A Chinese national pleaded guilty yesterday to federal criminal charges for running an Orange County-based “birth tourism” business that catered to wealthy pregnant clients and Chinese government officials, charging them tens of thousands of dollars to help them give birth in the United States so their children would get U.S. citizenship.
Dongyuan Li (李冬媛), 41, of Irvine, pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to commit immigration fraud and one count of visa fraud. Li was one of 19 defendants named in a series of indictments unsealed earlier this year. She is the first of the charged operators of birth tourism businesses to plead guilty. The remaining defendants either are pending trial or are fugitives.
Li admitted in her plea agreement that, from 2013 until March 2015, she operated a birth tourism company in Irvine and in China called ‘You Win USA Vacation Services’ Corp. You Win would assist pregnant foreign nationals – typically from China – to travel to and remain in the United States to give birth so their children would receive birthright U.S. citizenship, according to the plea agreement.
According to a January 2019 federal grand jury indictment against Li, You Win advertised that it had served more than 500 Chinese birth tourism customers seeking U.S. birthright citizenship for their children. The indictment details that Li used 20 apartments in Irvine, charged each customer between $40,000 and $80,000, and she received $3 million in international wire transfers from China in two years.
Some You Win customers coached by the company made false statements on their visa applications and to U.S. immigration officials, Li’s plea agreement states. Li also admitted that the customers were advised on how to pass the U.S. Consulate interview in China, including by falsely stating that they were going to stay in the United States for only two weeks, when in reality, they planned to stay for up to three months to give birth.
Li further admitted that her customers bypassed U.S. immigration controls by booking two flights – the first from China to Hawaii and the second from Hawaii to Los Angeles International Airport – because they thought it would be easier to clear U.S. Customs through Hawaii. Li’s customers also were coached how to trick U.S. Customs at ports of entry by concealing their pregnancies, according to the plea agreement.
In October 2013, Li made a $30,965 rent payment for Irvine apartments used in her birth tourism operation, and in November 2013, she made a $30,321 rent payment for those apartments, the plea agreement states.
As part of her plea agreement, Li agreed to forfeit more than $850,000, a Murrieta residence worth more than $500,000, as well as several Mercedes-Benz vehicles.
United States District Judge James V. Selna scheduled a Dec. 16 sentencing hearing, at which time Li will face a statutory maximum sentence of 15 years in federal prison.
This case was investigated by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s Homeland Security Investigations and IRS Criminal Investigation. The Irvine Police Department provided substantial assistance.
This case is being prosecuted by Assistant United States Attorney Charles E. Pell of the Santa Ana Branch Office.
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The the birth right of Americans is not for sale . It is sold . The blame rests fully at the feet of the US Congress. It is, without a doubt, a full blown criminal organization. What else could it be ? They do not work for US.
Russians have been doing the same for quite a long time now, the hospitals in south Florida are busy with little Ruskie babies getting their citizenship. Don’t believe me, look it up NBC News did a story on it in January of 2018.
So ask yourself this question, what will happen down the road when all these communist birth tourism babies get old enough to vote? Do we send them a absentee ballot in every election?
This is a national security RED ALERT that the sheep watching Faux News never hear about, all they heard was the term “birth tourism”. They think that sounds just Okie Dokie…………
HIGH TREASON is afoot.
424-0 in favor of Israel actually.
Wait.
If CONgress is a full blown criminal organization, what does that make super-columnist Ron Paul?
Speech Commonly Attributed To Chief Seattle
Chief Seattle
In 1851 the Suquamish and other Indian tribes around Washington’s Puget Sound were faced with a proposed treaty which in part persuaded them to sell two million acres of land for $150,000. Chief Seattle of the Suquamish tribe was a very spiritual and articulate man. If he gave a speech on that occasion, it might well have sounded like this:
How can you buy or sell the sky, the warmth of the land? The idea is strange to us. If we do not own the freshness of the air and sparkle of the water, how can you buy them?
Every part of this earth is sacred to my people.
Every shining pine needle, every sandy shore, every mist in the dark woods, every clearing and humming insect is holy in the memory and experience of my people. The sap which courses through the trees carries the memories of the red man.
The white man’s dead forget the countryof their birth when they go to walk among the stars. Our dead never forget this beautiful earth, for it is the mother of the red man.
We are part of the earth and it is part of us.
The perfumed flowers are our sisters; the deer, the horse, the great eagle, these are our brothers.
The rocky crests, the juices in the meadows, the body heat of the pony, and man–all belong to the same family.
So, when the Great Chief in Washington sends word that he wishes to buy land, he asks much of us. The Great Chief sends word he will reserve us a place so that we can live comfortably to ourselves.
He will be our father and we will be his children. So we will consider your offer to buy our land.
But it will not be easy. For this land is sacred to us.
This shining water that moves in the streams and rivers is not just water but the blood of our ancestors.
If we sell you land, you must remember that it is sacred, and you must teach your children that it is sacred and that each ghostly reflection in the clear water of the lakes tells of events and memories in the life of my people.
The water’s murmur is the voice of my father’s father.
The rivers are our brothers, they quench our thirst. The rivers carry our canoes, and feed our children. If we sell you our land, you must remember, and teach your children, that the rivers are our brothers, and yours, and you must henceforth give the rivers the kindness you would give any brother.
We know that the white man does not understand our ways. One portion of land is the same to him as the next, for he is a stranger who comes in the night and takes from the land whatever he needs.
The earth is not his brother, but his enemy, and when he has conquered it, he moves on.
He leaves his father’s graves behind, and he does not care.
