The TOI correspondent from Washington: A California-based obstetrician of Indian origin who graduated from Secunderabad’s Gandhi Medical College has found herself swept into America’s increasingly heated battle over immigration, birthright citizenship, and what MAGA nationalists call the “birth tourism industry.”
Dr. Athiya Javid, who runs an OB-GYN practice in San Jose, is among four maternity-related businesses that received probe letters this week from the powerful House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform led by Republican chairman James Comer and Texas Congressman Brandon Gill, who heads the panel’s Task Force on Defending Constitutional Rights and Exposing Institutional Abuses.
