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Trump attorney general plots crackdown on ‘birth tourism’ after supreme court ruling
The Guardian ^ | Wed 1 Jul 2026 16.06 EDT | Shrai Propat

Posted on 07/01/2026 2:30:52 PM PDT by 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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despite such births accounting for less than 1% of US babies born yearly

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1 posted on 07/01/2026 2:30:52 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

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


2 posted on 07/01/2026 2:35:14 PM PDT by lucky american (Had enough yet?)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

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/


3 posted on 07/01/2026 2:35:32 PM PDT by Libloather (Why do climate change hoax deniers live in mansions on the beach?)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

“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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4 posted on 07/01/2026 2:36:36 PM PDT by TLI (ITINERIS IMPENDEO VALHALLA)
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To: TLI

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%


5 posted on 07/01/2026 2:48:31 PM PDT by cableguymn (Can't cancel all of us)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

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!


6 posted on 07/01/2026 3:05:41 PM PDT by TornadoAlley3 ( I'm Proud To Be An Okie From Muskogee)
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To: TornadoAlley3

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


7 posted on 07/01/2026 3:15:32 PM PDT by TStro (Come and take it!)
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To: TStro

Should have been they come across the Rio Grande


8 posted on 07/01/2026 3:18:47 PM PDT by TStro (Come and take it!)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

86 the federal judiciary.


9 posted on 07/01/2026 3:24:54 PM PDT by blackdog (The philosophy of the schoolroom in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
despite such births accounting for less than 1% of US babies born yearly

One is one too many.

10 posted on 07/01/2026 3:30:02 PM PDT by grobdriver (The CDC can KMA!)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

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


11 posted on 07/01/2026 4:12:49 PM PDT by AZJeep (sane )
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

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


12 posted on 07/01/2026 4:18:42 PM PDT by ridesthemiles (not giving up on TRUMP---EVER)
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To: TornadoAlley3

THEY CAN ALSO ATTEND COLLEGE AS A US CITIZEN


13 posted on 07/01/2026 4:19:20 PM PDT by ridesthemiles (not giving up on TRUMP---EVER)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

What if they give birth in Guantanamo Bay?

That is where we should send birth tourists.


14 posted on 07/01/2026 5:55:23 PM PDT by UnwashedPeasant (The pandemic we suffer from is not COVID. It is Marxist Democrat Leftism. )
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To: UnwashedPeasant

The state should consider deporting the criminal parents and giving the little Americans to American families to be raised with American loyalty.


15 posted on 07/01/2026 5:59:29 PM PDT by UnwashedPeasant (The pandemic we suffer from is not COVID. It is Marxist Democrat Leftism. )
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Migrants my ass.🖕🏼


16 posted on 07/01/2026 8:05:18 PM PDT by BiteYourSelf ( Earth first, we'll strip mine the other planets later.)
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