Why is U.S. Birthright Citizenship for Sale?
By Elois Zeanah September 14, 2010 The expose that Asian businesses are “selling” U.S. birthright citizenship packages for tourists hit national news recently. The practice is not new, however. Foreigners worldwide have known about the cheap sale of U.S. citizenship for many years . Foreigners can buy U.S. citizenship for their children (and eventually get it for themselves) for the price of a ticket to the U.S. or get it free by stealing over the border. Some foreigners come to the U.S. to get dual citizenship for their children; others birth their babies in the U.S. to get on the U.S. taxpayer dole and stay for life. What is new is that U.S. citizens are just learning that: America bestows automatic birthright citizenship on babies born on U.S. soil regardless of whether their parents are tourists, terrorists, in the U.S. for one hour or one year, or in the U.S. illegally, and taxpayers pay billions of dollars a year for these anchor babies. The exposure of this practice has spurred
