Wenn der Geburtentourismus ein so großer Betrug ist, warum machen sich dann so wenige Einwanderer zunutze?
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/article-canada-birth-tourism-immigration-birthright-citizenship/
Wenn der Geburtentourismus ein so großer Betrug ist, warum machen sich dann so wenige Einwanderer zunutze?
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/article-canada-birth-tourism-immigration-birthright-citizenship/
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I don’t feel one way about birthright citizenship or another. But it’s clear that this whole thing is just a solution in search of a problem.
That’s exactly it, it’s a miniscule fraction of a miniscule fraction of people (it’s not even a ‚rounding error‘) it’s just something to get the Con base riled up against someone who isn’t an ‚old stock Canadian‘.
Birth tourism is not a big issue. Most non-citizens that have a child here want to live here. The parents themselves want to live and work here. It’s only rich people that are thinking 18 years in advance that do birth tourism. That’s a tiny number of people
I think it’s a matter of the immigration cultures people from certain backgrounds have. In Canada most immigrants come from places like India and the Philippines. In these countries, especially amongst younger people kids are generally seen as something you have after you get married and have financial stability. So birth tourism and having kids prior to being PRs and stability isn’t something they do much.
By contrast people from central America tend not to necessarily have that mindset, which is why anchor babies and birth tourism were such big issues in the US. Since the US has cracked down on people doing that, we’ve actually seen a surge in situations where pregnant mothers come up here just to give birth for an anchor baby. It puts a strain on our already ailing medical system.
It’s not a big issue yet, but it could definitely become one, and it seems like it slowly is. I don’t think there’s an issue in addressing it now before it becomes a big problem.
I don’t really care if it’s a big problem or only a small problem. It should be ended regardless. Why should babies born in Canada automatically get citizenship if neither of their parents are even permanent residents?
> Somebody has to stop this scam, pronto. Er, not that I’m blaming the immigrants.
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> It all seems so easy that you would think more temporary residents would be taking advantage of it. Of the roughly 370,000 children born in Canada each year, Statistics Canada figures show the number of live births to non-resident mothers since 1991 has averaged between 300 and 400 a year: about 0.1 per cent of all births. True, since 2021 the number has increased sharply, to about 1,600 last year. That’s not entirely surprising, at a time when the number of temporary residents has ballooned to more than 3 million.
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> It’s often argued StatsCan’s numbers are an undercount. Hospital discharge data maintained by the Canadian Institute for Health Information appear to show the number of births to non-residents at three to four times that number: peaking at more than 5,200 in 2024, or (gasp) 1.4 per cent of all births. But still: 3 million temporary residents, and only a measly 5,200 babies? A ticket to citizenship, if not for themselves then at least for their kids, that 99.8 per cent of them pass up?
Denying birthrights to babies born here (literally BORN HERE) is just another cheeky way of eroding our integrating culture and traditions. Treat these kids as legal foreigners so they’ll have no status, hope, or options.
Little Sara better be careful when traveling, studying, or leaving on vacay, there’s a chance that they’ll be labeled as self-deported and not welcomed back. A shameful travesty.
„not that I’m blaming the immigrants“ excellent summation of the willful blindness at play (I’ve had redditors unironically angry at claims that this exists). Good job Coyne.