Biden Nominee for USCIS Director Seems to Defend Birth Tourism

According to this article on Center for Immigration Studies, by Robert Law

“President Biden has nominated Ur Jaddou, who spent the past four years as a vocal advocate for unlimited immigration and a critic of the Trump administration, to become the director of U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS). Last week, I analyzed a portion of Jaddou’s written responses to Questions for the Record (QFR) submitted by several Senate Judiciary Committee Republicans that reveal that Jaddou is a proponent of executive amnesties using a broad and categorical interpretation of parole and deferred action. In this follow-up piece, I will focus exclusively on Jaddou’s concerning defense of birth tourism.

Birth tourism is the controversial practice of an alien woman entering the United States, typically on a B nonimmigrant tourist visa, to give birth here so that the child will acquire U.S. citizenship. The current interpretation of the 14th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution grants U.S. citizenship to nearly every baby born in the country. Treating the child as a U.S. citizen opens up the ability to sponsor relatives for green cards down the road. Unsurprisingly, this treatment has given rise to a lucrative shadow industry that the Center estimates results in at least 20,000 to 26,000 birth tourists each year.”