Wow, so many of the people in this thread are willing to criticize this woman without thinking. Let's examine a few facts here.
1) This woman was on an airliner travelling to a US International Airport. This tells us that she had a passport and a visa. How many illegal aliens have passports and visas? Hmmm? You're all so quick to assume that she's an illegal, when there is absolutely NOTHING in the article to indicate that.
2) The fact that she was on an airliner, completing an international flight, also tells us something else...she has money. Mexicans who sneak across the border typically don't have the cash to buy a plane ticket to Chicago, and Mexican's who DO have that kind of money really aren't coming here anyway. It's the Mexican poor who are flooding into the US, not the middle and upper classes of Mexican society who are quite comfortable where they're at.
The only facts we have here are that a Mexican woman gave birth over US airspace and that the child may have claim to US citizenship. There is no indication that the mother actually intends to pursue that citizenship, or that she has any desire to come into the US permanently. For all we know, she may have been coming to see a pediatric specialist (lots of foregners come here for medical attention) or simply to visit a relative who lives in the US.
Sorry but she's a common Mexican scam artist. She wants her baby to be a US citizen. It's as simple as that. What's got you confused is that she's a fly in scammer instead of a pregnant border jumper. Which also happens
Would you fly in such an advanced state of pregnancy?
Already she is scamming free medical care for herself and baby. She will never pay back one thin dime