{"id":159354,"date":"2026-10-27T10:25:59","date_gmt":"2026-10-27T10:25:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=159354"},"modified":"2026-10-27T10:25:59","modified_gmt":"2026-10-27T10:25:59","slug":"us-ends-pacific-visa-waiver-over-birth-tourism-people-smuggling-allegations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=159354","title":{"rendered":"US ends Pacific visa waiver over birth tourism, people smuggling allegations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostWashington has suspended visa-free entry for Chinese visitors to the Northern Mariana Islands amid allegations of birth tourism and people smuggling in the US territory.<br \/>\nThe Department of Homeland Security (DHS) announced on Monday the suspension of the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands Economic Vitality and Security Travel Authorisation Programme.<br \/>\nUS Senator Mike Lee hailed the move on social media, calling the programme a \u201cBiden-era loophole for Chinese birth tourism\u201d and praising&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/diplomacy\/article\/3372309\/us-ends-pacific-visa-waiver-over-birth-tourism-people-smuggling-allegations\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostWashington has suspended visa-free entry for Chinese visitors to the Northern Mariana Islands amid allegations of birth tourism and people smuggling in the US&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159354"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=159354"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159354\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=159354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=159354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=159354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}