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posted by janrinok on Friday January 17 2020, @05:07PM   Printer-friendly
from the taking-the-piss dept.

WSJ runs this story (alternative MSN same text)

HONG KONG—Japanese citizen Midori Nishida was checking in to a flight in Hong Kong in November to visit her parents on Saipan, a U.S. island in the Pacific, when airline staff made an unusual demand. She had to take a pregnancy test if she wanted to board.

Ms. Nishida, 25 years old, was escorted to a public rest room and handed a strip to urinate on.

The test was part of the response of one airline, Hong Kong Express Airways, to immigration concerns in Saipan. The island has become a destination for women intending to give birth on U.S. territory, making their babies eligible for American citizenship. In 2018, more tourists than residents gave birth in the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, in which Saipan is the largest island.

Pregnant foreigners aren't barred from entering the U.S., or from giving birth in U.S. territory. But immigration authorities can turn away visitors if they are found to be lying about their purpose of travel, or if they come to the U.S. planning to have a medical procedure, such as giving birth, but can't prove they have the funds to pay for it.

Airlines are required to take back passengers who are denied entry—an incentive to ensure that those who board their flights are likely to be deemed admissible to the U.S.

One would think the birth tourism was reaching crisis levels in Saipan; but TFA has a chart showing 582 births by tourists in 2018.

Heck, looks like even Trump's businesses are happy to oblige if the price is right.


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  • (Score: -1, Disagree) by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 17 2020, @06:11PM (3 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 17 2020, @06:11PM (#944632)

    Trump is a civil rights violator, now it has been revealed Sanderrs violates the civil rights of women too:

    Anonymous sources allegedly told CNN Monday that Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders told Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren that a woman can’t beat President Donald Trump in November.

    CNN reports that four people confirmed Sanders’ statement to Warren, including two people Warren allegedly spoke with directly after the meeting and two others familiar with the conversation that took place at Warren’s Washington D.C. apartment in December 2018 before the two senators had officially entered the presidential contest.

    https://thefederalist.com/2020/01/13/anonymous-sources-claim-sanders-told-warren-a-woman-couldnt-win/ [thefederalist.com]

    Violated laws:

    42 U.S. Code § 2000a
    29 CFR § 1604.11
    Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 SEC. 701

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  • (Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 17 2020, @07:05PM (2 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 17 2020, @07:05PM (#944665)

    it's predicting what would happen, not barring her from doing anything, you idiot

    and besides, anonymous sources can claim whatever they want but he denies it

    • (Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 17 2020, @07:30PM (1 child)

      by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 17 2020, @07:30PM (#944681)

      It shall be an unlawful employment practice for an employment agency to fail or refuse to refer for employment, or otherwise to discriminate against, any individual because of his race, color, religion, sex, or national origin, or to classify or refer for employment any individual on the basis of his race, color, religion, sex, or national origin.

      As a US Senator, Warren is an employee of all US citizens, including Sanders. Sanders told here she can't win a place in the Whorehouse. He should have encouraged her ("refer for employment") to take the job. Instead he decided to violate her civil rights.

      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 17 2020, @08:21PM

        by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 17 2020, @08:21PM (#944699)

        Sanders is not in charge of who gets the job. the fact that he's competing for the same job didn't tip you off about that?

        I can say I can't fly after jumping off a cliff, it's not because somebody else is stopping me.