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City Council of Rchmond, BC (Canada's epicentre of birth tourism) asks Feds to ban the practise:

The city is trying to tackle birth tourism locally by shutting down businesses promoting it while pushing the federal government to ban it outright.

In the meantime, the U.S. State Department recently put in rules that prohibit women who are pregnant from getting tourist visas to the U.S., something Richmond-Queensborough MLA Jas Johal praised.

“I don’t agree with a vast majority of things Trump says or does — in fact, he offends me in many cases — but the fact he’s dealing with this issue is a commentary on how far back Canada is that we’re not,” he said.

At Monday’s committee meeting, a motion by Coun. Carol Day to write to Marco Mendicino, the Minister of Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship, urging him to end birthright citizenship for non-Canadians was supported by almost all of council....

https://www.richmond-news.com/news/r...ism-1.24068382