Forget terrorist visitors for a moment.
Focus instead on another foreigner who visits America for a nefarious purpose: United States citizenship for her child.
Capitalizing on longtime scandalous practices by illegal Mexican immigrants in Texas border towns, pregnant South Korean, Hong Kong and Taiwanese women are now using tourist visas to whelp in Los Angeles, New York, Boston, Hawaii and Guam.
Fueling the Asian practice are future guarantees that the American-born children will avoid military service and be able to attend American schools with lower tuition costs.
The Asian women at least pay thousands of dollars to brokers of American birthing facilities—and then return home. Illegal Mexican aliens let local taxpayers pick up the maternity tab--and then claim the right to remain on American soil.
Citizenship rights of their children appear to be guaranteed by the 14th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution, added after the Civil War to benefit the descendants of slaves.
Ain’t America wonderful? (2 JUNE 2002)
