Dongyuan Li is sentenced to 10 months prison term for helping Chinese women come to the U.S. to have American babies
A Chinese national who conducted a Southern California occupation that helped pregnant women in China lie to immigration officials so they could travel to the United States to give birth was sentenced to 10 months in prison Monday for the unchecked "birth tourism" enterprise.
Although, it is not illegal for a foreign national to come to the U.S. to give birth, but it is illegal to lie on a visa application about the aim of one’s visit.
Federal prosecutors opposed the sentence and said they believed Li should face up to 15 years in prison to warn others from helping women lie on visa applications and hide pregnancies in these so-called birth tourism schemes.
Federal authorities said LI's company helped more than 500 Chinese women travel to the United States to deliver American babies.
Authorities said the company trained the women to lie on their visa applications and to conceal their pregnancies when passing through customs in U.S. airports.
There are unconfirmed reports of other agencies operating in Rancho Cucamonga and Rowland Heights. The operators of another company, “USA Happy Baby Inc.” in San Bernardino is freed on bonds of $250,000 and await trial.
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