Should local governments crack down on maternity hotels in residential neighborhoods?
L.A. Times
2013/01/28 17:00:00
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Los Angeles County Supervisor Don Knabe will ask for stricter regulations of maternity hotels that have prompted safety concerns and a surge in neighborhood complaints, his office said Tuesday.
The supervisor will make the request at Tuesday's Board of Supervisors meeting, seeking support to create an ordinance that would regulate the homes -- where women from Asia come to give birth in the U.S. -- and create multi-agency inspection teams, his office said in a statement. He also will ask for funding to provide inspectors with additional staff, including translators who speak Mandarin and Cantonese.
"These maternity hotels have grown beyond the scope of a zoning issue," Knabe said in a statement. "The conditions inside some of these houses are putting the lives of the mothers and babies at risk, and we must do what we can to protect them and stop this illegal activity." The announcement cited a Jan. 14 report by the county Planning Department that showed 60 complaints had been filed about maternity homes in the last month, up from just 15 over the previous five years.
The supervisor will make the request at Tuesday's Board of Supervisors meeting, seeking support to create an ordinance that would regulate the homes -- where women from Asia come to give birth in the U.S. -- and create multi-agency inspection teams, his office said in a statement. He also will ask for funding to provide inspectors with additional staff, including translators who speak Mandarin and Cantonese.
"These maternity hotels have grown beyond the scope of a zoning issue," Knabe said in a statement. "The conditions inside some of these houses are putting the lives of the mothers and babies at risk, and we must do what we can to protect them and stop this illegal activity." The announcement cited a Jan. 14 report by the county Planning Department that showed 60 complaints had been filed about maternity homes in the last month, up from just 15 over the previous five years.
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An industry that supports criminal behavior is ludicrous.
Babies aren't the point of this article, filthy, illegal "hotels" are.
Nice try at a red herring since my first comment to you was debunking your idiotic question.
I read a couple of years ago that women who could afford it were staying in suites in high-class hotels in NYC until they gave birth.
Get back to me when you learn what impertinent means.
1. Exceeding the limits of propriety or good manners; improperly forward or bold: impertinent of a child to lecture a grownup.
2. Not pertinent; irrelevant.
Do you see the second meaning, i.e.irrelevant?
Yours fell into the "so painfully obvious and irrelevant that only a moron would be interested" category. Please try to do better.
By the way, if you feel the need to criticize other people's typos, you might want to check your own first.
A short term answer would be to put the babies in government care for adoption and deport the mothers immediately. The child can accompay the mother if she waives all citizenship or residency claims for herself and the child.
This scam would end quickly once the word gets out that mom gets nothing nad loses her child.
All the money we spend on the state and federal level could be better used helping out native citizens rather than Illegals.
This is the huge problem with immigration all over the world of industrialized (first world) nations,...migrants are NOW coming here for welfare and are ignorant, really have NO SKILLS to speak of and don't want to learn our language.
It wasn't that way when we were building a nation, but personal values have changed (degraded) all over the world.