The Globe and Mail: “More than 100 Canadian women with high-risk pregnancies have been sent to United States hospitals over the past year ““ in what a doctors’ group attributes to the lack of a national birthing plan.”
(via Catron)
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Does anyone know…….does that baby become an American citizen by virtue of birth in the USA?
It is eligible for citizenship under current law.
That is what is nice about decentralization-we don’t need a national birthing plan. The need for such “national plans” is a result of socialism. As our socio-economic systems are complex beyond our capacity to manage them, and we never have and never will be able to predict the future–although we always overestimate our ability to do both–such plans always fail.
What we have are local hospitals one by one developing individual business plans to provide services and remain afloat. Better meet needs.
The reason I ask…..you read about “anchor babies” coming into the country illegally to deliver here, expecting the baby to “anchor” the family in the USA. To the extent that this happens, the fact remains the women sort of sneaked in as it were.
These Canadian women have arranged all this in advance. All fine and good, I suppose. But it sure looks to me like a big loophole in immigration rules.
Set up an obstetric specialty hospital, all cash. People who want to enter the USA around the immigration laws, and have the means to pay. Arrange to have the baby in the USA. Claim shortages of facilities in home country.
Baby delivered in the USA, family is anchored. Why bother with immigration?
Am I missing some detail?
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