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Birth tourism is absolutely a thing, especially for affluent people of 2nd and 3rd world countries, at least in my experience.
I've met and known a lot, and I mean countless, wealthy people from Mexico and South America, whose parents come here to give birth, returned home to raise their kids, and then the kids move back to the states for college.
I'm not saying that's bad, or good, I'm just saying it's real.
I just looked up the actual numbers and the highest estimate I could find was that there could be about 70,000 babies born to parents on temporary visas each year (Center for Immigration Studies). Other figures suggested around 10,000 at most but I picked the biggest one to make a point:
It doesn't fucking matter.
70,000 births a year in a nation that has 3.5 million births/year is nothing. That's 2% so I'm going to reiterate that nobody should care. It's a stupidly small figure that is of zero consequence.
The only negative connotation one could derive from this figure is founded in racism.
Are you saying it attracts more of the wealthy, intelligent and motivated people to this country? Horrors!
That's not how I would describe the nepo babies and trust fund kids of Mexico and South America.
But I guess you're free to feel differently.