He kidnaps the earth from his children, and he does not care.
His father’s grave, and his children’s birthright, are forgotten. He treats his mother, the earth, and his brother, the sky, as things to be bought, plundered, sold like sheep or bright beads.
His appetite will devour the earth and leave behind only a desert.
I do not know. Our ways are different from your ways.
The sight of your cities pains the eyes of the red man. But perhaps it is because the red man is a savage and does not understand.
There is no quiet place in the white man’s cities. No place to hear the unfurling of leaves in spring, or the rustle of an insect’s wings.
But perhaps it isbecause I am a savage and do not understand.
The clatter onlyseems to insult the ears. And what is there to life if a man cannot hear the lonely cry of the whippoorwill or the arguments of the frogs around a pond at night? I am a red man and do not understand.
The Indian prefers the soft sound of the wind darting over the face of a pond, and the smell of the wind itself, cleaned by a midday rain, or scented with the pinion pine.
The air is precious to the red man, for all things share the same breath–the beast, the tree, the man, they all share the same breath.
The white man does not seem to notice the air he breathes.
Like a man dying for many days, he is numb to the stench.
But if we sell you our land, you must remember that the air is precious to us, that the air shares its spirit with all the life it supports. The wind that gave our grandfather his first breath also receives his last sigh.
And if we sell you our land, you must keep it apart and sacred, as a place where even the white man can go to taste the wind that is sweetened by the meadow’s flowers.
So we will consider your offer to buy our land. If we decide to accept, I will make one condition: The white man must treat the beasts of this land as his brothers.
I am a savage and I do not understand any other way.
I’ve seen a thousand rotting buffaloes on the prairie, left by the white man who shot them from a passing train.
I am a savage and I do not understand how the smoking iron horse can be more important than the buffalo that we kill only to stay alive.
What is man without the beasts? If all the beasts were gone, man would die from a great loneliness of spirit.
For whatever happens to the beasts, soon happens to man. All things are connected.
You must teach your children that the ground beneath their feet is the ashes of your grandfathers. So that they will respect the land, tell your children that the earth is rich with the lives of our kin.
Teach your children what we have taught our children, that the earth is our mother.
Whatever befalls the earth befalls the sons of the earth. If men spit upon the ground, they spit upon themselves.
This we know: The earth does not belong to man; man belongs to the earth. This we know.
All things are connected like the blood which unites one family. All things are connected.
Whatever befalls the earth befalls the sons of the earth.
Man did not weave the web of life: he is merely a strand in it.
Whatever he does to the web, he does to himself.
Even the white man, whose God walks and talks with him as friend to friend, cannot be exempt from the common destiny.
We may be brothers after all.
We shall see.
One thing we know, which the white man may one day discover, our God is the same God. You may think now that you own Him as you wish to own our land; but you cannot. He is the God of man, and His compassion is equal for the red man and the white.
This earth is precious to Him, and to harm the earth is to heap contempt on its Creator.
The whites too shall pass; perhaps sooner than all other tribes. Contaminate your bed, and you will one night suffocate in your own waste.
But in your perishing you will shine brightly, fired by the strength of God who brought you to this land and for some special purpose gave you dominion over this land and over the red man.
That destiny is a mystery to us, for we do not understand when the buffalo are all slaughtered, the wild horses are tamed, the secret corners of the forest heavy with scent of many men, and the view of the ripe hills blotted by talking wires.
Kind of reminds me of Dances with Wolves.
Another Hollywood piece of shit that portrays whites as ignorant invaders and Indians as morally superior and in tune with nature.
This is yet another reason why birthright citizenship must be permanently terminated and restricted only to children born to two U.S. citizens or one U.S. citizen and one legal immigrant (or two lawful permanent residents aka green card holders).
You gonna get the Attorney General Barr on the case?
There are no legal or political solutions.
The Chinese seem to seek citizenship of countries deemed to be safer as an insurance policy. An estimated 300,000 Canadians live in Hong Kong, many/most of them having temporarily immigrated to Vancouver when Hong Kong’s status was unsettled at the end of the previous century. If the transfer of the colony from the UK to China went poorly, they would’ve stayed in Canada; since it went smoothly–at least at first–they returned home, but always have the option of coming to Canada. If things go south there, we’ll have a new Chinese city somewhere around Vancouver. Bad for people who want a house there, but there may be no higher-quality immigrants than people from Hong Kong.
If this “birth tourism” scheme works in the same fashion, the “Americans” will stay in China until things start to fall apart, then they’ll rush to get to the USA, if possible. Irritating, but better than a swarm from south of the border, Africa, or the Middle East.
Saipan is one of the new places of choice for chinese to circumvent US Immigration laws … plus it’s a whole lot less expen$ive to get there than to the US Mainland.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-island-where-chinese-mothers-deliver-american-babies-1513852203
“Saipan has become known as the latest hot spot for birth tourism, a place where women can give birth to babies who will automatically acquire U.S. citizenship.
“The Northern Marianas, an island chain that includes Saipan, is the only U.S. soil that Chinese can visit without a visa, after a change in immigration policy in 2009 allowed Chinese and Russian tourists visa-free entry for up to 45 days.”
In my new Republic, this will not be possible because women will be leashed and curbed at all times.
No dick, no unaccompanied travel in barbarian areas (in public.)
In my new Republic.
If you ever have a yearning to visit China (or Asia for that matter), no need to leave the country. Just visit Flushing Queens NYC. Although I felt like a stranger in a strange land during a recent visit, it was overall a very pleasant experience.
http://www.aafny.org/cic/briefs/queens.pdf