Toys R Us Decides to Love ALL Babies!

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It really annoys me how illegal immigrant come to the US and demand rights that they would be murdered in their home country for asking for. I guarantee if I were in China illegally and won some type of contest I would not be rewarded with the prize. It's not right that these people break the law and receive benefits intended for legal citizens. If you are not contributing towards the government (by paying taxes) and are not here legally, you should not receive any benefits: end of story.

I bet you the OCD and any other civil rights group are not fighting for the right of immigrants to pay taxes! Why are not not calling discrimination when you are not required to put into the system? Why is it only wrong when you are not able to receive aid?

ALBERT WANG'S E-MAIL TO TOYS-R-US' LEGAL DEPARTMENT ON JANUARY 4, 2007

From: Albert Wang

To: Tennenberg, Joel

Cc: David J Schwartz Esq

Sent: Thursday, January 04, 2007 9:39 PM

Subject: Fw: Toys-R-Us First Baby of the Year

Joel,



I did not receive your return phone call today, even thought I left my cell phone number (917-[REDACTED]) again with your secretary. Neither have I received your response to my 3:45 p.m. e-mail. Toys-R-Us has not provided any legitimate explanation as to why the Chinese American baby girl GRAND PRIZE WINNER (as defined in your 1st Baby of the Year Sweepstakes Official Rules) was deprived of her $25,000 GRAND PRIZE, and was given a token gift BASKET, valued at approximately $100, a fraction of 1% of the Grand Prize. I find such nonresponse disturbing, and unbecoming of a good corporate citizen. Fortune 500 companies such as Toys-R-Us are corporate citizens, and should be wary of its social responsibility in setting good precedents for other small and mid-size corporate citizens.



According to your Official Rule #5, the "GRAND PRIZE WINNER" is defined as "the very first baby of 2007 born from among registered hospitals and/or registered women and/or OB/GYN's at or after 12:00 a.m. (local time in registrant time zone), on January 1, 2007."



The Chinese American baby girl born in New York City certainly satisfies the definition of "GRAND PRIZE WINNER", but was declared a "loser" by Toys-R-Us because of her ancestry---because her parents allegedly are not U.S. citizens. If this is not discrimination, please do provide me with your definition of what constitute definition.



Support for the conclusion that the Chinese American baby girl should have been the Grand Prize Winner is found in your Official Rule #6. The $25,000 US Savings Bond is "for the First Baby of the Year" and is "awarded in the name of the baby". Grand Prize Savings Bond will be awarded "in the baby's name only". If winning mother is a minor, price will be awarded "in baby's name" to mother's parent/legal guardian. The phrase "awarded in the baby's name" appears throughout your Official Rules, but you changed your Official Rules on baby girl who is the actual Grand Prize Winner who happens to be a Chinese American born to Chinese immigrant parents.



(Please double check my interpretation of your Official Rules with your outside legal counsel, and provide me with a copy of the legal opinion you receive from your outside legal counsel.)



When you make a mistake, the right thing to do is to apologize. To err is human; to ask for forgiveness, divine. Toys-R-Us should have awarded the First Baby of 2007 grand prize to the Chinese American girl born in New York City on January 1, 2007. Toys-R-Us should have given her the $25,000 U.S. Savings Bond (awarded in the name of the Chinese American baby girl)--the US Government Series EE bond which matures when she turns 17 years-old, so that she can use it for her education and pursue her American Dream. Instead, Toys-R-Us deprived her of her promised grand prize, notwithstanding the fact that she was born here in New York City, and therefore an American citizen. Toys-R-Us has not proactively taken the necessary steps to remedy this wrong. While this Chinese American baby girl, born to Chinese immigrant parents, are not likely to have the financial wherewithal to retain a lawyer like myself to fight for her legal rights against a billion dollar company such as Toys-R-Us, you should not assume that Toys-R-Us can show no remorse whatsoever for its wrongdoing without consequence. I hope that someone will step up to the plate and help this Chinese American to restore her rights as a legally born U.S. citizen, for the benefit of all Asian Americans in general, and Chinese Americans in particular.



If you have any interest in talking to me face-to-face, and take a non-litigation approach to resolve this matter amicably, and find a "win-win" solution that preserves the dignity of this Chinese American baby girl, the other Chinese Americans, and the other Asian Americans, please do not hesitate to contact me. My cell phone number is (917) [REDACTED]. My personal e-mail address is albertwang221@hotmail.com.



