Federal authorities said the 'birth tourism' company helped more than 500 Chinese women travel to the United States to have their babies.
A Chinese woman was sentenced on Monday to 10 months in prison for running a business that helped pregnant women in China lie on visa forms and to immigration authorities so they could travel to Southern California to give birth to children who would automatically have U.S. citizenship., who wiped away tears with her hand several times during the hearing.
Federal authorities said the company helped more than 500 Chinese women travel to the United States to deliver American babies, and that Li used a cluster of apartments in Irvine to receive them. In a letter to the court, Li, a mother of four, said she had taken English and music lessons and read books and exercised daily while in custody.
Her attorney, Thomas O’Brien, told reporters the sentence was fair as prosecutors only documented seven cases where travelers lied to engage in birth tourism. He said others stated on visa forms they were traveling for tourism or medical reasons.
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