Marco Rubio Announces ‘Birth Tourism’ Crackdown

Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced Wednesday that the State Department has revoked more than 600 visas in a major new effort targeting organized “birth tourism” operations that exploit U.S. immigration laws.

Rubio declared on X that “American citizenship is not for sale.”

The Trump administration is cracking down on networks that help foreign nationals travel to America specifically to give birth so their children automatically receive U.S. citizenship.

A newly created Birth Tourism Prevention Task Force has already acted against hundreds of foreign nationals worldwide in its first month.

“Elaborate birth tourism rings are profiting off the exploitation of America’s laws, coaching foreigners to defraud the U.S. visa system, arranging travel and housing, and even forging documents, all to enable foreign nationals to obtain citizenship for their children,” Rubio said in a statement.

The push does not change the 14th Amendment’s guarantee of birthright citizenship. Instead, it focuses on fraud, visa deception, and commercial facilitators who treat American citizenship as a commodity.