Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton is suing a company overseeing four Houston-area care clinics, accusing them of engaging in birth tourism and encouraging Chinese women to come to Texas to give birth.
The lawsuit against De’Ai Postpartum Care Center alleges its employees have engaged in the practice for more than 20 years and have bragged about facilitating the births of more than 1,000 babies to mothers who enter the country to have their children. The newborns would automatically be citizens of the United States under current law.
“Tourist visas cannot be issued for this purpose,” the lawsuit states. “This is an unlawful scheme that perpetuates fraud on the government and violates Texas law. And defendants know this.”…