Mariana Alvarado, Arizona Daily Star, June 21, 2009
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Tucson Medical Center’s “birth package” gives an official nod to a generations-old practice of wealthy Mexican women coming to U.S. hospitals to give birth. Mexican families do the same thing at all local hospitals, but TMC is the only one actively recruiting their business.
The practice is legal, but offensive to some advocates of tougher U.S. immigration standards.
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The Mexican consul general in Tucson said parents naturally want to give their children every advantage and securing U.S. citizenship is something a small percentage of Mexican families can afford.
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Expectant mothers can either schedule a Caesarean section or arrive a few weeks before their due dates to give birth at TMC. It is one of 13 packages aimed at Mexican families, some of which include a stay at a local resort and shopping excursion.
TMC’s maternity package costs $2,300 for a vaginal birth with a two-day stay and $4,600 for a Caesarean section and a four-day stay, assuming no complications. That includes exams for the newborn and a massage for the new mother. There is a $500 surcharge per additional child.
“These are families with a lot of money, and some (women) arrive on private jets and are picked up by an ambulance and brought here,” said Shawn Page, TMC’s administrator of international services and relations. “These are families with a lot of clout.”
U.S. citizenship for their children brings even more clout: the opportunity—and right—to live, work and study in the United States. Because their parents do not earn the same right, many children of such arrangements grow up in Mexico and come here as adults for school and work.
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Array of packages
Aside from the maternity package, TMC offers 12 packages for international patients, including bone density tests, mammograms and urology procedures.
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(Posted on June 30, 2009)
Comments
“Tucson Medical Center recruits rich Mexicans for Birthright Citizenship,etc.”
At the risk of repeating myself for the millionth time, we have, both in and out of government, so many traitors in so many places in this nation. God help us all.
“Because their parents do not earn the same right, many children of such arrangements grow up in Mexico and come here as adults for school and work.”
Where they benefit from ‘diversity’ and affirmative action policies.
If these Mexican families have so much “money” and “clout,” then why aren’t they using those gifts to improve the living and medical situations in their own country?
The real problem here is the price is too low.
Selling citizenship outright for a quarter to a half million dollars per head would solve about 99% of our immigration problem. Yes, the odd Soros or Murdoch will get through, but those will under any system. On the other hand, a poor up-and-comer like Andy Grove or Linus Torvalds could easily take out a mortgage or attract a sponsor.
Where a benefit of U.S. citizenship is accrued, they should pay full market value.
Instead of just paying $2300 to the hospital, they should have to put up a figure based on the national worth of all the country’s wealth and resources. Once these are factored in, the figure for buying citizenship would be in the billions.
Of course, there would be no takers, which is the intent.
Until the loophole was closed by government decree, immense numbers of West African women were arrivuing in Ireland to give birth, thus qualifying their offspring for EU nationality.
Although I am not condoning this practice it may not be as bad as it seems. As I live in latin america 3 months a year I may have a little different take on this. Most here assume that all mexicans are the dark skinned short fat ones we see everywhere we go. But the ones we see in the street are the bottom of the barrel. The are 2 classes in latin america, 90ish percent are the poor indians and a few rich. And a few very rich, think Carlos Slim. The rich are white, descendants of the spanish. They dont breed with the indians. Remember ex pres Vincete Fox, as white as any of us, and thats what the rich look like. They are the business owners and actually live in a fashion due to the cheap labor that not even rich americans can live exept a tiny few. All of them have chaufers and bodyguards, gardeners, maids ect. They live in houses any of us here would love to live in. I live in a upper class suburb of Medellin Colombia 3 months a year. Near where I live is a private school. These kids look exactly like american white kids and all speak perfect, and I mean perfect english. I know an american guy who teaches math there and he says 1/2 of the classes are in english and the other 1/2 are in spanish and even in french. These kids I beleive get a better, or at least as good an education as in any exclusive american school. Their families vacation in the USA or europe as they can easily get a visa and have the money to go first class. And we should be glad to take thier vacation dollars.
We don’t really need any enemies when we have so many Americans working against their own country and their fellow citizens. Disgusting. Are there other hospitals that do this? This is on the level of the US schools who allow Mexican kids to come across the border to attend school. Seems there are traitors all over the country, not just confined to Washington.
#7 Kingfish is right, we are actually being inundated by the indian types from Guatemala, Hondo, Salvadore, Nicaragua and other places we don’t know their name. These indian types usually don’t even speak Spanish as we know it. Wal-Martinez loves them. Heard Wal-Mart called that here on AR and I like and use it now. The Southerners here are starting to use it now.
I have known some upper class Mexicans, 10% of Mexicans are fully Whites and they are usually the elite, many have blue eyes. So these rich are usually going to be White. However, I don’t condone the practice of selling citizenship, regardless of race.
It’s true. White in Latin America is almost synonym of rich. Look at these upper class Peruvians if you don’t believe me:
http://www.cosasperu.com/cosas421/s8.aspx http://www.cosasperu.com/cosas421/s10.aspx
Thanks Eduardo for posting the pics of the white upper class peruvianos. This is exactly what I was talking about in trying to descibe how the rich upper class latinos look. In my city of Medellin, or any other city in latin america, you will find about 10% of the folks looking completely white, just like these photos. And its something about these white latina girls that makes most of them look like models. I am not for miscenation of whites with 90% of the dark skinned indians, but with these people I see no difference from other whites. Latin america is also a good place for single men. The girls look like movie stars and the culture is such that they actually like men older. I am 54 and have a 32yo completely white very pretty never married col grad no kids girlfreind who still lives with her parents. In the usa its just not possible for a 54yo man to have this quality of girlfreind. I am now trying to get her a visa to visit here but its extremely difficult for a single girl to get a visa. Colombia, and probably a lot of other latin countries, exept the presently left wing commie countries like Venezuela also is a possible run place if things ever get too heated for conservatives in the USA. Before the election when the talk was of riots and chaos if O lost, I was looking at it in this way if Obama ever came after the whites, or our guns ect, so far this is has not been the worst case scenario. And a side benefit of Medellin is that the weather is perfect, between 70-85 every day of the year, never too hot and never cold.
