{"id":111317,"date":"2017-01-04T04:25:16","date_gmt":"2017-01-04T12:25:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=111317"},"modified":"2017-01-04T04:29:25","modified_gmt":"2017-01-04T12:29:25","slug":"birth-tourism-nobody-in-power-is-serious-about-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=111317","title":{"rendered":"Birth Tourism: Nobody in Power Is Serious About It"},"content":{"rendered":"

Comments at Steve Sailer<\/a>:<\/p>\n

* The United States is just not a serious country anymore. This shouldn\u2019t even be a difficult issue\u2013children born to foreign diplomats on U.S. \u201csoil\u201d are not American citizens, so why should children born to foreigners also on U.S. soil for the express purposes of gaming the system be automatic U.S. citizens? I\u2019m reminded of the Tunisian terrorist who couldn\u2019t be deported because Tunisia wouldn\u2019t take him back (smart people, those Tunisians) but who couldn\u2019t be detained because, well, as I remember it, he didn\u2019t have any papers. The West is so tied up in legalisms it can no longer act to preserve its own existence. It\u2019s almost like being a body that\u2019s lost its ability to recognize disease organisms.<\/p>\n

* Fascinating quotation from the article:<\/p>\n

“For better or worse, Chinese mothers\u2019 first impression of American life is often in places like Rowland Heights, a mostly-Asian sprawling suburb of homes and vast strip malls 25 miles east of downtown Los Angeles.”<\/p>\n

\u2018For better or worse . . .\u2019? Is the writer actually worry-editorializing that these gravid ladies might be finding their new host country insufficiently impressive and welcoming? Perhaps the US government should step in to address this horrible injustice by implementing a new program to build birth-tourist hotels in nicer places such as Santa Barbara and La Jolla. We should provide shuttle service from LAX also, of course.<\/p>\n

* Deftly presented, it could be a huge political winner. Birth tourism, for one thing is very unpopular. For another thing, I sense that birthright citizenship to noncitizens has great potential to trigger in American women a strong competitive\/protective instinct in favor of their own children and grandchildren and in opposition to outsider women trying to elbow into their nest. There\u2019s also just the basic injustice of rewarding lawbreakers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Comments at Steve Sailer: * The United States is just not a serious country anymore. This shouldn\u2019t even be a difficult issue\u2013children born to foreign diplomats on U.S. \u201csoil\u201d are not American citizens, so why should children born to foreigners … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[161],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-111317","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-immigration"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t