美國官員嚴厲打擊入境生育旅遊
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生育旅遊在美國是不違法的，但官方機構現在正在追蹤打擊代理商和促進者。
近年來，美國的生育旅遊已經非常普及。去美國生產的孕婦主要來自中國，中國台灣，沙烏地阿拉伯，韓國，奈及利亞，土耳其，俄羅斯，巴西和墨西哥。
在美國，目前還沒有禁止外國人生育的法律。非法行為是是否他們通過歪曲訪問目的，或獲得適當簽證從事移民欺詐行為，事實上，生育旅遊者通常向移民官員撒謊旅行的原因。
擁有美國公民的孩子最大的優點之一是一旦孩子年滿21歲，可以幫助非美國籍父母獲得綠卡。
根據2018年國土安全部向佛羅里達州法院提交的文件，美國每年有40000名兒童是由僅僅持有旅行簽證的婦女所生。
這些婦女其中一些是合法的，有些是非法的，國土安全部沒有追捕她們。相反，其目標是代理商、網站和孕婦旅館。加利福尼亞州、佛羅里達州和紐約州是受歡迎的目的地。
2018年，美國移民和海關執法局官員突擊搜查了位於洛杉磯，橙縣和聖貝納迪諾縣的20個生育酒店，尋找可疑的生育旅遊業務，其中據稱中國公民支付了40000至80000美元給代理商，以得到關於獲得簽證，逃避機場盤查，甚至掩蓋懷孕的建議。
由於擔心稅務欺詐、合同違約、移民欺詐（幫助生育遊客以欺騙手段獲得簽證）和分區違規，該機構將重點放在生育旅遊業。
美國海關和邊境保護局一直在收緊安全措施，尤其是對那些試圖在機場入境的中國孕婦，包括洛杉磯國際機場。
Officials are cracking down on inbound US birth tourism
Birth tourism is not illegal in the USA, but official bodies are now going after agents and facilitators.
In recent years birth tourism to the USA has become very popular. Pregnant women come from China, Taiwan, Saudi Arabia, South Korea, Nigeria, Turkey, Russia, Brazil, and Mexico go to the USA to give birth.
There is currently no law that prohibits foreign nationals from giving birth while in the USA. The illegality is if they commit immigration fraud by misrepresenting the purpose of their visits to gain entry or obtain an appropriate visa, and in reality, birth tourists usually lie to immigration officials about their reasons for travel.
One of the biggest advantages of having a US citizen child is that once that child reaches the age of 21, he or she could be a sponsor of Green Cards for the non-US parents.
According to papers filed in 2018 in Florida courts by the Department of Homeland Security, 40,000 children every year are born to women who are only in the US on a travel visa.
The Department of Homeland Security is not going after the women, some of whom are legal and some illegal. Instead it is targeting the agents, websites and maternity hotels. California, Florida and New York are popular destinations.
In 2018, US Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency officials raided 20 birth hotel locations in Los Angeles, Orange County and San Bernardino County looking for suspected birth tourism operations, in which Chinese nationals allegedly paid agents between $40,000 and $80,000 to advise them on obtaining visas, flying through the least suspicious airports and even disguising their pregnancies.
The agency is focusing on the birth tourism industry due to concerns about tax fraud, contractual breaches, immigration fraud (helping birth tourists get visas under false pretences), and zoning violations.
US Customs and Border Protection Agency CBP has been tightening security particularly for pregnant Chinese women who are trying to enter the country at airports, including Los Angeles International Airport.
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