Republican Georgia Rep. Rich McCormick introduced a bill to ban birth tourism in the U.S. to stop foreign nationals from traveling to give birth for birthright citizenship.
The bill accompanies Senator Marsha Blackburn's Ban Birth Tourism Act of 2026, aiming to clarify immigration law and make birth tourism a deportable offense.
The legislation follows the Supreme Court's ruling that the 14th Amendment grants citizenship to those born in the U.S., which blocked President Trump's executive order banning birth tourism.
McCormick stated that about 33,000 children are born annually in the U.S. to birth tourists, who are often coached to deceive immigration officials, calling it fraud that must end.