By Kevin Tripp, KABC
The JR Motel in the City of Orange advertises itself as a place where pregnant women from China can live. Babies born in America automatically have citizenship. Now, the city’s planning commission says the motel violates several fire and building codes. City officials also say the owners have failed to pay the 10-percent hotel tax. A lawyer for the motel’s owner accused the city of discrimination. So-called birth tourism is popular in several parts of Southern California.