Being An American Citizen Case Study

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The definition of a citizen is a person born in a place or a naturalized resident.
The southern California is more populated by birth tourism. Most of the people from China, Taiwan, Korea are involve in birth tourism. They give birth to their baby in USA and after few months they took them their own homeland. For example, one woman born to a birth tourist in New York in 1989 and return to Taiwan two month after giving birth with baby. After 15 year that baby came USA to be a citizen but she told that “she is more Taiwan then American”. She using USA resources facilities but she thinks USA a foreign country. This kind of issues is increasing day by day; government should do something regarding this problem. Some major step should be taken.

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