Federal agents raided 37 locations, including three businesses, in Southern California on Tuesday morning, for running “birth tourism” companies.
Now there’s nothing wrong with wanting to emigrate to the US, or with babies born in the US getting American citizenship.
But lets be clear, these women aren’t Fievel Mousekewitz, just trying to find freedom and achieve the American dream. They’re already rich, mostly the wives of corrupt officials planning an escape route out of China 21 years down the road.
Unfortunately, their money is too dirty to just buy citizenship through America’s EB5 investment program, and they don’t want to slog through America’s immigration process with the proletariat.
Instead, the women pay $60,000 to a “birth tourism” outfit, which coaches them on sneaking their baby bump past immigration authorities, then hides mom in a luxurious accommodation until the baby is born in a hospital. They even supply Chinese speaking nannies to swaddle the newborns.
The baby gets an American birth certificate and passport, then everyone flies back to China.
The US has a long history of discrimination against Chinese immigrants, but Tuesday’s raids aren’t more of that. If these wealthy Chinese families can show they earned their money legally, they should have no problems making it through the regular immigration channels.
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