Civil Litigation,
Immigration,
Criminal
Feb. 5, 2019
First birth tourism indictments fuel birthright citizenship debate
The government brought the first U.S .criminal charges against operators and customers in the multi-million dollar birth tourism business.
Debate over birthright citizenship was reignited recently when federal prosecutors unsealed indictments of 19 people charged with crimes relating to illicit “birth tourism” schemes whereby hundreds of pregnant Chinese women allegedly paid self-styled travel agents to bring them to the U.S. illegally to give birth to children on American soil.
The 17 cases, investigated by U.S. Immigration and Custom Enforcement and Homeland Security...
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