3 Arrested in Crackdown on Multimillion-Dollar ‘Birth Tourism’ Businesses
1st February 2019
Three people who operated multimillion-dollar birth-tourism businesses in Southern California were arrested Thursday in the biggest federal criminal probe ever to target the thriving industry, in which pregnant women come to the United States to give birth so their children will become American citizens.
The businesses coached their clients to deceive United States immigration officials and pay indigent rates at hospitals to deliver their babies, even though many of the clients were wealthy, investigators said. Some Chinese couples were charged as much as $100,000 for a birth-tourism package that included housing, nannies and shopping excursions to Gucci.
Actually, I don’t have a problem with the children of rich Chinese tourists becoming automatic American citizens. My problem is with the children of poor Mexican criminals becoming automatic American citizens.