A Suicidal Nanny, an Underground Industry and 3 Babies Stabbed[birth tourism]

The New York Times ^ | 10 Oct 2018 | Liz Robbins and Christina Goldbaum

[Theoria]

An attack at a Queens maternity center shined a light on “birth tourism,” private, unregulated nurseries that cater to both Chinese tourists and New Yorkers.

Dark circles formed like warning signs beneath Yu Fen Wang’s eyes as she worked 12-hour graveyard shifts in a Queens maternity center that operated on the margins of legality. Her family said she had grown gaunt, could not sleep and told her husband she no longer wanted to live.

Her employers, however, said they needed her to work. And her family needed the money. She earned less than $100 a day, they said, working in a private house that had been converted into a combined nursery and hotel for newborn babies and their mothers.

An open secret in the Flushing community, the center was part of an underground industry catering to a demanding clientele: local mothers resting after childbirth and Chinese visitors coming to have their babies in the United States, a practice known as “birth tourism.”

[Pearls Before Swine]

Fix the birthright citizenship mis-interpretation of the 14th Amendment and this goes away.

[posterchild]

Anyone know how many ‘citizens’ growing up overseas we now have through birth tourism?

[posterchild]

Although neighbors of Mei Xin Care filed complaints that it was operating as a hotel, city buildings inspectors were denied access three times, which automatically closes the complaint.

City Inspector: Knock knock - "Anything illegal going on in there?"
Resident: "Go away", "Go away", "Go away"
City Inspector: "OK"

[texas booster]

$100 per day, on a 12 hour per shift?

What is the minimum wage in NYC$ $7.50 per hour?

Looks like multiple violations of law.

[Theoria]

Sounds about right.

[logi_cal869]

Fix the birthright citizenship mis-interpretation of the 14th Amendment and this goes away.

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Yeah, like that’ll ever happen. Stats from the other day demonstrate the US is spending more on illegal children than on the wall.

To a purpose.

[Lazamataz]

Dark circles formed like warning signs beneath Yu Fen Wang’s eyes

They like to claim that the EEWWWWW York Times is written by superior authors.

Then they produce this hackneyed, trite crap.