The MexicoBlog of the Americas Program, a fiscally sponsored program of the Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR), is written by Laura Carlsen. I monitor and analyze international press on Mexico, with a focus on security, immigration, human rights and social movements for peace and justice, from a feminist perspective. And sometimes I simply muse.
Sep 3, 2010
Immigration Reality vs. Madness: 'Birth tourism' a tiny portion of immigrant babies
'Birth tourism' a tiny portion of immigrant babies: "Princeton University demographer Douglas Massey said in 30 years studying Mexican immigration, he's never interviewed a migrant who said they came to the United States just to get citizenship for their children. 'Mexicans do not come to have babies in the United States,' said Massey. He blames the tightening of the border in the 1990s for cutting off normal migration of men who used to come to work for a year or two and then go home. 'They end up having babies in the United States because men can no longer circulate freely back and forth from homes in Mexico to jobs in the United States and husbands and wives quite understandably want to be together.'" Sept. 3, 2010, AP
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