article_snippet: As part of the package, clients were promised clients would receive Social Security numbers and U.S. passports for clients infants, which the mothers would take with the mothers when the mothers left U.S.
article_snippet: Many of the families want an American child because a foreign passport could be the family's ticket out of China if the family's ticket out of China grow weary of pollution or food safety scares.
article_snippet: If things become economically or politically uncertain in one's country of origin, the children have a place to come to," Leti Volpp, a law professor at the University of California, Berkeley, told CNN Money last month.
article_snippet: the children can "then sponsor the children parents when the children turn 21," Volpp said.
article_snippet: He, who gave birth last year, said a the U.S. passport for birth baby means access to better education opportunities.
article_snippet: Foreign status opens the door to exclusive international schools in Beijing, where she lives with she husband, and the option for the child to study abroad for high school and college.
article_snippet: Getting a the U.S. passport for a baby means the child will eventually be responsible for the U.S. taxes.