Are we there yet?

[Randy W]

The article doesn't say specifically that she's Taiwanese - in any event, she just barely made it!

 

Woman who delivered baby on L.A.-bound flight was 36 weeks pregnant, kept asking 'Are we in US air space yet?'

 

 

When the woman's water broke mid-flight and she started going into labor, she was advised by flight attendants to lie down and prepare for delivery. The woman, however, insisted she would deliver later, and kept asking, "Are we in US air space yet?"

 

UCLA physician Dr. Angelica Zen who assisted with the delivery, was trying to catch some sleep after a romantic vacation in Bali when the announcement came asking if there was a doctor or nurse on board.

 

. . .

 

The woman, surnamed Jian, has since been deported by US immigration authorities. Upon her arrival back in Taiwan, she was ambushed by the media. Covering her face with a jacket, she refused to answer their questions. She has been separated from her newborn child, now under the care of state authorities in Alaska.

 

She told Taiwanese aviation authorities that her daughter had been given US citizenship by the immigration department. Taiwanese officials did not confirm her claim, saying that they had not heard from their American counterparts.

 

 

 

[dnoblett]

Brings to a whole new level the term anchor baby and birth right.

[Randy W]

Brings to a whole new level the term anchor baby and birth right.

 

 

. . . that it includes air space.

[warpedbored]

The Press sensationalizes birth tourism to make it seem like a much bigger problem than it really is. in 2012 only 10000 Chinese women came to the US to give birth. Since then immigration has been sending many of them back. There are also a lot of misconceptions about so called anchor babies. They do not give a free pass to the parents to immigrate.

 

 

 

Limited benefits

It's important to note that having an "anchor baby" won't do much to help a Mexican mom become a U.S. citizen. Because

citizen children cannot sponsor their parents for citizenship until they turn 21 -- and because if the parents were ever illegal,

they would have to return home for 10 years before applying to come in -- having a baby to secure citizenship for its parents is

an extremely long-term, and uncertain, process.

However, having a citizen child can produce some short-term benefits, said Marc Rosenblum, a senior policy analyst for the Migration Policy Institute. Pregnant women and nursing mothers could be eligible for certain benefits under theWomen-Infants-Children (WIC) program, which provides food and nutrition vouchers, and their children could enroll in Medicaid, although the undocumented parents could not. Having a child can also help an undocumented parent qualify for relief from deportation, but only 4,000 unauthorized immigrants can receive such status per year, and the alien has to have been in the U.S. for at least 10 years. That means very long odds, Rosenblum said.

[newacct]

It's not clear why she was deported though. Perhaps likeliness to become a public charge because she doesn't have insurance?

[Randy W]

It's not clear why she was deported though. Perhaps likeliness to become a public charge because she doesn't have insurance?

 

 

Hopefully, they DON'T have the ability to review your financial circumstances at the POE - maybe she had LIED about her maternal condition?

 

But, yes - I assume whatever it was was between her and the goons at the POE - what happens at the POE STAYS at the POE.