Birth Tourism Scheme

<p>Fugitive Chinese national Chao Chen was sentenced to 37 months in federal prison for his role in a <a href="https://www.courthousenews.com/woman-snared-in-birth-tourism-scheme-sentenced-to-time-served/"><strong>birth tourism</strong></a> scheme involving visa fraud that allowed women to come to the U.S. to give birth so their children would have U.S. birthright citizenship. </p>

SANTA ANA, Calif. — Fugitive Chinese national Chao Chen was sentenced to 37 months in federal prison for his role in a birth tourism scheme involving visa fraud that allowed women to come to the U.S. to give birth so their children would have U.S. birthright citizenship.

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