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LA County to crack down on 'maternity hotels' after spike in complaints
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Jan 29, 2013
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LA County to crack down on 'maternity hotels' after spike in complaints
Tucked away in Southern California neighborhoods, like Chino Hills, Rowland Heights and Hacienda Heights, are businesses known as maternity hotels. Women travel many miles, mostly from Asia, to reach these boarding houses where they can give birth to babies with automatic American citizenship.
(FILES) This file photo taken on July 30, 2011 shows four pregnant women relaxing in a coffee shop during a support group meeting at a shopping center in Shanghai. The world population will reach seven billion later this year, with increases in the number of people in Africa off-setting birth rate drops elsewhere, according to a new French study published on August 18, 2011. China tops the list with over 1.33 billion people, with another 1.17 billion in India. AFP PHOTO / FILES / Mark RALSTON (Photo credit should read MARK RALSTON/AFP/Getty Images)
This file photo taken on July 30, 2011 shows four pregnant women relaxing in a coffee shop during a support group meeting at a shopping center in Shanghai.
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Tucked away in Southern California neighborhoods, like Chino Hills, Rowland Heights and Hacienda Heights, are businesses known as maternity hotels. Women travel many miles, mostly from Asia, to reach these boarding houses where they can give birth to babies with automatic American citizenship.

Tucked away in Southern California neighborhoods, like Chino Hills, Rowland Heights and Hacienda Heights, are businesses known as maternity hotels. Women travel many miles, mostly from Asia, to reach these boarding houses where they can give birth to babies with automatic American citizenship.

Complaints about these maternity hotels are on the rise and today L.A. County Supervisor Don Knabe plans to do something about it.