visas to pregnant women traveling to the u.s. for the primary purpose of giving birth here, guaranteeing coveted u.s. citizenship to their children the white house says the change is necessary to enhance public safety, national security and the integrity of our immigration system it comes after president trump has railed against birthright citizenship. you re a dictator who we hate and who is against us and that dictator has his wife have a baby on american soil. congratulations, your son or daughter is now an american citizen. does anybody think this makes sense reporter: but critics have questioned how effective the new rules will be and some saying administration does not have the right to curb birthright citizenship through executive action since it s part of the constitution. nbc news has tracked the phenomenon of birth tourism for years. kate snow visiting this maternity hotel in new york in 2011.
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now! what does it feel like to be an activist. it s my voice. my voice is the workers voice, kienlly had v a chance to say something, do something. vincent is just now getting the courage to stand up but there are thousands of chinese restaurant workers throughout the u.s. and so many of them live under the radar, in the shadows. it s a stark contrast with how many other chinese are coming to this country now. men luke my grandfather and vincent came to america and had to fight for a place here. but what if there were an easier way? it s called birth tourism. i m about to explore an industry that s providing a short cut to citizenship and
years, a chinese national pled guilty this week to running a birth tourism business in california. her clients, including china s government officials who paid big bucks to come here to give birth, giving the children of course automatic u.s. citizenship, crazy. experts say 40,000 births every year are attributable to birth tourism. how big a problem is this? it s a big one in california. long beach is one of the places where these birth motels have popped up, texas, florida, other states, new york. chicago. the president says he wants to get rid of his birthright citizenship. i think a lot of people would share that on. it is a huge problem. without this one woman pleading guilty, she herself is at least responsible for 500 fake american citizens being born here through this method of lying to get into the country and then giving birth here. but just so that your viewers understand what we are talking about here, we are talking about
17 years. a chinese national pled guilty this week to running a birth tourism business in california. her clients, including chinese government officials, who paid big bucks to come here to give birth, giving the children of course automatic u.s. citizenship, crazy. experts say 40,000 births every year are attributable to birth tourism. how big a problem is this? it s a big one in california. long beach is one of the places where these birth motels have popped up. texas, florida, other states, new york. chicago. the president says he wants to get rid of his birthright citizenship. i think a lot of people would share that on. it is a huge problem.we ve hn pleading guilty. she herself is at least responsible for 500 fake american citizens being born here through this method of lying to get into the country and then giving birth here. but just so that your viewers understand what we are talking