MSNBC
By Adam Howard
August 27, 2015
Republican
presidential candidate Carly Fiorina on Thursday reiterated claims made
by her rival Jeb Bush that Asian women sometime come to the U.S. for
the purpose of
having babies, which then provide them with the rewards of American
citizenship, health care and education.
During
remarks to the press in Le Mars, Iowa, Fiorina, who has had some
momentum in the polls since her well-received debate performance earlier
this month, asserted that
“there’s an industry that has been set up in L.A. where Chinese women
come over on a tourist visa and have a baby. This abuse has been going
on for a while. We need to stop it.”
“We
need to stop abuses like this by enforcing the laws we have,” she
added. “But instead, as unfortunately what happens too often in a
political season, everybody tries
to distract people from festering problems that have never been solved
to talk about something new. Well, let’s talk about birthright citizenship. Let’s talk about something else. We have to fix these
problems. It’s ridiculous that women are coming in and
doing this. We know it’s happening. Let’s fix it.”
Bush
on Monday alluded to similar behavior during comments that were
intended to diffuse criticism of his use of the controversial term
“anchor babies.”
“Frankly,
it’s more related to Asian people coming into our country, having
children in that organized effort taking advantage of a noble concept
which is birthright citizenship,”
Bush told reporters, a comment which drew harsh criticism from
prominent members of the Asian community and 2016 front-runner Donald
Trump.
According
to Politico, there are some statistics to back up Bush and Fiorina’s
charges. Federal agents have been cracking down on so-called “birth
tourism” in Southern
California for years. There are conflicting reports on the number of
babies born in the U.S. to foreign mothers visiting the country, but it
has been pegged to be in the thousands.
Fiorina,
a former CEO of Hewlett-Packard, mounted a failed U.S. Senate campaign
in California back in 2010. At that time, she supported the DREAM Act,
however her support
for the polarizing SB-1070 Arizona immigration law may have alienated
Latino voters in the deep blue state. In this election cycle, she has
seemed relatively moderate compared to some of her GOP competitors on
the issue of immigration.
She says she opposes a pathway to citizenship for undocumented immigrants, however.
“I
think legal status is a possibility for sure,” Fiorina said on a June
episode of msnbc’s “Morning Joe.” “I think their children maybe can
become citizens.”
“But
my own view is that it isn’t fair to say to people who have played by
the rules … that you know it just doesn’t matter,” she continued.
Fiorina’s
remarks on Thursday were not her first incendiary comments on China. In
a video recorded in Iowa earlier this year that was shared by Buzzfeed
in May, the former
businesswoman said, “I’ve been doing business in China for decades, and
I will tell you that yeah, the Chinese can take a test, but what they
can’t do is innovate. They’re not terribly imaginative. They’re not
entrepreneurial. They don’t innovate. That’s why
they’re stealing our intellectual property.”
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