NBC BayAreaがAAPI (というか最近はネイティブハワイアン入れてAANHPIらしい) month特集で取り上げてたのがこれ、
これ、AAPI heritage的に取り上げてたんだけど、"paper sons/daughters"って、
Paper sons or paper daughters is a term used to refer to Chinese people who were born in China and illegally immigrated to the United States and Canada[1] by purchasing documentation which stated that they were blood relatives to Chinese people who had already received U.S. or Canadian[2] citizenship or residency. Typically it would be relation by being a son or a daughter.[3] Several historical events such as the Chinese Exclusion Act and San Francisco earthquake of 1906 caused the illegal documents to be produced.[4]
あくまで「違法」なわけだよね。その子孫は直接の犯罪は関係ないけれど、それをこんな形で紹介するのは法を遵守してアメリカ国民になった身としてはやっぱり抵抗がある。