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In reply to the discussion: This is How Citizens United Dies-Feds: Mexican tycoon exploited super PACs to influence US elections [View all]JDPriestly
(57,936 posts)to have babies that are born in this country.
Wealthy Chinese are hiring American women to serve as surrogate mothers, creating a small but growing business in American babies for China's elite.
Surrogacy agencies in China and the United States are catering to rich Chinese who either want a baby outside the country's restrictive one-child family planning policies, are unable to conceive themselves, or who are seeking U.S. citizenship for their children.
Emigration as a family is another draw - U.S. citizens may apply for Green Card residency for their parents when they turn 21.
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http://www.today.com/money/rich-chinese-seeking-american-surrogate-mothers-4B11231401
The US permits in vitro fertilization. Some other countries do not. So we may have Chinese-Americans of very wealthy people having the right to interfere in American elections in some years. Seems like a long way in the future, but is it really?
On edit: we need caps on election donations. We really do. I understand the argument about the First Amendment, but money does not equal speech. Citizens United permits a form of under-the-table purchasing of candidates, possibly even a form of tacit bribery.