Sincerely,



Albert



cc: Gerald L. Storch, Chairman and CEO of Toys-R-Us (by First Class Mail)





----- Original Message -----

From: Albert Wang

To: tennenbj@toysrus.com

Cc: albertwang221@hotmail.com

Sent: Thursday, January 04, 2007 3:45 PM

Subject: Toys-R-Us First Baby of the Year

Joel,



Thank you. I note that the US Savings Bond for the very First Baby of the Year is "awarded in the name of the baby", and not in the name of the baby's mother, and that the bonds are US Government Series EE and mature 17 years (i.e., intended for the benefit of the U.S. born baby to be used for the baby's college education. Therefore, I believe that it would not be unconstitutional or illegal for the Chinese American first born baby to be the beneficiary of the US Savings Bond. Even if the Chinese American first born baby's parents cannot legally be the custodian or trustee of such baby's asset, a substitute trustee or guardian ad litem can be easily appointed. I have acted as trustee for my client's trust assets, and would be happy to volunteer to be the trustee for the purpose of holding Toys-R-Us' $25,000 bond for the benefit of this Chinese American first born baby.



The news article in World Journal is in Chinese only. No English version is available. There are various reputable translation agencies available in Tri-State area. A certified translation of this article should not take more than just a few hours. (You might want to use TransPerfect.) If Toys-R-Us is unable or unwilling to pay for the cost of such translation, I will be happy to talk to my firm and ask my firm whether I can handle this on a pro bono basis, for your benefit.



Sincerely,

Albert

. . . . . . . . a romantic realist,

aspiring to be a valiant seeker of Truth, Liberty and Justice.





----- Original Message -----

From: Tennenberg, Joel

To: 'albertwang221@hotmail.com'

Sent: Thursday, January 04, 2007 2:19 PM

Subject: Babies "R" Us/1st Baby of the Year

Albert,

As requested, the official sweepstakes rules are attached below.

Do you know whether an English version of the World Journal article is

available? If so, I would appreciate it if you could send that to me.

Thanks.

Joel

Joel S. Tennenberg

Litigation & Regulatory Counsel

Toys "R" Us, Inc.

One Geoffrey Way

Wayne, New Jersey 07470

(973) 617-5741 (tel)

(973) 617-4043 (fax)

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The parents didn't enter the sweepstakes nor did they ask for the scholarship money in any way. The hospital applied on their behalf without telling them.

The Toys-R-US sweepstakes simply called for giving $25,000 for the first baby born in the United States. The parents were told by somebody (don't know who) that their baby won. Toys-R-US screwed up and shouldn't have said anything about winners until the company checked out the eligibility of the parents. Toys-R-US did the right thing by giving all 3 babies $25,000 each in scholarship money. It's a good cause regardless of the legal status of the parents. Babies born on American soil are automatically citizens. That is not a rule, it is the law.

Toys-R-US need to clarify rules and procedures and hospitals need to revisit their own procedures if they continue to apply on behalf of parents. Throughout this whole thing, the parents are just enjoying the birth of their new daughter. Their immigration status is still unclear. For all we know, they might have green cards or work visas making them legal residents but not citizens.

With this news I guess we found the gas smell in New York. A lot of BS

Ha Ha, Medger E. got P'wnd!

A few of you need to understand for WHOM the 14th Amendment was written. All those who were slaves and under the jurisdiction of the US are ... gone.

No need to apologize, Bull. If I read one of your posts, I have read them all.

You are just so self-righteous and so assured of your correctness. Your shit doesn't smell.

You are scary.

Take a tranquilizer.

Apologies for the multiple posts.

Medgar (#52),

No degree in semiotics here; just a small-town sheriff with an English degree that gave me a sharp eye to what I read.

Your examples ("I don't think the tax laws. . .) create a sophomoric argument. Every law seems impartial on its face -- but how they are applied can represent abuse or exploitation against a class of individuals. White legislators insisted that they wrote Jim Crow laws only to keep peace between the races, by providing "separate but equal" facilities -- it took the more enlightened to rule that the only reason you separate is to forever keep it all unequal.

How, Medgar, did you earn your citizenship? How was your method of earning it distinct from baby Yuki's? By implying that there is a difference -- that your parents were "legal" when you were born but hers are "illegal" -- you're implying a caste-like power relationship with baby Yuki that has no moral basis, only a discriminatory one. It's a difference based on economics, politics and circumstance, but not on justice.

