on how it goes up to the supreme court. when you hear people defend this, what they say is this is absolutely what the 14th amendment requires, they never say this is good policy because its indefensible policy. but i just think having fought the old military commissions battle back ten or 12 years ago, however long it was, there was a lot of authority that president bush had to unilaterally order military commissions and the court told him nevertheless that he needed congress. if this goes up to the supreme court or executive order, it goes up to the statute for a chance. now onto that story, there is shocking story, something called birth tourism, a phenomenon where foreign nationals come to this country to just give birth for the explicit purpose of securing citizenship for their
cash, food, housing or medical care compared to only 30% of native households. and we aren t just talking by the way about folks on these over stays or who cross the border illegally. many of you would be stunned it to know that there are entire industries both here and abroad that are now devoted to gaining the birthright citizenship system. it s called birth tourism and its become big business in the united states, attracting immigrants from china, taiwan, mexico, russia, and turkey. what they do is they purchase package deals, where they come to the u.s. for a month or several months and have their baby on american soil. for upwards of $50,000 to those foreigners guaranteed u.s. citizenship for their children. it s wild.
laura: and they want the passport to reinforce this point why? it depends on the people. one, it s an escape hatch. it s a way to get out or at least get the kid out. the last helicopter off the embassy are much more likely to have your kid on it if it has a passport. number two, it s almost a retirement program for some people. then they have an easier way of getting into college and finally for some people it s a way of dodging the draft. if you don t want to serve in the turkish army, and i wouldn t, this is a way you send your kid here. laura: this is not what our framers intended. as china cool with this? you work with a lot of immigrants from china, or people who come here as tourists and they do this birth tourism.
of new york officials. a lot of these operations are going to be like this, kind of sleazy i won t say black market but they are not properly registered. and there are that or higher quality, but this seems to be a discount operation. if you really have a lot of china will make money in china and he wanted to get a u.s. passport for your kid, there are higher and versions of this kind of thing and it s not just chinese. there are russian birth tourism, people from mexico, this is a big business and it s all legal. these people are not breaking our laws, we are the ones who have this set up of rules that lets people have a kill it, kid here, wait a month or two for the passport to come in the mail and then they leave. at least the children s illegal immigrants actually grow up here, these kids never grow up as americans, they grow up in china where they grow up
border and planning an executive order on birthright citizenship to reign in birth tourism, the president is making it clear that the border and whether it exists at all or ought to bede defended is the central issue. a democrat, former cia officer joins usoc tonight. thanks a lot for coming on. you are a lifelong democrat froa a family of democrats from eastern oregon, moderate fdr democrats. so taking trump the man out of the equation, when they hear policies like this, troops to the border, end birthright citizenship for illegal immigrants, what s their responses democrats to that? positive.ei i think most folks feel a sense of compassion. certainly in my own family for the people in central and south america who are struggling economically or who have done my current property. but most people understand, my family included that we have laws for a reason and you can commit an uninvited and unvented and just march across the border.en and secondarily you can t come to the country,