One Less Anchor Baby - Thanks Mexico!
Chinese Woman Turned Back at U.S. Border Gives Birth in Mexico
REYNOSA, Mexico – A 9-months-pregnant Chinese woman traveled more than 15,000 kilometers (9,300 miles) so her baby could be born in the United States, but she was turned back at the border and wound up giving birth in Mexico.
The coordinator of the CAMEF children’s shelter in Reynosa, Eleuterio Valdez Villarreal, where the woman is awaiting the resolution of her immigration situation, said that she wanted her child to be a U.S. citizen.
Valdez said that Zhu Shuying was detained by Mexican immigration when she tried to make it across the swollen Rio Grande River to Texas.
He said that since none of the Mexican immigration officials could understand Chinese, Zhu, 20, was transferred to the immigration department offices, but during the early hours of July 13 she began to go into labor and was attended to in a clinic in Reynosa, located just across the border from McAllen, Texas.
Velez said that Zhu shows symptoms of hysteria, “she was very nervous, nobody understood her,â€