Venezuelans giving birth in S. Fla. to obtain citizenship for their children

South Florida Sun Sentinel ^ | June 12, 2007 | Tal Abbady

[3AngelaD]

...The women generally arrive on tourist visas when they are seven months pregnant and return home six weeks after delivery.

Roberto Infante, director of research at the Florida Institute for Reproductive Sciences and Technologies in Weston, has coordinated care for about 30 Venezuelan expectant mothers since December.

"I'm thinking only of my son's future," said Pita, 28, an interior designer from Caracas. "At first, I planned to give birth calmly back home, but then the rumors started. I kept wondering, `What if I can't take my child out of the country?..."

Pita is staying at an apartment her mother owns in Weston. She gave birth to her son, Santiago, on June 1, and plans to return home in a month.

Most women stay with friends or relatives and pay out of pocket, usually $4,000 in doctors' fees and $3,800 for hospital fees...

"These women find a lot of comfort in being able to have their child in this country. They receive the best care and their child is guaranteed to be a U.S. citizen," said Infante, who heads the Venezuelan American Medical Association. He charges $500 to $1,000 for his services...

...immigration officials and advocates of stricter immigration laws say so-called "birth tours" are common. Thousands of middle-class South Korean women travel each year to the United States to give birth to U.S. citizens who can avoid their country's military draft. U.S. clinics along the Mexican border offer services to border-crossing, pregnant Mexican women that include delivery and the processing of birth certificates, passports and other documents for a set fee, according to information from U.S. Customs and Border Protection...

[3AngelaD]

Uncle Sam the sucker. After our country is overrun and turned into another Third World hell hole, where are we supposed to go?

[RexBeach]

Philadelphia.

[ikka]

Fix: issue 1 month rather than 6 month tourist visas. Refuse all obviously pregnant women attempting to enter on a tourist visa into the USA.

[stuartcr]

What can be done other than not allow pregnant foreign women into the country? Perhaps a closer look at the 14th Amendment is required?

[weegee]

The Constitution needs to be amended but there is no will to do so. Our government is spineless and has abandoned this nation.

[tdewey10]

Eh. I don’t have a problem with Venezuelan girls doing this. Their country is currently run by that communist ‘tard Chavez. These are republican babies ;)

[Dr. Bogus Pachysandra]

“I’m thinking only of my son’s future,” said Pita.
Pita,,,, Pain In The A$$?

[mikeandike]

Worried that President Hugo Chavez may claim guardianship rights over children...

What happens when Hillary claims guardianship rights over all of us?

[Gideon T. Reader]

Please note that being over run by persons of the socio economic category of the ladies from Venezuela having their children in Weston, Florida, is NOT exactly like those crossing from Mexico, for handouts, free medical care and to feed at the breast of the U.S.Taxpayers.

Although the principal is the somewhat same, these ladies are arriving on tourist visas. have LOTS of money, are from the leading social class and are paying their way.
The “anchor baby” gambit whilst annoying and a tired ruse towards citizenship, for those seeking to enter the country by abridging the Immigration rules, is not the same or for the same purpose. This is more of a lifeline with dire predictions of predations from the Hugo Chavez takeover and the threat towards these people as similar as when Castro took over the island of Cuba.

They have the baby, go home and have a chance at a future rescue from the U.S.Embassy when Chevez does what Marxist Dictators do everywhere. The "Anchor birth" will allow these people to survive, not unlike those Lucky Jews during WWII who had a passport or transit visa to Shanghai, or Paraguay, or Tiera del Fuego. It meant LIFE. Note that Weston, Florida has no slum areas or lower economic class sections of residence.
These folks are paying their way, and at top dollar charges looking for an escape for what we all know is coming in South America, notwithstanding Cindy what’s her name, Banana Harry Belafonte and mediocre actor and asshole, Danny Glover.
These people are as scared as can be and fear for their lives and the lives of their children.
And THAT makes it a little bit different.

