The United States has shut down multiple birth tourism networks across Europe and Africa, the State Department announced Wednesday, stating, “No foreigner is permitted to obtain a visitor visa for the primary purpose of acquiring U.S. citizenship for a child by giving birth in the U.S.”
According to the State Department, the networks have been trying to ship hundreds of pregnant foreign nationals into the United States homeland so they can give birth there and gain citizenship for the child. Foreigners who do so can then use the child’s citizenship as an anchor to stay in the country.
“A U.S. visa is a privilege, not a right. The State Department is taking action around the world to stop this abuse, dismantle birth tourism networks, and hold accountable those who try to scam our system,” the State Department said on social media.
A U.S. embassy in West Africa found what the State Department called a “sophisticated birth tourism network” where more than 100 foreigners were “using fraudulent documents and visa ‘fixers'” to obtain access to the United States. The department said they “shut it down,” revoked the visas, and are working with local governments to identify and stop any other operations.
In a similar fashion a U.S. embassy in North Africa revoked more than 100 visas for parents who came to the U.S. for the purposes of giving birth and accessing U.S. citizenship. “Consular officers — working with law enforcement and using data analytics — identified several networks abusing the system and put a stop to it,” the department stated.
Embassy officials in Europe discovered more than 400 cases of suspected birth tourism dating back to 2024 and traced them to “at least six companies that coached applicants on what to say in their visa interview, arranged U.S. housing, and set up delivery plans,” the State Department said, adding that they shut those operations down as well and “permanently banned several fraudsters from ever traveling to the United States again.”
Birth tourism is yet another fraud scheme perpetrated by Third-Worlders who see the United States as a suicidally empathetic ATM, ripe for cultural invasion. More than half of all immigrants, and an even larger percentage of illegal immigrants, sap U.S. public welfare systems of billions of dollars, forcing Americans to be bled dry paying for their own replacement.
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Birth tourism only works because of a nonsense interpretation of the 14th Amendment that allows so-called “birthright citizenship” (a.k.a birthplace citizenship), skewing the amendment to mean that anyone from anywhere who happens to be born on American soil is automatically a U.S. citizen.
It is easy to take advantage of the system. As The Federalist’s Brianna Lyman reported, a Chinese billionaire has reportedly sired more than 100 children through surrogacy, all of whom have ostensibly been granted U.S citizenship under the current framework. The surrogacy companies are U.S.-based, and there are other purely birth tourism companies that are U.S.-based as well, such as Have My Baby in Miami, Doctors Para Ti, and International Maternity Services, among others.
But the issue is not simply the hundreds of fraudulent citizenship-seeking births each year. The Center for Immigration Studies says there were about 70,000 births to temporary visitors in 2023, and an estimated 500,000 in the past 10 years, making every single one eligible for citizenship.
In order to solve part of the problem, President Donald Trump signed an executive order titled Protecting the Meaning and Value of American Citizenship, which correctly interprets the 14th Amendment to stop the birthplace citizenship scam.
That order is currently being challenged in the Supreme Court, where a decision is expected near the end of June.
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As The Federalist reported, in this decision, the Supreme Court will effectively determine whether the United States has sovereignty, or whether it is simply an economic zone meant to be raped and pillaged by the entire world.
