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Official title: Bar aliens from admission to the United States to give birth on United States soil or remaining in the United States to undermine the sovereignty of the United States through birth tourism.
Introduced May 12, 2026 by John Cornyn · Last progress May 12, 2026
The bill strengthens tools to detect, deter, and prosecute commercial birth‑tourism and speeds removal and enforcement, but it does so by expanding detention, criminal penalties, invasive medical screening, and executive discretion while narrowing judicial review and raising substantial civil‑liberties, economic, and administrative risks.
Immigrants associated with commercial birth‑tourism schemes and the public: the bill creates clearer detention, removal, and screening authorities that make it easier to detect, detain, and expel persons involved in birth‑tourism, reducing the incentive for visa/entry fraud and shortening case backlogs.
Law enforcement, prosecutors, and federal health programs: the bill creates new federal criminal offenses, high statutory penalties, and stronger coordination (task force and referrals) to deter and prosecute commercial birth‑tourism organizers and protect federal healthcare funds.
Federal agencies, consular posts, and Congress: the bill clarifies statutory authority, mandates training and annual reporting, and supports coordinated enforcement and oversight, which can standardize responses and improve transparency about investigations and prosecutions.
Immigrants (including pregnant noncitizens) and their families: the bill substantially increases the risk of denial, mandatory or prolonged detention, expedited removal, and deportation while narrowing judicial review and shifting burdens of proof onto aliens, heightening risks of wrongful exclusion or family separation.
Women of childbearing age seeking B visas and routine travelers: the bill authorizes intrusive medical examinations and pregnancy‑focused screening that target people based on sex and reproductive capacity, creating privacy, discrimination, and bodily‑autonomy concerns.
Nonprofits, attorneys, translators, caregivers, and some healthcare providers: broad new criminal prohibitions and heavy penalties risk criminalizing humanitarian assistance, legal help, and routine hospital billing, chilling legitimate aid and raising due‑process concerns for those who assist migrants.
Based on analysis of 9 sections of legislative text.
Creates new federal crimes and penalties for facilitating birth tourism; expands inadmissibility/deportability, mandates detention, adds expedited removal, requires medical screening, and forms a DHS taskforce.
Makes entry, stay, and facilitation of "birth tourism" illegal through new criminal offenses, expanded inadmissibility and deportability grounds, mandatory detention, and an expedited removal process. It also requires medical screening for certain B‑visa applicants, creates a DHS taskforce to investigate facilitators, and suspends visa issuance for countries that refuse removed aliens. Imposes minimum 10-year federal prison terms and large fines for facilitation offenses, bars waivers and parole for covered inadmissibility/deportability grounds, and exempts top cabinet officials from some paperwork and rulemaking requirements to speed implementation. The act takes effect on enactment.