but to come in for the sake of giving birth, i think that something that should be we should be concerned about and we are concerned because we don t welcome the type of image that we want to portray in the commonwealth which is birth tourism. we have one of the nicest beautiful beaches, 85 degrees all year round and we have some of the most beautiful islands in the marianas. this is how we want to market our islands is a beautiful island to come. peaceful, relaxing, water activities and so forth. the last couple of years national media has made at this type of tourism which is just a fraction of our tourism industry, yet those actions have hampered the ability to have our image and what we want to portray in the cmis. tucker: and that s
to immigrate to the united states. to get these benefits, the benefits of citizenship in our current law, a person simply has to be born in the united states. doesn t matter where in the circumstances are completely irrelevant. not surprisingly, our generosity, and we are very generous to offer this, is being badly exploited. every year, tens of thousands of tourists traveled to the northern mariana islands, and american territory, just to give birth to children. those childrente automatically become american citizens. now the mariana islands are begging our congress to revisit america s birthright citizenship law so this doesn t happen. it s a travesty, they see it every day. torres is the governor of the northern mariana islands and we are happy to have them on time. governor, thanks a lot dennis. thank you. mark: how common is this problem, birth tourism in the northern mariana islands? it has been more common and frequent in the lastbl few years
citizenship, is that correct? yes. the resolution is basically saying we acknowledge the importance of our tourism. we welcome our tourism, because that s the backbone of our economy, but to have a birth tourism as a tourism itself, we don t appreciate that because it hurt our health care, and that s the bottom line of our concern. mark: right. understandably.st so in mainland united states, particularly in washington, people who criticize birthright tourism are denounced as racist. i don t know if you re aware of that. what you make of that fact? people who don t like birthright citizenship are racist, is that a fair thing to say? i don t think it s fair to say, because for us, we welcoe them as tourists. we have programs under security, we welcome every tourist. but to come in for the sake of
tucker: so you are proposing that we get rid of birthright citizenship, is that correct? yes. the resolution itself is basically saying that we acknowledge we welcome our tourism because that s the backbone of our economy but to have a birth tourism as tourism itself, we don t appreciate that because it has heard our health care and that is the bottom line of our concern. tucker: understandably. so in mainland united states, particularly in washington, people who criticize birthright tourism are denounced as racist. i don t know if you are aware of that. what do you make of that? i don t think it s fair to say because for us we welcome them. as tourists we have programs that is under homeland security and we welcome every tourist.
giving birth, i think that s something that we should be concerned of and we are concerned, because we don t welcome this is not the type of image that we want to portray in the commonwealth, birth tourism. we have one of the nicest, beautiful beaches, 85 degrees all year round. the most beautiful islands and this is what we want to market, our islands, is a beautiful island to come and it s peaceful, relaxing, water activities and so forth. and that s the image and the last couple of years the national media, this type of tourism, which is just a fraction of our tourism industry. but yet those actions have the ability to have our image that what we want a to portray them . tucker: of course, of course, that s understandable. all of us credit dominant pay