Arriving as Pregnant Tourists, Leaving With American Babies
By JENNIFER MEDINA
Published: March 28, 2011

SAN GABRIEL, Calif. — The building inspectors and police officers walked into the small row of connected town houses here knowing something was amiss. Neighbors had complained about noise and a lot of pregnant women coming and going. And when they went into a kitchen they saw a row of clear bassinets holding several infants, with a woman acting as a nurse hovering over them.

A diaper box outside houses in San Gabriel, Calif., where officials say Chinese women stayed to have their babies born as citizens.

For months, officials say, the house was home to “maternity tourists,â€