On Wednesday, Just the News posted an article about some changes the U.S. State Department is making to deal with birth tourism. The idea that a mother from China can come to America, have her child, take that child back to China with her, raise him there for eighteen years, and then he can come back to America as a legal voter is frightening to me.

The article reports:

Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced Wednesday a new visa restriction policy that targets migrants who engage in or profit illegally from the birth tourism industry.

The secretary claimed foreign commercial birth tourism networks have exploited the American immigration system to sell U.S. citizenship for profit by coaching people seeking American citizenship on how to lie on their visa applications.

Rubio said he is creating a new policy under the Immigration and Nationality Act that targets “individuals who knowingly engage in, have engaged in, or facilitate birth tourism to the United States.”

The policy targets owners, operators, and managers of commercial birth tourism networks, visa “fixers” who coach applicants to commit fraud, foreign medical providers and other individuals who support, abet, and enable birth tourism.

The article concludes:

The move comes after President Donald Trump signed an order last month that directs the State Department to issue rules and guidance to stop birth tourism, even as U.S. law already bans tourists from obtaining visas “for the primary purpose of obtaining U.S. citizenship for a child by giving birth in the United States.”

The idea that anyone born in America, including people whose parents are here illegally, is automatically a citizen is ridiculous. The Fourteenth Amendment was put in the U.S. Constitution to insure that the children of former slaves would be legal American citizens. Unfortunately the Amendment has been abused in order to set up an eventual time bomb in American elections.