I meant dual citizenship of the child, that of his country of origin of his parents and the USA.
33000 estimated a year is a lot. Some facts from CIS.
- CIS estimates that birth tourism results in 33,000 births to women on tourist visas annually. We estimate that hundreds of thousands more are born to mothers who are illegal aliens or present on temporary visas.
- These births produce instant citizenship for the infant, which can lead, 21 years later, to the migration of the parents, with neither event being controlled by the numerical limits that manage most international migration.
- Some travelers misrepresent the purpose of their trip to avoid scrutiny. Passport and visa fraud are felonies and the first offense can result in a fine and/or imprisonment up to 10 years. See "False Statement in Application and Use of Passport" (18 U.S.C. § 1542), a number of other statutes may also be applicable.
- Tourists who come to the United States to give birth and receive taxpayer-funded public assistance to cover the associated costs of their births or have the expenses waived by a hospital do not have to pay back any of the funds in order to get a future tourist visa.
- Of advanced economies, Canada and the United States are the only countries that grant automatic citizenship to children born to non-citizens who are not legally resident aliens.
- A U.S. passport is an extremely useful and coveted document for terrorists, spies, and criminals, giving them ready access to virtually any country on earth where they may elect to set up operations. Such groups have recruited U.S. passport holders raised abroad.
- Birth tourism to the United States is practiced by people from around the globe, especially including citizens of China, Taiwan, Korea, Nigeria, Turkey, Russia, Brazil, and Mexico.
- Chinese citizens do not require a visa to visit certain U.S. territories, such as the Commonwealth of the Northern Marianas Islands. The birth tourism industry is rampant there, with more annual births to Chinese visitors than native residents.
- Some legal scholars argue that the 14th Amendment Citizenship Clause was never intended to benefit the children of illegal aliens or legal foreign visitors temporarily present in the United States.
- The U.S. Supreme Court has held that the U.S.-born children of permanent resident aliens are covered by the Citizenship Clause, but the Court has never decided whether the same rule applies to the children of aliens whose presence in the United States is temporary or illegal.
- Some eminent scholars and jurists have concluded that it is within the power of Congress to define the scope of the Citizenship Clause through legislation and that birthright citizenship for the children of temporary visitors and illegal aliens could likely be abolished by statute without amending the Constitution.
