Link: First-Baby Sweepstakes Fuels Immigration Debate - New York Times.
It seemed like a perfect formula for good publicity: A national sweepstakes would award a $25,000 United States savings bond to the first American baby born in 2007, courtesy of the toy chain Toys “R” Us and its Babies “R” Us division.
Instead, after disqualifying a Chinese-American baby girl born in New York Downtown Hospital at the stroke of midnight on New Year’s, the toy company finds itself caught in the glare of the immigration debate, stumbling over the nation’s new demographic realities.
UPDATE (Jan. 7) - The company quickly reversed itself after the New York Times story ran, and awarded the grand prize to the couple and their baby despite the parents' legal status. See here.
