Republican Wisconsin Rep. Tom Tiffany asked Secretary of Homeland Security (DHS) Christa Noem to end the loophole that would allow Chinese citizens to visit the Northern Mariana Islands (CNMI), the territory of the United States. Ta. With daily callers.
Specifically, Tiffany requested that Gnome take steps to end the January 2024 regulations.Guam Commonwealth is automating and electronic travel approval for the Northern Mariana Islands (CNMI) visa waiver program. Creating the CNMI Economic Vitality and Security Travel Approval Program (EVS-TAP). ”
According to Tiffany, Biden-era rules continue the Obama program that allows “parole in the category” to Chinese citizens to travel to CNMI.
He wrote, as a result of the program, Chinese citizens “were able to avoid the legal requirement of obtaining a tourist visa first before entering CNMI.”
The loophole that Tiffany continued to bring about “a nasty rise in ‘birth tourism’.”
In the letter, the representative noted that the births of CNMI to foreign visitors jumped from under the age of 10 in 2009 to nearly 600 in 2018.
The phenomenon of foreigners giving birth in Saipan, the island’s capital, Tiffany wrote, “in recent years, such births have exceeded the number of births for legal Americans.”
The photo, taken on June 27, 2024, shows a general view of the Banzai cliffs in Saipan, in the northern Mariana Islands. This year marks the 80th anniversary of the Battle of Saipan, and the US launched amphibious attacks against the Japanese Empire on Saipan from June 15 to July 9, 1944 at the Pacific Theatre in World War II. . The fight allegedly claimed tens of thousands of military and civilian casualties. Yamazaki Yuichi/AFP via Getty Images
The birth tourism phenomenon has become the cottage industry. Tiffany wrote in the letter that it caused a network of criminal trafficking. DOJ He was indicted The US/Taiwan dual citizen Richard Penn from 2016 to 2017 was involved in an underground birth tourism network that paid thousands of dollars for packages that Chinese women could give birth to US soil. Penn pleaded guilty and was sentenced to six months in prison. He also received a year of supervised release and a $2,000 fine.
According to Tiffany, the loophole also allows foreign children who become citizens to petition their parents and secure green cards.
In addition to the courage of the crime syndicate, lawmakers also noted that loopholes have enacted national security threats. (Related: The Trump administration plans to fight birthright citizenship until Scotts)
“Setting aside some of our birthright citizenship, it allows people to acquire citizenship that comes from communist China,” Tiffany told the daily caller.
He pointed to current CIA chief John Ratcliffe’s 2020 statement. Called Communist China: “The national security threat to the United States is more than any other country.”
“In short, PRC citizens should have to meet the same criteria to visit the CNMI, which they must meet to visit other parts of the United States,” Tiffany’s letter concluded.
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President Trump issued it Presidential Order He ends his birthright citizenship on his first day in office. However, the judge quickly blocked the order and called it “blatantly unconstitutional.” According to a report from the Daily Caller News Foundation, the language of the order also left a potential loophole for women who work as agents of foreign children.
Republican Arizona Rep. Andy Biggs praised Trump’s orders and told the caller it was “r.”Things to do. “However, lawmakers also sounded the alarm for the CNMI loophole.
“wWhat’s happening in the northern Mariana is particularly troubling because it’s not well known and widely abused,” he told the caller.
He also said that it is not the only place where Chinese citizens are targeting “obstetric tourism.”
