Police doctor in trouble over US birth-right tip

By The Nation

 

Pol Lt Colonel Dr Anchulee (Teerawongpaisan) Phetcharat

 

A former deputy police spokeswoman could come under scrutiny by both the Royal Thai Police and the Medical Council of Thailand after suggesting on social media that Thai women can give birth in the United States using a legal loophole to obtain US nationality.

 

Pol Lt-General Withoon Nitiwarangkul, director of Police General Hospital, where Pol Lt Colonel Dr Anchulee (Teerawongpaisan) Phetcharat – colloquially known as Dr Air – serves in the Department of  of Psychiatry and Drug Dependence, said on Friday he had instructed public relations officials at the hospital to look into the matter. 

 

Their findings would determine whether Anchulee violating any rule, he said, and if so, would lead to an official probe. 

 

Withoon stressed that there was no fact-finding or disciplinary probe underway as yet.

 

Medical Council secretary-general Dr Itthiporn Khanacharoen said his agency was checking whether Anchulee’s “personal post” online had breached medical professional ethics.

 

Anchulee, who gave birth to a son earlier this month, drew criticism after posting a photo of herself pregnant on May 14 with a message inscribed on her belly in Thai. 

 

The caption invited interested mothers-to-be to give birth in the US to secure a better future and good opportunities for their child. It said they could get free counselling from a private-sector service. 

 

Anchulee deleted the post in the wake of numerous negative comments, including some questioning whether abuse of the claimed legal loophole was fair to American taxpayers.

 

The US constitution deems anyone born in the country an American citizen. Thousands of foreigners go there every year to give birth and thus gain for their children US citizenship and the privileges it offers, including free primary and secondary education. 

 

US citizens can also apply for permission for their parents, spouses and children under 21 who live abroad to relocate to the US. 

 

The Centre for Migration Studies puts the figure at 36,000 foreign women giving birth in the US each year, with many coming from China, Taiwan, South Korea, Nigeria, Turkey, Russia, Brazil and Mexico.

 

The administrator of the US-based Facebook page “CSI LA” criticised Anchulee’s post. 

 

“I don’t know if Dr Air knows she is breaking US law by posting such an invitation to pregnant women to give birth in the US,” it said. 

 

“US Immigration Police have been suppressing gangs for such ‘birth tourism’. Many Chinese agents were arrested and jailed. How can Dr Air [do this, since she serves] as a police officer and a doctor? Is it for financial gain, a commission fee from the private sector?”

 

Full story: http://www.nationmultimedia.com/detail/breakingnews/30369559

 

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Dr. Air (Head) and people like her are the reason why it's so difficult to get a visa for a foreign born spouse to visit you (or live) in your home country, she may be book smart but in reality a real dumb ass..

42 minutes ago, webfact said:

US Immigration Police

There is no such entity.

48 minutes ago, webfact said:

US citizens can also apply for permission for their parents, spouses and children under 21 who live abroad to relocate to the US.

Sounds like the EU. 

32 minutes ago, zydeco said:

There is no such entity.

Maybe that's why Big Joke was over there. He set one up. There's not much that man can't do. 

And she shows that the US is so much more kind and accepting than Thailand. Don't figure.

1 hour ago, zydeco said:

There is no such entity.

Sure there is. It's called ICE. And they even have a video blog on their website called Police Week. Since they are Law Enforcement Officers they are police. 

The birth right thing might've made sense pre 1800 when the new nation needed to be populated. No idea why US doesn't get rid of it. Maybe somebody can shed some light on why it's still there.

 

EDIT: Piqued my interest so I googled a bit: https://www.history.com/news/birthright-citizenship-history-united-states

Edited May 17, 20197 yr by DrTuner

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The 14th Amendment extended birthright citizenship to all

The most sweeping declaration of birthright citizenship came in 1868: the Fourteenth Amendment. Not only did the law protect the civil rights of all, but it defined citizenship as applying to “All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof.”

The 14th amendment changed what a citizen was, to one who had privileges and immunities, not rights.  Why would you want to be a 14th amendment citizen?

6 hours ago, from the home of CC said:

Dr. Air (Head) and people like her are the reason why it's so difficult to get a visa for a foreign born spouse to visit you (or live) in your home country, she may be book smart but in reality a real dumb ass..

These xenophobic people have some nerve. My ex sister in law tried getting rid of my Thai social security medical insurance when I left for several months, not knowing I had set up auto withdraw payments with my Thai bank. Now they are regretting it because my other sister in law is now over staying and working illegally at a Thai restaurant here in the States. I hate to be a rat but....................... they have no critical thinking skills.

Edited May 17, 20197 yr by kritsana77
grammar

No doubt she is probably a vehement advocate and proponent of strict immigration laws in Thailand.

All children born in the USA have the right to citizenship there.  Good luck getting a Visa if you happen to be 6-7 months pregnant.  There is currently a huge scandal in California concerning Chinese who fly to America just to have their babies.

21 hours ago, zydeco said:

There is no such entity.

Border patrol, customs and immigration same same but different, or sum it all up and call it ICE

1 hour ago, mlmcleod said:

All children born in the USA have the right to citizenship there. 

