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Jan 10 2018, 10:38 am ET
Birth tourism brings Russian baby boom to Miami
by Cynthia McFadden, Sarah Fitzpatrick, Tracy Connor and Anna R. Schecter
MIAMI — Lured by the charm of little Havana or the glamour of South Beach, some 15 million tourists visit Miami every year.
But for a growing number of Russian women, the draw isn't sunny beaches or pulsing nightclubs. It's U.S. citizenship for their newborn children.
In Moscow, it's a status symbol to have a Miami-born baby, and social media is full of Russian women boasting of their little americantsy.
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