Is It Legal to Visit America to Have a Baby in Order to Create Citizenship?

[rangerrebew]

    Is It Legal to Visit America to Have a Baby in Order to Create Citizenship?



    Once known pejoratively as “anchor babies,” the children of foreign nationals born on American soil have traditionally had a right to automatic citizenship. As a result, immediate family members would seek their own citizenship by virtue of the close relationship. But, after years of debate on the topic of immigration reform, are anchor babies still legal?

    Where Did It Start?

 

    https://www.hg.org/article.asp?id=35649

[Taxcontrol]

14th Amendment - ratified post-Civil War era (1868)

"All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the state wherein they reside. ..."

[geronl]

For a long time wealthier South Koreans would go "abroad" to have their babies because sons born overseas were exempt from compulsory military service. I think they recently changed that law, though.