How many, how expensive, and how much is this offset by others who come back and pay taxes?

I have seen a lot of freakouts about birth tourism since the recent SCOTUS ruling and I haven’t seen anyone give even the most cursory overview of the actual scale of the supposed problem. It’s purely an emotional reaction.

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throwaway85825 8 hours ago | parent [-]

Usually birth tourism is done by wealthier foreigners but that foreign wealth is not visible to the government so they end up qualifying for welfare.

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zzrrt 7 hours ago | parent | next [-]

What kind of welfare? Do you have stats or stories? I'm skeptical someone wealthy would slum it for the peanuts they could get from welfare fraud.

Or if they do, surely there are ways wealthy "real Americans" could hide their money just as easily and defraud welfare, so this isn't really a problem specific to birth tourism.

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throwaway85825 7 hours ago | parent [-]

Hard for Americans to hide their assets in america. Land ownership is usually public.

	▲	zzrrt 6 hours ago \| parent [-]
		They can do whatever you presume the rich birth tourist does, like deposit in foreign banks, not own US land, obfuscate land ownership through trusts or straw owners.

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wat10000 8 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

That doesn’t answer my questions at all.