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More Immigrants from China than Mexico
I am surprised:
2013 US Immigrants
China - 147,000
Mexico - 125,000
India - 129,000
Supposedly, this can be both legal and illegal, and data is per the census. But, it may under count non-legal immigration. Labels: immigrating
NY's Largest Chinatown Sunset Park
A+ article about Fujianese in Brooklyn.
I love this quote:
Principal Ruth Stanislaus was amazed when one kindergartner’s mother said, in faltering English: “My son must go Harvard.”
Hardworking Fujianese immigrants use the borough as a launching pad to the middle class.
City Journal
Key Points:
- As of 2010, Asian Americans’ median household income was $66,000, the
highest of any demographic group in the nation, according to the Pew
Research Center.
- Sunset Park's Chinatown is now the largest NY Chinatown. Larger than Flushing or Manhattan. I have family that lives in Flushing.
- Smuggling can costs $50,000 or more
- Reverse Migration, where parents send their kids back to China to be taken care of. I have seen this.
- Sunset Park and Borough Park zip codes had among the largest number of
acceptances at the city’s specialized, competitive high schools.
- No matter how poor they are, parents find a way to get their fourth- or fifth-graders into test-prep classes.
Labels: chinatowns, college admissions, immigrating
Why are Majority of Top Colleges in the Anglospere
Thinking of Home Makes It Harder to Learn a Foreign Language
I wonder if this means it actually makes sense, in Taiwan to learn English from a White Person? I always thought it was more important the person / teacher, rather than where they are from. There is a group in Taiwan, I blogged about it, that is against discrimination for English Teachers who are non White, in Taiwan.
The article is about how the mind, when reminded of home, is harder for learning a foreign language. This is probably why full immersion is such a great teaching method. And if you go to a foreign country, you can usually Learn a Foreign Language such as Chinese, much faster.
Thinking of Home Makes It Harder to Learn a Foreign Language - Wired
Labels: immigrating, learn chinese
STEM Students discouraged from US Colleges by Immigration Red Tape
The current H1B system is broken, and it is very hard for a US College graduate, from a foreign country to work after college here. Stupid. After the US pays a huge amount to graduate people with Master and PhD's in Science, Technology, Engineering, or Math we make it very hard for them to work in the US. Often they get jobs and are stuck in the job, with little recourse, until they finally, if they are lucky, get their green card. I view it as a form of indentured servitude.
International STEM Students Ditching US for Canada, Australia - Via Meadia Labels: college admissions, immigrating, STEM
Taiwan's new visa-free travel a boon to Southern California
Great news for So. CA tourism - SG Tribune
Taiwan's new visa-free travel a boon to Southern California. A grad school friend from Taiwan did not see her Mother for the longest time, because her Mother could not be approved for a VISA. The friends Mother missed her Wedding.Labels: immigrating
California 'maternity hotel' where Chinese women pay thousands to give birth and make their babies American citizens closes
Maternity Hotels
Good article that includes a picture of an apartment complex in Rowland Heights. Trust me, there is a LOT of Mothers staying in that apartment complex.
In suburbs of L.A., a cottage industry of birth tourism - LA Times
Companies operating 'maternity hotels' cater
to pregnant women from Chinese-speaking nations who want an
American-citizen newborn.
163 comments on the LA Times article! The comments are vitrolic - mean.
Cute logo:
One of the reasons for getting a foreign passport I just found out, was so they can go to an International School. Also, China does not recognize dual citizenship.
Another blog post on this: Birthright citizenship and East Asian elites - The Plaid Bag Connection Labels: bilingual babies, immigrating, maternity hotels
Anchor Babies from China - Can anything be done?
Anchor babies is where people from a foreign country come to the US for the express purpose of giving birth so their child has US citizenship. Agencies charge $5,000 to $15,000 for room and board. My guess is hospital fees are extra, as well as airfare.
So can anything be done about this? My guess is nothing, since the current majority interpretation of the 14th amendment is automatic citizenship. A changing the US constitution is almost impossible - 27 ammendments in 200 years.
