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Ward for 'maternity tourists' shut down in Southern Calif.
Friday, March 25, 2011
SAN GABRIEL, Calif. -- Authorities shut down a makeshift maternity clinic crammed with 10 newborns and a dozen Chinese women who paid as much as $35,000 to travel to Southern California to give birth to children who would automatically be U.S. citizens, a newspaper reported Thursday.
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