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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: 5, Interesting) by ikanreed on Friday January 17 2020, @06:26PM (3 children)

    by ikanreed (3164) Subscriber Badge on Friday January 17 2020, @06:26PM (#944639) Journal

    Things I'm 100% certain of:
    1. You've never read a single goddamn immigration law in your life
    2. You're very good at making predictions
    3. You've never ever ever even once checked if a single prediction you've made turned out to be right.

    Your fucking policies already created hell. We're living in it, restriction after restriction after restriction, quota, fence followed by "virtual wall" followed by wall, having no rights within 100 miles of a border, concentration camps. None of it, not a single goddamn bit of it has done anything but create suffering. There's not a police state totalitarian enough for you psychos to actually be satisfied.

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  • (Score: 1, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 17 2020, @07:10PM (2 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 17 2020, @07:10PM (#944673)

    Those arent my policies. My policy would be open borders, minimal taxes, and government doesnt give out any free shit. Basically government is the biggest gang around, and all they do is put down other gangs.

    • (Score: 3, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 17 2020, @09:53PM (1 child)

      by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 17 2020, @09:53PM (#944749)

      In fairness, putting down other gangs is the single most important function of government. If that breaks down you wind up like Somalia, where every two-bit dictator-wannabe with some followers tries to be king of the trash heap. That never ends well for anyone.

      • (Score: 1) by khallow on Saturday January 18 2020, @01:21PM

        by khallow (3766) Subscriber Badge on Saturday January 18 2020, @01:21PM (#944951) Journal

        If that breaks down you wind up like Somalia, where every two-bit dictator-wannabe with some followers tries to be king of the trash heap. That never ends well for anyone.

        It ended better for Somalia than the government [wikipedia.org] did.