The Trump administration has been taking exception to this.

I count three exceptions:

• President Trump plans to sign an executive order that would remove the right to citizenship for babies of non-citizens and unauthorized immigrants born on U.S. soil.  https://www.axios.com/trump-birthright-citizenship-executive-order-0cf4285a-16c6-48f2-a933-bd71fd72ea82.html
• A biological connection was necessary for a child of bi-national parents to benefit from birthright citizenship through adoption by American citizens. https://www.metroweekly.com/2019/05/state-department-appeals-decision-granting-citizenship-to-gay-binational-couples-son/
• The Trump administration is accusing hundreds, and possibly thousands, of Hispanics along the border of using fraudulent birth certificates since they were babies to prove citizenship. https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/the_americas/us-is-denying-passports-to-americans-along-the-border-throwing-their-citizenship-into-question/2018/08/29/1d630e84-a0da-11e8-a3dd-2a1991f075d5_story.html?noredirect=on&utm_term=.9ae0bcde673c

 

16 minutes ago, Srikcir said:

The Trump administration has been taking exception to this.

I count three exceptions:

• President Trump plans to sign an executive order that would remove the right to citizenship for babies of non-citizens and unauthorized immigrants born on U.S. soil.  https://www.axios.com/trump-birthright-citizenship-executive-order-0cf4285a-16c6-48f2-a933-bd71fd72ea82.html
• A biological connection was necessary for a child of bi-national parents to benefit from birthright citizenship through adoption by American citizens. https://www.metroweekly.com/2019/05/state-department-appeals-decision-granting-citizenship-to-gay-binational-couples-son/
• The Trump administration is accusing hundreds, and possibly thousands, of Hispanics along the border of using fraudulent birth certificates since they were babies to prove citizenship. https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/the_americas/us-is-denying-passports-to-americans-along-the-border-throwing-their-citizenship-into-question/2018/08/29/1d630e84-a0da-11e8-a3dd-2a1991f075d5_story.html?noredirect=on&utm_term=.9ae0bcde673c

 

Trump can "plan" all he wants. The US Constitution would require an amendment to change the right of citizenship to those born in USA. Executive orders do not trump constitution. This is just another cynical bone tossed to his crowd who are ignorant of supreme law of the land. His executive order would be struck down in the courts, at least for now, as he is stacking courts with those who have little to no respect for Constitution,

23 hours ago, webfact said:

The US constitution deems anyone born in the country an American citizen. Thousands of foreigners go there every year to give birth and thus gain for their children US citizenship and the privileges it offers, including free primary and secondary education.

The US education system is a complete mess right now. Kids are being indoctrinated with leftist propaganda at every level. Free education indeed. You get what you pay for. I would not teach in a public school and I certainly would  not send my kid to a public school in the US. 

1 hour ago, mlmcleod said:

All children born in the USA have the right to citizenship there.  Good luck getting a Visa if you happen to be 6-7 months pregnant.  There is currently a huge scandal in California concerning Chinese who fly to America just to have their babies.

I remember seeing ads for Koreans almost 20 years ago touting US birth services. Kids born in the US didn't have to do mandatory military service in SK. 

7 minutes ago, Emdog said:

Trump can "plan" all he wants. The US Constitution would require an amendment to change the right of citizenship to those born in USA. Executive orders do not trump constitution. This is just another cynical bone tossed to his crowd who are ignorant of supreme law of the land. His executive order would be struck down in the courts, at least for now, as he is stacking courts with those who have little to no respect for Constitution,

I bet you would love to see the 1st and 2nd amendment repealed though.

It’s called “Anchor Baby”.  Has been going on for years.  Several years ago a Chinese Airliner had to make an emergency landing in Alaska because a Chinese woman went into labor.  Guess what she was planning on doing in the US.  Apparently she actually gave birth in International Airspace therefore the Anchor Baby strategy did not work this time.  

Well it's true isn't it? If you are legally in the US and have a child then the child can be an American citizen. I don't understand what the fuss is all about.

1 hour ago, sqwakvfr said:

It’s called “Anchor Baby”.  Has been going on for years.  Several years ago a Chinese Airliner had to make an emergency landing in Alaska because a Chinese woman went into labor.  Guess what she was planning on doing in the US.  Apparently she actually gave birth in International Airspace therefore the Anchor Baby strategy did not work this time.  

I thought no airline carried a woman more than 32 weeks gestation??

Some off topic posts and replies have been removed. 

4 hours ago, Pedrogaz said:

Well it's true isn't it? If you are legally in the US and have a child then the child can be an American citizen. I don't understand what the fuss is all about.

Thirty thousand chinese fly to the USA every year to give birth to their anchor babies and then head back to China. They now have a free get out of China card. In a day and age that the average American is finally understanding that China is the enemy these 30,000 a year is a danger. China is building up a fifth column to be stationed in the USA.

On 5/18/2019 at 1:49 PM, bkkgriz said:

I bet you would love to see the 1st and 2nd amendment repealed though.

You'd lose the bet.

#1 Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.

#2 A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.

Would be nice if #2 held to original text