This is who gives not just liberals but all people a bad name: readers and writers ignorant -- maybe willfully so -- of political, social or historical continuity, believing one situation or relationship unique and unconnected to others. The same people spittling the words "anchor babies" and fretting over the Hispanicization of New Orleans would have been laughing at Sambo editorial cartoons and cheering me on as I stick-beat back those marchers back in the day, spectators with the same entitling sense of thinking they're superior because they have the law behind them.

So yeah, some rules should be broken -- in places like my beloved Birmingham, and Selma, Boston or New York City, that's exactly what got those rules ultimately changed.

BTW, #51: What exactly do you think keeps our hollow economy afloat except Chinamen buying billions of our bonds every goddamn day?

Medgar (#52),

No degree in semiotics here; just a small-town sheriff with an English degree that gave me a sharp eye to what I read.

Your examples ("I don't think the tax laws. . .) create a sophomoric argument. Every law seems impartial on its face -- but how they are applied can represent abuse or exploitation against a class of individuals. White legislators insisted that they wrote Jim Crow laws only to keep peace between the races, by providing "separate but equal" facilities -- it took the more enlightened to rule that the only reason you separate is to forever keep it all unequal.

How, Medgar, did you earn your citizenship? How was your method of earning it distinct from baby Yuki's? By implying that there is a difference -- that your parents were "legal" when you were born but hers are "illegal" -- you're implying a caste-like power relationship with baby Yuki that has no moral basis, only a discriminatory one. It's a difference based on economics, politics and circumstance, but not on justice.

This is who gives not just liberals but all people a bad name: readers and writers ignorant -- maybe willfully so -- of political, social or historical continuity, believing one situation or relationship unique and unconnected to others. The same people spittling the words "anchor babies" and fretting over the Hispanicization of New Orleans would have been laughing at Sambo editorial cartoons and cheering me on as I stick-beat back those marchers back in the day, spectators with the same entitling sense of thinking they're superior because they have the law behind them.

So yeah, some rules should be broken -- in places like my beloved Birmingham, and Selma, Boston or New York City, that's exactly what got those rules ultimately changed.

BTW, #51: What exactly do you think keeps our hollow economy afloat except Chinamen buying billions of our bonds every goddamn day?

Medgar (#52),

No degree in semiotics here; just a small-town sheriff with an English degree that gave me a sharp eye to what I read.

Your examples ("I don't think the tax laws. . .) create a sophomoric argument. Every law seems impartial on its face -- but how they are applied can represent abuse or exploitation against a class of individuals. White legislators insisted that they wrote Jim Crow laws only to keep peace between the races, by providing "separate but equal" facilities -- it took the more enlightened to rule that the only reason you separate is to forever keep it all unequal.

How, Medgar, did you earn your citizenship? How was your method of earning it distinct from baby Yuki's? By implying that there is a difference -- that your parents were "legal" when you were born but hers are "illegal" -- you're implying a caste-like power relationship with baby Yuki that has no moral basis, only a discriminatory one. It's a difference based on economics, politics and circumstance, but not on justice.

This is who gives not just liberals but all people a bad name: readers and writers ignorant -- maybe willfully so -- of political, social or historical continuity, believing one situation or relationship unique and unconnected to others. The same people spittling the words "anchor babies" and fretting over the Hispanicization of New Orleans would have been laughing at Sambo editorial cartoons and cheering me on as I stick-beat back those marchers back in the day, spectators with the same entitling sense of thinking they're superior because they have the law behind them.

So yeah, some rules should be broken -- in places like my beloved Birmingham, and Selma, Boston or New York City, that's exactly what got those rules ultimately changed.

BTW, #51: What exactly do you think keeps our hollow economy afloat except Chinamen buying billions of our bonds every goddamn day?

Medgar (#52),

No degree in semiotics here; just a small-town sheriff with an English degree that gave me a sharp eye to what I read.

Your examples ("I don't think the tax laws. . .) create a sophomoric argument. Every law seems impartial on its face -- but how they are applied can represent abuse or exploitation against a class of individuals. White legislators insisted that they wrote Jim Crow laws only to keep peace between the races, by providing "separate but equal" facilities -- it took the more enlightened to rule that the only reason you separate is to forever keep it all unequal.

