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State Department establishes task force to end ‘birth tourism’

The task force will target visa fraud and criminal networks as the agency says more than 600 birth tourism visas have already been revoked.

  • The U.S. State Department has launched a Birth Tourism Prevention Task Force to address birth tourism issues in the country.
  • Birth tourism operators deceive or lure foreign nationals with advertisements to encourage giving birth on U.S. soil, according to a State Department order.
  • The task force aims to identify birth tourism cases and dismantle the criminal networks involved in the practice.
  • The State Department stated, "Citizenship is not a commodity to be acquired through calculated exploitation and evasion of the immigration laws".
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Telemundo Area de la Bahía 48 broke the news on Wednesday, August 12, 2026.
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