But..but..but...anyone born here is an American Citizen! (says the Democrats...) Citizenship should mean something, it should have value. Just wait until Kamala Harris puts all of the insurance companies out of business and gives free healthcare to illegal immigrants and whoever else stops by. You will have medical tourism that is off the charts. It looks like the Chinese were not waiting around for that to happen, notice in the article how many of them ditched their hospital bills. USA, the world's flop house. The only thing the Chinese have not been able to steal or counterfeit are manners, they have the worst manners of all international travelers. U.S. charges 19 in Chinese 'birth tourism' scheme in California Dan Whitcomb 3 MIN READ LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Nineteen people have been charged in three “birth tourism” schemes that operated in Southern California to bring pregnant Chinese women into the United States in order to secure birthright citizenship for their children, federal prosecutors in Los Angeles said on Thursday. The 17 cases unsealed on Thursday are the first federal charges brought against operators and customers of birth tourism businesses, the Justice Department said in a statement. Three defendants were arrested on Thursday morning, while the 16 others named in the indictments unsealed on Thursday are “fugitive defendants,” the prosecutors said. The defendants are accused of links to three “birth houses” operating in Southern California that catered to wealthy women from China and were dismantled by federal agents in March 2015. The indictments charge that Chinese customers were coached on how to pass U.S. Consulate interviews in China by falsely stating they would stay in the United States for only two weeks and to trick U.S. Customs at entry ports by wearing loose clothing to conceal their pregnancies, prosecutors said in the statement. “These cases allege a wide array of criminal schemes that sought to defeat our immigration laws – laws that welcome foreign visitors so long as they are truthful about their intentions when entering the country,” U.S. Attorney Nick Hanna said in a statement. “Some of the wealthy clients of these businesses also showed blatant contempt for the U.S. by ignoring court orders directing them to stay in the country to assist with the investigation and by skipping out on their unpaid hospital bills,” Hanna said. The U.S. Constitution grants citizenship to any child born on U.S. soil, and immigration experts say there is nothing inherently illegal about women coming from abroad to give birth to children in the country. But law enforcement officials in Southern California in recent years have sought to crack down on the burgeoning cottage industry of maternity tourism, in which foreign nationals, typically from China, apply for U.S. visas under false pretenses and overstay them so that their children can attain birthright citizenship. In the cases unsealed on Thursday, prosecutors say, the schemes committed widespread immigration fraud and money laundering and defrauded property owners when leasing apartments and houses for the pregnant women. Federal agents raided three apartment complexes and several other sites being used as maternity houses or hotels across Southern California in March in 2015, saying they catered to wealthy women from China who paid $15,000 to $80,000, depending on services offered. The sweep was believed to mark the first such enforcement action against maternity tourism.
Matthew, we can always count on you to post ignorant ideas on here, but now you are adding racist themes to your posts. Not ok on any level.
What a joke you are, Nine Ender. There is nothing "racist" in his post quoting an article from Reuters. Please go play in traffic.
We can always count on you continually abusing others and pushing fabricated assertions about others. Obviously you cannot back up your assertions about the "Google guy" and you are spouting nonsense again... https://www.elitetrader.com/et/threads/stripper-attire-on-the-senate-floor.329297/#post-4798279
I know I've posted this before, but its just too damned funny and such a perfect example of what a true yambag Nine Ender actually is. The thread is a classic. https://www.elitetrader.com/et/threads/slander-and-fraud-concerning-my-account.227449/ To the administrators : Recent activity on your site has included significant slanderous activity involving my posts. For example, quoting out of context, and embelleshing what has been said to distort my message. As of today, several posters have attacked me personally including death threats and overall libelous content. This will be stopping today. What I am requesting immediately is the deletion of every single post in my history, and the removal of my account from this site. If you do not do this, I will be consulting a lawyer with respect to sueing your site for character defamation. Removal of my posting history is necessary to prevent the ongoing slander approach being used by several posters on this site. Please take this request seriously, recent legislation in our country has shown that this kind of online character assassination is illegal and actionable by law.
You are a stupid man. Go play with your guns, it seems inevitable you or someone in your family will be shot at some point. This thread is racist to the core; if you are too dumb to understand that well thanks for making your ignorance clear yet again.
Congrats on again entertaining the resident dumb asses Money Matthew and Tom B. Quite seriously, I wouldn't give those two the time of day in the real world but perhaps this is the kind of crowd you fit into. The US education system produced all three of you which doesn't say much for parts of that system. It also helps explain how dangerous the US can be when guys like you carry all that fear and a gun almost everywhere you go. No surprise your employer refuses to allow you to bring a gun into the workplace; who on earth would want an unstable guy prone to headaches and a trigger happy finger one bad decision the opportunity to act on his fear on the premises.
I had never read that post you made... ( https://www.elitetrader.com/et/threads/slander-and-fraud-concerning-my-account.227449/ ) but fwiw... content and intentions aside.... one thing I have learned over the years.... people who "threaten" legal action are nothing but posers. If you want to sue someone and do some real damage... you f'ing blind-side em. You don't blow smoke about what "you will do". First sign of a nobody. At least as these things go. Perhaps "nobody" isn't the right word, that sounds mean. "Impotent in resources" would be better. But whatever, I have no idea what you were crying about as I didn't read the whole thread that Tsing linked to.... just throwin' out some real world smarts for ya. Carry on.
I don't obsess about old business when this site got out of hand and I protested the whole situation. I agree there were better ways to address that situation and by escalating it the wrong way I was just handing some of the trolls and racists on here a free hand to go about what they do. I took a long break from here afterwards. The real world is more important then what gets posted here. Guys like Tsing Tao may think they are winning some internet war but it should scare most Americans that there are guys liked him carrying a gun in many public places. And on a more pervasive level, this site is illustrating how divisive Americans are getting with each other in terms of politics and attitudes about others outside of the US. Is it better to just let them dominate the airwaves with their ideas or should an opposing view be posted and defended with vigor ? Hard to say, I'm sure many of my friends and family would tell me it isn't worth the effort. When poster Money Matthew starts pushing racist themes about "Chinese" immigrants, I draw a line. I married a well educated Asian women who has been a lifetime contributor to Canada's economy and a mother of two wonderful children. I understand that Matthew is just some young, ignorant kid ( or man child, hard to say ) who doesn't know any better, but racist content has to be confronted in my opinion. Even when the person doesn't understand why it's racist.
You won't condemn actual American Racism among people who openly use the 'N' word and call people 'coons' but yet you get butt hurt and cry racism when I point out Birth Tourism by the Chinese and their horrible manners when traveling. Their manners are so bad that their own government published a guide teaching them how to act better, was that racist? https://www.theatlantic.com/china/a...how-to-avoid-being-a-terrible-tourist/280332/ You are not a world traveler, you probably only speak one language and only understand the USA and the rest of the world through TV and internet message boards. Your opinions on our Border and our Immigration policies are irrelevant. Do you think anyone on an international level says to themselves "I better check to see what Canada thinks about this?"...no one ever says that. Even Quebec does not want to be a part of Canada. What makes you think that your insights are so valuable? It is almost as if you are a Canadian Sports Writer forced to write about boring sports like curling who secretly wishes they could write about Politics instead. Canadian Politics is boring so you have to come here to vent and live your secret dream to write about exciting American Politics!