All told, the feds raided 20 locations in
Los Angeles, Orange and San Bernardino counties, targeting three competing birth tourism schemes, officials said.
The organizers who allegedly ran the Carlyle site, Chao Chen and Dong Li, used a website to drum up business, touting the benefits of a child with U.S. citizenship: 13 years of free education, low-cost college financial aid, less pollution, and a path for the entire family to emigrate when the child becomes an adult.