'It was humiliating': Airline makes woman take pregnancy test

Wall Street JournalThe airline apologised to Nishida, and said the practice had been discontinued, when contacted by AFP.

"We have immediately suspended the practice while we review it. We'd like to apologise for the distress caused," the airline said in a statement. Hong Kong Express said it had taken"action on flights to Saipan from February 2019 to help ensure US immigration laws were not being undermined" in response to concerns raised by the island's authorities.Saipan is a popular destination for women wanting to give birth on US soil to secure American citizenship for their child.

In 2018 nearly 600 babies were born to tourists in the Northern Mariana Islands, which sit just north of Guam, also a US territory - a figure greater than the number of babies born to locals.The influx followed the introduction in 2009 of a visa-waiver programme to attract Chinese holidaymakers, a scheme that made the islands the only US territory where Chinese citizens enjoy visa-free entry.

In recent years Saipan has stepped up measures to curb"birth tourism" by requiring airlines to carry out screenings.

You can only be humiliated if you have done something wrong and got caught. Otherwise, hold you head high and walk tall. This is just one that was not pregnant. What about the other thousands who get away with it. US is doing nothing wrong.

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