Legal Immigrant Kris Ramsingh Denounces Birth Tourism After 9-Year Path to U.S. Citizenship
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Updated · Fox News · Jul 4
Legal Immigrant Kris Ramsingh Denounces Birth Tourism After 9-Year Path to U.S. Citizenship
1 articles · Updated · Fox News · Jul 4
Summary
Virginia business owner Kris Ramsingh said birth tourism and illegal immigration are a "slap in the face" to immigrants who followed the legal process, tying his criticism to the recent Supreme Court ruling on birthright citizenship.
Ramsingh, born in Trinidad, said his own path from arriving in 2006 to becoming a U.S. citizen in 2015 required vaccines, documentation, a background check and proof he would not rely on the state.
Just $300 and a few suitcases marked his arrival with his wife nearly 20 years ago; he said that experience shaped his support for Trump's immigration policies and his view that the U.S. is "anti-invasion," not anti-immigrant.
Roanoke-based Ramsingh has since built two businesses and a missionary nonprofit, casting his story around Independence Day as proof that legal immigration can still deliver the American Dream.