A husband and wife, both Chinese citizens, came to Southern California as tourists and abandoned their newborn baby in a San Diego hospital intensive care unit (ICU), the Chinese language newspaper World Journal reported on Feb. 2. The couple then immediately returned to China.
According to U.S. law, any baby born on U.S. soil is automatically an American citizen. Some people will take advantage of this law, which has created a phenomenon called “birth tourism.” The children born under these circumstances are have been dubbed “anchor babies.”
