But if these women falsified their reason for entering the CNMI — e.g., by claiming on their entry documents, or, on questioning by Immigration officials, to be entering the CNMI as tourists or for purposes of tourism — would this not constitute unlawful fraud (particularly where they’ve signed the entry documents under penalty of perjury)?
Perhaps equally relevant to recollect is the fact that rights protected by the U.S. and CNMI Constitutions do not apply so as to protect persons until such time as those persons are permitted by government officials to lawfully enter the CNMI — and so, if at point of entry, persons claiming to be tourists are denied entry on suspicion of being pregnancy scammers, the constitutional protections would not appear to come into play.
BRUCE L. JORGENSEN
Honolulu, Hawaii