How, Medgar, did you earn your citizenship? How was your method of earning it distinct from baby Yuki's? By implying that there is a difference -- that your parents were "legal" when you were born but hers are "illegal" -- you're implying a caste-like power relationship with baby Yuki that has no moral basis, only a discriminatory one. It's a difference based on economics, politics and circumstance, but not on justice.

This is who gives not just liberals but all people a bad name: readers and writers ignorant -- maybe willfully so -- of political, social or historical continuity, believing one situation or relationship unique and unconnected to others. The same people spittling the words "anchor babies" and fretting over the Hispanicization of New Orleans would have been laughing at Sambo editorial cartoons and cheering me on as I stick-beat back those marchers back in the day, spectators with the same entitling sense of thinking they're superior because they have the law behind them.

So yeah, some rules should be broken -- in places like my beloved Birmingham, and Selma, Boston or New York City, that's exactly what got those rules ultimately changed.

BTW, #51: What exactly do you think keeps our hollow economy afloat except Chinamen buying billions of our bonds every goddamn day?

#48

"We need to follow the rules" is code in any situation of power against identity.

And you are an expert in semiotics to know what the codes are that words and phrases represent?

Or are you just another knee-jerk politically correctoid, spouting off nonsensical platitudes?

I don't think the tax laws are fair, I don't have to obey them, right?

I don't think the banking laws are fair, I don't have to obey them, right?

I don't think the immigration laws are fair, I don't have to obey them, right?

I don't think the murder laws are fair, I don't have to obey them, right?

It is politically correctoids like you that give liberals like us a bad name.

If you don't lke the rules, change them or shut up!

Savings bonds for illegal chinamen??? They need to get back on their Golden Ventures and go home.

These illegal chinamen need to get back on their Golden Ventures and go home.

Exactly.

"We need to follow the rules" is code in any situation of power against identity. Those who know what they're saying smirk when they insist "rules" be followed to exclude one over the other because they know what time it is; those who are just parroting what they see or read -- including those who innately believe in "playing fair" -- are just semi-literate cattle.

Southern segregationists loved to "follow the rules," to the smallest letter. The rules allowed them to set up all that redundant infrastructure -- you know, like bathrooms and water fountains and lunch counters.

I'm going after that grandmother with a fire hose.

I think its great the newborn got the bond. Now lets charge the newborn for the cost of the birth.

Immigrants getting anything disgust me! sick! the worst are those damn irish!

I can't believe that this is even a issue on gothamist. In the big scheme of things it's like finding a lollipop on the floor and 40+ posts. Geez

Did you call or write that letter yet?

Do you seriously believe that you can get tax-free $25,000 in savings bonds?

No. It is taxable income that must be reported to IRS. Similarly, if you receive money for your IRA you must report it. It is pre-tax gift even if it ends up in after-tax place.

Toys R Us cannot just hand out free money. They must report the transaction to IRS so IRS knows about this. The SSN of the mother is certainly fake so it is identity theft.

Immigration does not care but IRS cares.

ok..here are the IRS instructions:

(1 year in jail and deportation sounds about right.)

How Do You Report Suspected Tax Fraud Activity?

If you suspect or know of an individual or company that is not complying with the tax laws, you may report this activity by completing Form 3949-A. You may fill out Form 3949-A online, print it and mail it to:

Internal Revenue Service

Fresno, CA 93888

If you do not wish to use Form 3949-A, you may send a letter to the address above. Please include the following information, if available:

*

Name and address of the person you are reporting

*

The taxpayer identification number (social security number for an individual or employer identification number for a business)

*

A brief description of the alleged violation, including how you became aware of or obtained the information

*

The years involved

*

The estimated dollar amount of any unreported income

*

Your name, address and daytime telephone number

Although you are not required to identify yourself, it is helpful to do so. Your identity can be kept confidential. You may also be entitled to a reward.

Frequently Asked Questions - 1.13 IRS Procedures: Reporting Fraud

It's a savings bond for college, not prize money like Richard Hatch.

You can remind all you want till you're blue in the face.

waiting for the IRS investigation..Luckily, IRS is usually not willing to look the other way.

IRS caught Survivor winner Richard Hatch and he was sentenced to 4 years in jail. This case is now pretty well known (and I will certainly send IRS a reminder) so they won't get away with this.

I'm sure they think they can keep the $25k. Wrong!!

