How a US Crackdown Is Upending Plans for Chinese 'Birth Tourists' The recent news of would be mothers being turned away at US border checkpoints has sparked widespread anxiety among prospective parents from China, who have long used American citizenship as a means to secure better educational opportunities for their children.
This crackdown on "birth tourism" is the latest manifestation of a hardline immigration policy that threatens to upend carefully laid plans and exacerbate existing tensions between two global superpowers.
The phenomenon of Chinese women traveling to the US while pregnant has been around for years, with many seeking to take advantage of the American system's generous citizenship laws.