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[CentralCali]

"Anchor baby" is an old term and is pretty irrelevant nowadays. Minors can no longer sponsor family members into the US for immigration.

[Geckoman]

I saw this exact story yesterday night on some Korean news magazine TV show. They went to Guam and Saipan and shot footage of the pregnant woman walking around with their big bellies and interviewed these women -- blurring their faces and changing their voices so that their identities would not be revealed. They even showed the nice housing accommodations that the women live in during this time. This episode will in fact encourage more Korean women to go to Guam and Saipan to give birth there so that their baby will have American citizenship. Anything for a "Made In the USA" labeled baby!

Did anyone else catch the episode?

[Keepongoing]

when I lived in HK I knew a well to do Chinese couple that had all 4 children in Guam

[Young FRANKenstein]

[Adventurer]

I think the 14th amendment should be modified. You should be able to get citizenship if you are born in the U.S., but the child should be in America for a year. I.E. there should be an attempt to establish American roots. How American is some child simply born there and then never having lived there? I am for maintaining the right to citizenship, but the parents should be contributing to the U.S. not simply coming in to give birth. I think in France you have to live in France for a bit and being simply born there doesn't automatically make you French. Nothing wrong with people from all backgrounds becoming citizenship, but I think it should be more than being born somewhere on U.S. soil and then whisked off to Seoul, Damascus, or Beijing.

[newton kabiddles]

Why would I worry about people who desire to have their children to have US citizenship? That's good! That's a good thing for Koreans to want that. Maybe we should ask all Koreans if they would like to have US citizenship.

[newton kabiddles]

[rickvaughn]

[newton kabiddles]

[rickvaughn]

I know. I lived in Saipan for 5 years. You?

[endofthewor1d]

[wo buxihuan hanguoren]

I have two passports. My mom is South African, my dad is Swiss. I was born in SA, but I get Swiss citizenship nonetheless. If I marry a girl, she automatically qualifies for Swiss citizenship, without even having to live in the country.

Which is weird, because it is really hard for foreign people to live and work in Switzerland; it is a very xenophobic country.

What is my point to all this?

I don't know, but Switzerland and Europe in general are the places I want to visit/live in the least.

Asia is numero uno, die beste.

[Geckoman]

A month ago when I was flying to Guam the guy sitting next to me said that he was traveling with his buddy who was on his honeymoon. The newly weds were seated two rows in front of us.

I thought this was strange as who brings their buddy with them on their honeymoon? As a general rule, a honeymoon consists of just the newly weds, and nobody else. He said that they were all staying at the Leo Palace Resort (http://www.clickguam.com/guam/hotel/leo/e-leo_condo.htm) which would be a great place to go if you were to live in Guam for a while as there are lots of nice villas and condos there, along with your average hotel rooms, that are great for an extended stay.

I suggested to him that he go scuba diving and he said that he would love to try it out but that his buddy's wife was pregnant. Then it hit me!

These folks were traveling to Guam so that his buddy's wife could give bith to a "Made in the USA" baby!

When you put the pieces together it made sense: a newly wed husband bringing his buddy on his honeymoon to Guam + staying at the very convenient-for-an-extended-stay Leo Palace + a pregnant woman.

So I decided to see if my theory was in fact correct by asking him how pregnant his friend's wife was.

He said she was three months pregnant. So actually, it turned out that this was not a go-to-Guam-to-give-birth-to-a-baby-with-American-citizenship case.

Or maybe it was and he just lied about how pregnant she was, or they intended to stay in Guam for a long time until she does give birth.

Anything for a "Made in the USA" baby!

Though technically, it's actually "made" in Korea and only "released" in Guam.

[djsmnc]

It's like the barbarians flocking to Rome!

[Smee]

Old thread I know, but I hate the practice.

About a week ago I typed in "anchor baby" to wikipedia and saw that some consider it offensive. Personally I find taking advantage of leniant immigration policies and burdening the system offensive, and once Asians stop doing that, perhaps we can then talk about semantics.