Toys "R" Us' original decision was the correct one. It would have been a good example and I have no doubt would be applauded by the overwhelming majority of the American people. Instead, they caved in to political correctness and done a disservice to our country.

Yes, literally, it may mean a 'ghost man' under one reading, but, it connotes an evil ghost, what Europeans refer to as a devil. A foreign devil. It is perjorative and used in a racist connotaion. After all, the "N" word is just a corruption of the word for 'black'.

It is not what the word actually means, it is the intent of the user. And the intent of 'gwai lo' is perjorative.

In Hong Kong, Europeans now refer to themselves, self-depracatingly, as 'gwai lo', just as some African-Americans refer to themselves by the 'N" word.

Just checked Wikipedia:

"To refer to a white foreigner: bakgwei (白鬼, jyutping: baak6 gwai2, literally: "white ghost")

To refer to a black foreigner: hakgwei (黑鬼, jyutping: haak1 gwai2, literally: "black ghost")

These terms, especially hakgwei definitely carry a pejorative tone."

WTF? I'm guessing the parents couldn't read the rules of the contest, which is why they didn't know that it wasn't for illegals.

This is ridiculous. How about we give more handouts to people who don't respect our country's rules? That's a good way to foster a law-abiding mentality in our erupting population.

I personally don't like it when any othe minority moves in on the black man's ability to cry racism and use the white man's guilt to their advantage. Step off Yo!

(Sigh)

"foreign white devil", actually Gweilo literally means "ghost man". Bakgwei works too.

OK, #31,

then explain to the world what it does mean if it is not the racist and perjorative term that Chinese use to refer to Caucasians?

We're waiting...

Ain't that the truth, amen brotha.

toys r us is as corrupt and racist as disney.

#29, You have a lot to learn.

It does not mean any of what you wrote.

foreign white devil,

you're a lovely one. thank you very much.

Oh you don't refer anything, you just lynch as recent as 50 years ago.

"rat-fink"? quite lovely.

To #25

Don't act dumb. If you are Chinese, you know damn well what Gwai Lo means. Typical obfuscation and blame-shifting.

And for those who dont't, it means "Foreign White Devils" or "White Barbarian Devils". We have the 'N' word in English and it is anathema to use. But the Chinese community regularly refer to us as 'gwai lo' or 'lo fan' without any guilt or remorse.

It is therefore much worse than "Chink", which is just a contraction of a proper name.

And #25, tell me an ethnic group in USA that doesn't have a perjorative title?

At least we don't refer to other groups as 'barbarians' and 'devils'.

FYI: Chinatown covers three community boards, you rat-fink. Go ahead. Make my day.

At least you have the honesty not to deny that Asians are among the most racist group in the world.

Thanks SD... I guess it takes someone who knows me to state the obvious.

It's annoying the parents feel so entitled. You're not from this country. You came here illegally. The contest was for children whose mothers were legal residents. Stop feeling like you are owed something. Ugh.

1st: Vinny is NOT xenophobic. He just believes on playing by the rules.

2nd: Toy 'R' Us did this for ONE reason only; to stop any negative publicity. If they want to give three innocent little babies $25,000 each, good for them. Other than the negative publicity, they had nothing to lose.

3rd: I'm just terribly Shocked, Shocked I say! After 24 comments there isn't a SINGLE John Liu basher here. They must all be enjoying this warm day...

Yay again for Yuki!

all you people are jealous.

what's gwai low? the more you talk the more you're outed. I just forwarded your IP to CB2.

Toys R' Us did the right thing. It's racists who are bitching.

Ask what does the term "chink" mean?

Parents must file a tax return and pay taxes with real SSNs. Otherwise, it is a tax fraud. The savings bonds are in the name of the mother.

About 15% of the $25k belongs to tax-payers.

Any american citizen trying to commit tax fraud and indetity theft would spent years in jail. IRS takes care of that. That reality TV show start went to jail for not reporting his reality TV winnings. So should these illegals.

what kind of chinese parent names their kid Yuki? No real chinese person would give their kid a japanese name! The Japanese raped their asses back in wwII and a jap would get their head blown off back on the mainland. These people are probably philippino and not chinese.

I just heard that little Yuki's parents now plan to sue the United Negro College Fund because the Fund is not giving Yuki a chance for a scholarship.

boo. rules are rules...and illegals are illegals.

They did the right thing. Good for them for making the right decision.

