So-Called ‘Anchor Babies’ Good For U.S. and 30+ other countries do the same thing even though Trump says USA is the only country that does so. And so are their parents, which is why we should encourage this practice, and encourage the parents to stay, writes Amanda Taub. http://www.vox.com/2015/8/26/9211277/anchor-babies-good
“The whole premise of the term “anchor babies” — that these children are somehow bad for the US — couldn’t be more wrong. We act as if these babies detract from the US to the benefit of their parents, when in fact they do the opposite: benefit the US at real cost to their parents. The biggest problem here is that the US isn’t doing enough to encourage foreign women to come here to have their babies.
Simply by virtue of being born here, these new US citizens will be required to pay US taxes for their entire income-earning lives. That’s true even if they leave immediately after birth and never come back. The United States has an exceptionally aggressive policy on taxing its citizens: …
…We can’t know how much these babies will earn in the future, but we do know that their families tend to be pretty well-off. After all, their mothers have the cash to travel to a foreign country, hang out for a few months, and then pay the costs of having a baby in a US hospital. And we also know that their parents are willing to go to great lengths to secure their future success and happiness.
There’s every reason, in other words, to expect these babies to be productive and successful in the future. If they decide to come back to America to be productive and successful here, that’s great! If they stay in China, or wherever, and just give the US occasional tax revenue for which they receive very little in return, that’s basically free money for America. We win either way…
Immigration is overwhelmingly beneficial to the United States economy (as well as to immigrants themselves). It increases GDP, raises property values, and even appears to boost high school graduation rates. Indeed, while some research finds that unskilled immigration has a small negative effect on the wages of unskilled native workers or unskilled immigrants who are already here, those effects are relatively small compared with the benefits that immigrants bring to the economy overall.
In other words, if more parents come and have babies here, that is a boost to the US economy, not a drag on it. If having a little bundle of US-passport-eligible joy makes immigrant parents more likely to stick around in this country, then that’s great for the rest of us. Once again, this is something the US should be encouraging, not trying to figure out how to stop.”
ChickenHead
9 years ago
Has anyone else noticed the intentional muddling and confusion over wealthy north Asian birth tourists who get American citizenship for their children, primarily to open future educational opportunities, and then go back to Asia… and the poor and uneducated, mostly from south of the border, who come to take jobs away from unskilled Americans and take advantage of the welfare system… all while demanding America conform to their standards and respect their culture (of poverty, violence, and ignorance).
It is sad and angering to watch America eat itself.
setnaffa
9 years ago
Like I’ve said before, CH… When you’re right, you’re right.
So-Called ‘Anchor Babies’ Good For U.S. and 30+ other countries do the same thing even though Trump says USA is the only country that does so. And so are their parents, which is why we should encourage this practice, and encourage the parents to stay, writes Amanda Taub.
http://www.vox.com/2015/8/26/9211277/anchor-babies-good
“The whole premise of the term “anchor babies” — that these children are somehow bad for the US — couldn’t be more wrong. We act as if these babies detract from the US to the benefit of their parents, when in fact they do the opposite: benefit the US at real cost to their parents. The biggest problem here is that the US isn’t doing enough to encourage foreign women to come here to have their babies.
Simply by virtue of being born here, these new US citizens will be required to pay US taxes for their entire income-earning lives. That’s true even if they leave immediately after birth and never come back. The United States has an exceptionally aggressive policy on taxing its citizens: …
…We can’t know how much these babies will earn in the future, but we do know that their families tend to be pretty well-off. After all, their mothers have the cash to travel to a foreign country, hang out for a few months, and then pay the costs of having a baby in a US hospital. And we also know that their parents are willing to go to great lengths to secure their future success and happiness.
There’s every reason, in other words, to expect these babies to be productive and successful in the future. If they decide to come back to America to be productive and successful here, that’s great! If they stay in China, or wherever, and just give the US occasional tax revenue for which they receive very little in return, that’s basically free money for America. We win either way…
Immigration is overwhelmingly beneficial to the United States economy (as well as to immigrants themselves). It increases GDP, raises property values, and even appears to boost high school graduation rates. Indeed, while some research finds that unskilled immigration has a small negative effect on the wages of unskilled native workers or unskilled immigrants who are already here, those effects are relatively small compared with the benefits that immigrants bring to the economy overall.
In other words, if more parents come and have babies here, that is a boost to the US economy, not a drag on it. If having a little bundle of US-passport-eligible joy makes immigrant parents more likely to stick around in this country, then that’s great for the rest of us. Once again, this is something the US should be encouraging, not trying to figure out how to stop.”
Has anyone else noticed the intentional muddling and confusion over wealthy north Asian birth tourists who get American citizenship for their children, primarily to open future educational opportunities, and then go back to Asia… and the poor and uneducated, mostly from south of the border, who come to take jobs away from unskilled Americans and take advantage of the welfare system… all while demanding America conform to their standards and respect their culture (of poverty, violence, and ignorance).
It is sad and angering to watch America eat itself.
Like I’ve said before, CH… When you’re right, you’re right.
We either fix it or welcome our new masters… 🙁