Chinese and Mexican Immigrants May Have Something In Common

Seems like Latin American Immigrants may have something in common with Chinese immigrants trying to gain entrance to a place with "better" health care options. According to a story published by BBC today, Chinese immigrants to Hong Kong are being denied entrance to the country if they are more than 28 weeks pregnant. Of course, the first thing I thought of was the parallels this story has to Latinos trying to enter the US. Given Hong Kong's thriving economy "capitalistic" economy, I can understand why many Chinese women prefer their children to reap these benefits. It would appear that the Hong Kong health care system is superior to that of the Chinese system if over 12,000 mainland Chinese arrived to give birth. Be it protecting the Hong Kong resources or discriminatory in nature, Hong Kong officials enacted this policy to limit the number of Chinese births in Hong Kong. What is fascinating about this article to me is that Mexicans are not the only ones looked down on upon this world for trying to give their children better opportunities in another country. I only wish I could let so many immigrants know that the care in the US is just as corrupt and full of inequities as it is in México.