Check out [#9]: anomalous

That's right, Anomalous, start name-calling ("narrow-minded, xenophobic") anyone who has a differing opinion than you. It is folks like you who give PC a bad name.

If you cannot beat your opponent's logic, just call them names! Throw enough mud and some of it sticks, right? You can't beat 'em, smear 'em!

Fact is: the rules were in place before the contest. Namely, parents had to be legal. Parents weren't legal. Too bad for baby. This is not an entitlement program. It is private money. Who is anyone to dictate to someone what to do with their own money, expecially when the rules are set beforehand.

Toys R Us buckled under to name-calling PCers, since they didn't want bad publicity for their new stores in China. It is better to pay the $25,000 ransom to the PC police here than to lose millions in China.

I am on the Chinatown community board and the Chinese-Americans are always crying racism and persecution when there is none. They still think it is 1922.

It is getting really tired.

And before you start calling me a racist, please ask a Chinese friend what 'gwai lo' and 'lo fan' mean? Ever see a Chinese person blush?

Indeed, Asians are some of the most discrimanatory and racist people on the planet, yet paradoxically the first to claim they are being discriminated against.

How do you say "Go figure" in Mandarin?

Yay Yay for Yuki!

f-in chinks! deport 'em...

yes, Vinny, I would have the same opinion if Toys R Us had stuck to their guns. In my opinion, and theirs, it would have been stupid of them do so because of all the bad publicity. Still, it's their money and they can do with it what they choose.

Hey Anomalous, would you have had the same opinion if Toys R Us had stuck to their guns?

Something tells me your pseudonym-using ass would be all in a bunch so don't lecture me.

Toys R Us can do whatever they want with their money, including award someone inelligible for the prize.

Doesn't make it right, now, does it?

Toys R Us just got owned. Screw the rules they set up for their own privately-funded contest; here are the new rules: seek out the publicity efforts of well-publicized brand, find loopholes you can exploit, notify reactive activist group, look really sad in the press photos, collect money, make tv appearance to rub it in for the politicians now fearful of confronting you, collect again, have bio ghostwritten, collect again, sell film rights, collect again. Have second baby, lather rinse repeat.

If this were the government giving out prizes I might be upset. Instead it is a corporation with a feel-good public relations contest. Why anyone would be care that Toys R Us decided to be generous instead of stingy and is beyond me.

Instead of one winner, there are now three winners. In the final analysis there were no rules broken. The winner still gets a savings bond as do the two other babies. I believe the hospitals that participated also received money from Toys R Us.

Yay again for Yuki!

And yet, anomolous, the contest had a clear rules. What's your explanation for why the rules should be broken? How does following the rules make one xenophobic? When you travel abroad do you expect the rules to be changed just for you? The US has the most liberal immigration rules and yet somehow we're the bad guys.

Yay for Yuki!

Vinny and kathy get off your narrow-minded, xenophobic horses! Jeez, Toys R Us can do what they want with their money. If they want to give their money to all three babies after the fact that is their right. Good for Toys to come to their senses and good for little Yuki. The money goes to the baby not the parents. I hope the savings bond allows Yuki to go to college and become a doctor!

What p.c. horsedung! Agree that this was open to LEGAL residents of the United States, so parents were not eligible. Moreover, if Toys R Imported feels this great need to be this media conscious, they should have given $250K to the hospital for the medical bills these illegals will no doubt be costing the American taxpayer, cuz I bet not one of them have health insurance. Freakin' freeloaders!

The contest was open to parents who were legal citizens.

Period.

This woman wasn't.

Period.

Doesn't matter that the kid is a US citizen.

Period.

Anyone who thinks this is right just got served.

I believe that the scholarship is given to the child, not the parents, so since the baby is an American citizen who will have a SSN, it probably isn't tax fraud. And it's in the form of a savings bond, anyway.

I want $250,000! :(

This is a felony (tax evasion & tax fraud). IRS requires that recipients have valid SSNs. They cannot have valid SSNs so they are using fake SSNs belonging to someone else (identity theft is also a felony).

Toys r us also is committing a tax fraud.

The Chinese Internet Mafia strikes again. See? they bully people into giving them free stuff.

Totally agree. Then again, who knows? It could've been just a little thing that the media spins out of hand to make it controversial.

Whatever the case may be, the money goes to the kid anyway, not as if they're presenting them with a check or cold hard cash for the parents to spend.

good for toys r us! it was a lame rule since any baby born on american soil is automatically american.