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https://amp.thedailybeast.com/russians-flock-to-trump-properties-to-give-birth-to-us-citizens?source=twitter&via=desktop&__twitter_impression=trueAnatoliy Kuzmin held out his daughters blue U.S. passport over a red Russian one and snapped a photo from a Florida beach.
Woohoo! Got dual citizenship for my daughter! he wrote on Instagram.
American citizenship for the newborn girl was the goal of Kuzmin and his Instagram-celebrity wife, who sought the help of birth-tourism services in Florida for the arrival of their first child. They are among the estimated hundreds of Russian parents who flock to the U.S. annually for warm weather, excellent medical care, and, more importantly, birthright American citizenship.
And many, like Kuzmin and his wife, stay at President Donald Trumps properties in Florida.
While Trump rails against U.S.-born children of undocumented immigrants, his Florida properties have become a playground for birth tourists from Russias upper crust. The Daily Beast has discovered several companies are advertising rentals in Trump properties to expectant Russian parents. While the Trump Organization does not directly profit from subleases of privately owned condos, it does benefit from Russian patronage of the nearby Trump International Beach Resort. (The Trump Organization did not return requests comment.)
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duforsure
(11,885 posts)From pro russia putin hugging beenadick donald.
BigmanPigman
(51,674 posts)TNNurse
(6,933 posts)iluvtennis
(19,912 posts)SCVDem
(5,103 posts)Here in Los Angeles.
Ours was Chinese mothers doing the same.
chowder66
(9,108 posts)It was here in my apartment building when they started the airbnb crap. They arrived very pregnant stayed a month, delivered and left.
They also seemed to have a handler who was staying here and boy was she a nightmare. She would eavesdrop and stare down everyone.
Blue_Tires
(55,445 posts)And they're secretly relieved that somebody somewhere is trying to ever-so-slightly offset the numbers of dark-skinned immigrant children...
ProudLib72
(17,984 posts)It's a loophole. It's cheating the system. I don't care who says it was legal. This must be part of the Dem platform: retract ill gotten citizenship. To think the grifter in chief is doing this while kidnapping babies is disgusting beyond belief.
Jim Lane
(11,175 posts)"Birth tourism" is not a Trump-era phenomenon. It's been going on a long time, and Russians are far from the only ones who do it.
The Fourteenth Amendment confers U.S. citizenship on anyone born here, with the statistically negligible exception of children born to foreign ambassadors who enjoy diplomatic immunity. Even if the parents entered illegally -- in fact, even if the mother gives birth while in custody awaiting deportation -- the kid is a citizen.
Offhand, I can't think of any rewording of the Fourteenth Amendment that wouldn't be a disaster on many levels.
The Constitution would probably allow the government to require a pregnancy test of any woman seeking to enter the country, and to bar all those who tested positive. That would be absurd, and would still allow birth tourism, merely restricting it to those wealthy enough to enter while not pregnant and then stay here the full nine months.
TheBlackAdder
(28,261 posts).
He said that they would put down that they were of Jewish heritage, when they knew nothing about Judaism.
This allowed them to leave Russia and move to this country under religious asylum type measures.
He said that most who moved here pretended to be Jewish just to be able to leave Russia, before it was stopped. While he said they knew these folks were not Jewish, they had ways to effectively beat the Russian system to qualify as Jewish.
He has a DoD security clearance, says Trump is not owned by Russia or Putin, and says that is Russia was so bad, the US would not have allowed him to go to St. Petersburg to work on relocation Russians to this country.
I'm so pissed at this guy right now. I'm trying to remain civil, but he's revealing himself more and more.
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HipChick
(25,485 posts)since he obtained US citizenship under false circumstances...
TheBlackAdder
(28,261 posts)HipChick
(25,485 posts)a couple of decades from now, they will be in US govt.
tinrobot
(10,927 posts)stuffmatters
(2,574 posts)Not to mention the Kush/Trump gambit that essentially sells American long term visa when you "invest in" (i.e. buy) one of their condos
over $500,000. Another immigration law loophole they've made billions off of.
Initech
(100,150 posts)NCjack
(10,279 posts)Donald's Russian criminal buddies. That's a bad deal for us. These Russians are tied to the mob and they will terrorize America.
FakeNoose
(32,917 posts)I mean that sincerely, they have been sending "deep cover" Russian spies to the US since even before the fall of the USSR. Some of these supposedly immigrant families are really spies, just like the TV shows. They're sleepers and they report back to Putin every so often. We're stupid to even accept immigrants from Russia, they should all be banned.
BTW this started long before Trump was involved, but they've found him to be accommodating and not very curious about their activities or livelihoods. He's the perfect cover for their spying activities.
NCjack
(10,279 posts)is helping transfer the money to USA. For a share, McConnell and Ryan have developed blindness to criminal activities.
FakeNoose
(32,917 posts)bdamomma
(63,974 posts)white period.
fucking hypocrites, well whatever Putin is holding over tRump's head must be damaging bring in Russian mothers so their kids can be Americans, or should I say white Americans!!!