[3AngelaD]

Eh, what percentage of the Venezuelan population do you believe should be allowed to come here to get away from Chavez? We have already taken in more than 10 percent of the population of Mexico. This is going on all over the country:
“Anchors Away”

Nationally syndicated columnist Mona Charen’s latest column on immigration focuses attention on our argument challenging the popular myth that the Constitution mandates “birthright citizenship.” People down on the border know that “birthright citizenship” provides a powerful incentive for illegal sojourns into the United States for purposes of giving birth on U.S. soil. Here’s how Austin Bay, editorial writer for the Houston Chronicle, reported what he calls the “baby predicament” in a May 20, 2006 column: “At the first indications of impending birth, a pregnant Mexican woman crosses the border in a car. As her labor begins in earnest, her driver drops her off at the hospital. The doctors confront an immediate challenge: A baby is definitely being born. In the typical case, the soon-to-be mother has had no prenatal care. However, she has had a plan — her child will be born in the United States, come political hell in Washington or high water in the Rio Grande.” Talk to any doctor in El Paso, or any border town, for that matter, and you’ll get the same story. There is even a “birth tourism” industry in southern California, as recently reported by the Los Angeles NBC affiliate in a major expose, following an old 2002 Los Angeles Times story about South Koren “birth tourism” trips to the U.S. All from a misunderstanding of our Constitution’s Citizenship Clause. We’ll keep pressing the point, because our very sovereignty, and the principle of government by consent, is at stake. My testimony on birthright citizenship before the House Immigration Committee in September 2005 is available here.” John Eastman writing in http://noleftturns.ashbrook.org/default.asp?archiveID=8597

[DogByte6RER]

Well said...

[rpgdfmx]

Sounds like you’re trying to have it both ways. And, is this even a trend? How many Venezuelan women give birth in Florida in any given year?

Mexico has a very good public health/pre-natal care system, and the stories about women coming across the border to specifically have U.S. born babies are largely anecdotal (as well as illogical... any child would have to be 21 before he or she could bring in a parent). Mexican free health care is much more widely available and less bureaucratic than in the U.S.

That’s not why Mexican babies are born in the USA...it’s because the family breadwinner can’t go back and forth easily and needs to bring the family (including the pregnant spouse) to him. And, we’re hiring young men of marriagable age. Do we expect them to be celibate?

[rpgdfmx]

Sounds like you’re trying to have it both ways. And, is this even a trend? How many Venezuelan women give birth in Florida in any given year?

Mexico has a very good public health/pre-natal care system, and the stories about women coming across the border to specifically have U.S. born babies are largely anecdotal (as well as illogical... any child would have to be 21 before he or she could bring in a parent). Mexican free health care is much more widely available and less bureaucratic than in the U.S.

That’s not why Mexican babies are born in the USA...it’s because the family breadwinner can’t go back and forth easily and needs to bring the family (including the pregnant spouse) to him. And, we’re hiring young men of marriagable age. Do we expect them to be celibate?

[Gideon T. Reader]

Good Day,
You posted twice but I’ll only answer once, if that is acceptable.
The answer is: not many.
Most persons of the class most likely to be affected by a hostile Marxist government are limited based on the usual national structure of economics and social categories, i.e., Rich=Few, Middle class=More, Poor=LOTS, Povety stricken=LOT & LOTS.
The people in question are economically comfortable and will not be “doing the jobs that Americans will not do”, i.e. in competition with U.S.workers.
Most will be able to purchase apartments or homes and live if not up to their usual scale of luxury, then with a degree of comfort away from Marxism and it’s tender mercies directed toward the former “haves”.
These persons will not be flooding to the U.S., and if nature, God or some fine rifleman removes the Chavez threat, we may NEVER see these ladies or their children until the “Anchor Babys” become “Anchor Freshmen” at some of our colleges or universities, years hence, except for obligatory shopping trips or visiting family on special occasions.

I am dead set against ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION, but clearly understand the difference between looking for a handout and a soft hostile takeover via Reconquista(sic)or looking around for a means of escape. Consider, most of these folks could simply form an LLC, or S.Corporation, get a taxpayers number, open an account for their business and legally receive the means of staying as long as they wish, with probable Green Card to follow in short order.

But I am happy to reasonably discuss the difference with you.

[3RDDAN]

Yeah, and these turkeys could be president! no thank you.
Anchor babies should only be allowed if at least one parent is a US citizen

[VR-21]

Every anchor baby born in this country is a middle finger in our faces.