Trump attorney general plots crackdown on ‘birth tourism’ after supreme court ruling

The Guardian ^ | Wed 1 Jul 2026 16.06 EDT | Shrai Propat

[E. Pluribus Unum]

Todd Blanche to target tourists and migrants despite such births accounting for less than 1% of US babies born yearly

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A day after the US supreme court upheld the constitutional guarantee of birthright citizenship, the acting attorney general, Todd Blanche, has said federal prosecutors and law enforcement officers will focus on combating so-called “birth tourism” – the process of tourists, temporary visitors and undocumented immigrants traveling to the US and giving birth.

“There’s other things that [the Department if Homeland Security] can do, and the federal government can do in the visa process, and the application process, to try to minimize or limit the opportunity of folks coming here not to visit, and not to do what they’re saying they’re doing on the tourist visa, but just to have a baby that can then be a US citizen,” Blanche told reporters.

“What we have to do as Department of Justice is make sure our agents, our [Homeland Security Investigations] agents that we work with, and the FBI are focused on stopping that.” students in graduation caps and gowns Save student loan plan ends, leaving millions of US borrowers 90 days to find a new one Read more

Shortly after the court’s last ruling of its current term, the assistant attorney general for the national fraud division also, in an office-wide memo, directed justice department staff to bring fraud charges in alleged cases of birth tourism.

“The Department of Justice will zealously protect the sanctity of United States citizenship by investigating and prosecuting those who fraudulently exploit our immigration system,” Colin McDonald wrote.

During the oral arguments in the Trump v Barbara case in April, the government’s lawyer D John Sauer conceded that “no one knows for sure” how significant a problem so-called birth tourism actually is. The Center for...

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[E. Pluribus Unum]

despite such births accounting for less than 1% of US babies born yearly

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[lucky american]

There is a simple ways to combat this. Human trafficking for any reason can be used as punishment.

[Libloather]

US territory turned tropical maternity ward has produced thousands of ‘American’ babies for parents living in China (The Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands (CNMI), a US territory northeast of Guam in the Pacific Ocean)

https://nypost.com/2026/03/19/us-news/us-territory-where-thousands-of-chinese-moms-give-birth-to-american-babies/

[TLI]

“migrants despite such births accounting for less than 1% of US babies “

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So does that infer that LE will look the other way when I rob ONLY 1% of banks in the U.S.?

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[cableguymn]

What if I only take 1% of the total money in said bank?

They use the same argument for voter fraud.

They fail to mention that many races are decided by less than 1%

[TornadoAlley3]

You know they vote. They were Born here. They Left as a Child and can vote in our elections even though they have never paid taxes here. Stop that!

[TStro]

Come along the Rio Grande
Pregnant women come across the border in an ambulance and have their babies in our hospitals free
Been going on for years

[TStro]

Should have been they come across the Rio Grande

[blackdog]

86 the federal judiciary.

[grobdriver]

despite such births accounting for less than 1% of US babies born yearly

One is one too many.

[AZJeep]

there were 3.6 millions of births in the USA
1% is about 36,000
That’s quite a lot!

[ridesthemiles]

WHEN I BOLTED SO CALIF 33 +++ YEARS AGO-—THIS “BIRTH TOURISM” BUSINESS WAS VERY BUSY. IT IS NOT NEW.

[ridesthemiles]

THEY CAN ALSO ATTEND COLLEGE AS A US CITIZEN