes better, medical care, taking advantage of those countries' better health care systems.
I've read about some birth tourists: Russian women who fly into Miami in their seventh or eighth month to have their babies here. My understanding is that they are the wives and girlfriends of Russisn oligarchs, most friendly with Trump, and many of the women stay in Trump properties. Or so I've read.
I support birthright citizenship. However, I don't think you and Waj would qualify as "birth tourists," since I presume that your parents came here, had you, and remained as immigrants. I personally know of a female US citizen married to a foreign man and living in his country. When she was pregnant, she came here to have the baby (for various reasons: citizenship, familiarity with medical setting, and to be with natal family), and afterwards returned to her husband's country. She isn't a birth tourist either. A birth tourist is one without US citizenship who comes here to have the child and then leaves; it's a small percent of births and will probably decline because it's getting harder to get tourist visas to the US.
Americans go to Canada to have babies as well. I imagine that's happening more under this administration, as most birth tourists do it to have a backup in case things go awry in their home country. Indeed, many Americans are "medical tourists," traveling to other countries to get cheaper, and sometimes better, medical care, taking advantage of those countries' better health care systems.
Thank you, Qasim, for keeping us knowledgeable about this and all the other issues you educate us about.
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Thank you for all your tireless work, Qasim!
That anyone would make a "birth tourist" statement is bad enough, but to be a Supreme Court judge and state it in his dissent, it's so aggravating.