Key wording from the 14th amendment
All persons born or naturalized in the United States and subject to the
jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State
wherein they reside.
A site that disagrees:
http://www.14thamendment.us/index.html
Some nations do not automatically give citizenship for having been born in a country. The long term problem is then you may have several generations of immigrants, who never become citizens to a country.
A surprising fact is that China and the US do not recognize dual citizenship. I have noticed lots of Chinese and Taiwanese have dual passports. It makes customs a lot easier when visiting China or Taiwan. One Taiwanese I know even changed his last name to an American name, he explained he got treated better when visiting China. My wife's was shocked an ethnic Chinese would do this, since the name has such a huge meaning. Labels: immigrating, US Chinese Image
Anger at California 'maternity mansion'
E-2 Visa's
I did not know about E2 Visas. Unfortunately there is no way to get to a Green Card from it.
Personal opinion - the current immigration system is broken and does not make sense.
E-2 visa helps many non-U.S. citizens start small firms - LA Times
A business can be approved for as little as a $50,000 investment. But meeting the visa requirements is not easy, and if the firm hits hard times, the owner can lose the right to stay in the country.Labels: immigrating
San Gabriel shuts down makeshift maternity ward catering to 'birthing tourism'
Visa Loopholes with Colleges
Only in America
And of course there was also a counter demonstration. A celebration of China in the San Gabriel Valley - LA Times
Hundreds of residents and community gather in Monterey Park to mark the 61st anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic of China. Its interesting to see the changes in the ethnic composition of the Chinese community in the US. It's a mixture of families who have been here since the Gold Rush (1849), as well as other ethnic Chinese immigrants from Thailand, Singapore, Indonesia, etc. and later immigrants before the big change with the 1965 act (more Hong Kong and Taiwanese), and now mainland Chinese. Labels: immigrating
Baby US Passports for under $10K?
With the huge mess that US immigration is, it makes so much sense to give a child a great gift of having a US passport and for under $10K! Fee Estimates$1,475 - Basic Fee $3000 - Housing for 3 months. $5000 Hospital Costs (since this is a business, I assume this is negotiated). For many pregnant Chinese, a U.S. passport for baby remains a powerful lure - Washington Post. My wife thinks there is a house around where I live that is providing this service. We keep on seeing groups of pregnant women walking around around twilight. Or they were walking around when it was cooler. This pregnancy trade is an unintended consequence of the 14th amendment (which has no realistic chance of being changed). Because it's so hard to make changes to the US constitution, even the ERA amendment, it also makes the US constitution an incredibly powerful force in US Law. Labels: immigrating
How US unfriendly borders help China
In the name of security air travel in the US has become dreadful. Getting into the US as a foreign visitor has also become more unpleasant. Per the Economist, in a survey by a 2 to 1 margin, the US has the worst experience in customs of any country. The same article also notes how many scientific conferences preferring to convene outside of the US due to visa issues. The NY Times article mentioned how many Chinese PhD students at one university in the US are now going back to China. PhD's leaving the US are a huge loss of educational capital. It costs a university more to educate a PhD than they bring in tuition. The reason is the number of faculty hours a PhD students takes, in small seminars, compared to the larger class sizes for master and undergraduate students. Thomas Friedman had a proposal a while ago, that for certain major s when a foreign citizen person graduates in the US with an advanced degree, they automatically get a green card. The current H1B system is broken and leads to exportation of many in it. You are forced to stay with the employer who sponsors you until you get a green card, and if you change employers you have to reapply for a green card and start the process over again. I view it as a form of indentured servitude. I hope the US changes this short sited policy. The flow of amazingly talented individuals educated in the US is a huge loss of human capital. There are so many companies founded by immigrants in Silicon Valley with advanced degrees. Bin Laden's legacy - Lexington in the Economist Labels: immigrating
Hidden Chinese Society in the US
Chinatown ID ring busted from the Chicago Tribune. People without papers, including a few Chinese, were paying $1200 to $3400 for a package of documents including driver licenses and a forged Social Security card. Cost I read a while back was around $20K to get from China to here illegally. Labels: immigrating
Angel Island - the Chinese Ellis Island
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