Birth Tourism Has Economic Benefits?
July 7, 2026
That’s what a Cato adjunct scholar claims. Birthright citizenship, which certainly includes birth tourism anchor babies, is, according to Michelangelo Landgrave, not only “enshrined in the United States Constitution by the 14th Amendment, but it has also greatly benefited the United States economy.”
Laurence M. Vance [send him mail] writes from central Florida. He is the author of The Free Society; War, Christianity, and the State: Essays on the Follies of Christian Militarism; War, Empire, and the Military: Essays on the Follies of War and U.S. Foreign Policy; King James, His Bible, and Its Translators, and many other books. His newest book is The U.S. Proxy War in Ukraine.

