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jojog

(372 posts)
Fri Nov 2, 2018, 07:41 PM Nov 2018

Do you remember Trump's Birth Tourism?

[link:https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/birth-tourism-brings-russian-baby-boom-miami-n836121|

But for a growing number of Russian women, the draw isn't sunny beaches or pulsing nightclubs. It's U.S. citizenship for their newborn children.

In Moscow, it's a status symbol to have a Miami-born baby, and social media is full of Russian women boasting of their little americantsy.





The child gets a lifelong right to live and work and collect benefits in the U.S. And when they turn 21 they can sponsor their parents' application for an American green card.

As president, Donald Trump has indicated he is opposed to so-called chain migration, which gives U.S. citizens the right to sponsor relatives, because of recent terror attacks. And as a candidate, he called for an end to birthright citizenship, declaring it in one of his first policy papers the "biggest magnet for illegal immigration."

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Do you remember Trump's Birth Tourism? (Original Post) jojog Nov 2018 OP
Ground zero for this is Sunny Isles Beach in northeast Miami Dade County. Scurrilous Nov 2018 #1
I'm sure....1000's of them certainly. Why wouldn't they? rgbecker Nov 2018 #2

Scurrilous

(38,687 posts)
1. Ground zero for this is Sunny Isles Beach in northeast Miami Dade County.
Fri Nov 2, 2018, 07:59 PM
Nov 2018
Birth tourism brings Russian baby boom to Miami

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"Lured by the charm of little Havana or the glamour of South Beach, some 15 million tourists visit Miami every year.

But for a growing number of Russian women, the draw isn't sunny beaches or pulsing nightclubs. It's U.S. citizenship for their newborn children.

In Moscow, it's a status symbol to have a Miami-born baby, and social media is full of Russian women boasting of their little americantsy."



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"In a twist, as the Daily Beast first reported, condo buildings that bear the Trump name are the most popular for the out-of-town obstetric patients, although the units are subleased from the individual owners and it's not clear if building management is aware."



Trump Towers I II III in Sunny Isles Beach

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/birth-tourism-brings-russian-baby-boom-miami-n836121
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