State Dept. Identifies Several ‘Birth Tourism’ Networks Around World

The State Department has identified multiple birth tourism networks operating overseas, according to a Wednesday report.

The discoveries came after the State Department directed U.S. diplomatic personnel to closely scrutinize potentially fraudulent documentation.

As a result, U.S. embassies in West Africa, Europe, and North Africa uncovered evidence of several schemes allegedly designed to generate false records and help foreign nationals travel to the United States for the purpose of giving birth on American soil.

The Daily Wire was the first outlet to report on the existence of the networks.

In West Africa, a U.S. embassy uncovered a “sophisticated birth tourism network” where more than 100 foreign nationals were using fraudulent documents to obtain visas and secure U.S. citizenship for their offspring.

The State Department shut down this birth tourism network and revoked the foreign nationals’ visas, the outlet reported.