{"id":442571,"date":"2026-09-21T03:28:06","date_gmt":"2026-09-21T03:28:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/442571\/"},"modified":"2026-09-21T03:28:06","modified_gmt":"2026-09-21T03:28:06","slug":"attorney-general-ken-paxton-secures-legal-victory-to-shut-down-houston-area-birth-tourism-center-that-unlawfully-facilitated-over-1000-births-to-foreign-chinese-nationals-wtaw","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/442571\/","title":{"rendered":"Attorney General Ken Paxton Secures Legal Victory to Shut Down Houston-Area \u201cBirth Tourism\u201d Center That Unlawfully Facilitated Over 1,000 Births to Foreign Chinese Nationals &#8211; WTAW"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/KenPaxtonLogo.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"KenPaxtonLogo\"\/><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0in; margin-bottom: .0001pt; line-height: 140%;\">Attorney General Ken Paxton announced Friday that he secured a legal victory to shut down a Houston-area \u201cbirth tourism\u201d center. This major victory was secured following Attorney General Paxton\u2019s lawsuit against the business and its operators.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0in; margin-bottom: .0001pt; line-height: 140%;\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0in; margin-bottom: .0001pt; line-height: 140%;\">\u201cI will do everything in my power to stop foreign nationals from unlawfully exploiting our immigration system through the scam of \u2018birth tourism,\u2019\u201d said Attorney General Paxton. \u201cThis operation helped Chinese foreign nationals come to Texas to evade our laws. Now, we have shut it down.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0in; margin-bottom: .0001pt; line-height: 140%;\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0in; margin-bottom: .0001pt; line-height: 140%;\">In April 2026, Attorney General Paxton sued De\u2019Ai Postpartum Care Center. The Center operated a \u201cbirth tourism\u201d business that primarily marketed its services to Chinese nationals and claimed responsibility for \u201c1,000+ American-born babies.\u201d The operation spanned four Houston-area properties and provided clients with assistance navigating the immigration process. The Center also coached foreign nationals on how to evade immigration restrictions, including advising women to apply for visas \u201cbefore pregnancy\u201d to avoid detection.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0in; margin-bottom: .0001pt; line-height: 140%;\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0in; margin-bottom: .0001pt; line-height: 140%;\">Attorney General Paxton has now successfully shut down the operation. The Center will cease its operations and stop facilitating births, including stopping the practice of coaching foreign nationals on how to evade immigration laws to enter the United States for the purpose of giving birth.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Attorney General Ken Paxton announced Friday that he secured a legal victory to shut down a Houston-area \u201cbirth&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":442572,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[56,58,57],"class_list":["post-442571","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-houston","tag-houston","tag-houston-headlines","tag-houston-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/442571","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=442571"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/442571\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/442572"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=442571"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=442571"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=442571"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}