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The bill strengthens authorities to block and remove people believed to be engaging in birth tourism—potentially reducing transactional entries and clarifying enforcement—but it does so by giving officials broad, subjective discretion that risks wrongful denials, deters pregnant people from needed travel or care, produces inconsistent enforcement, and raises administrative costs.
Immigrants who travel primarily to obtain U.S. citizenship for a child face increased removal/denial risk, reducing incentives and entry for so-called 'birth tourism' and thereby limiting transactional arrivals.
Department of Homeland Security and consular officers gain clearer statutory authority to deny visas or admission when birth tourism is suspected, giving officials explicit enforcement discretion and (potentially) simplifying case handling.
Pregnant noncitizens (including women traveling for legitimate reasons) may be denied visas, entry, or removed based on officials' subjective 'reasonable judgment,' risking erroneous denials and family separation.
Pregnant people who need care or travel for medical reasons may be deterred from seeking medical attention in the U.S. (or from traveling at all) because being likely to give birth within the policy's 10‑month window can trigger deportability or denial.
The 10‑month timing rule and related screening can bar or complicate legitimate short trips (family visits, medical travel, routine travel) by pregnant people, restricting mobility for parents and families.
Based on analysis of 3 sections of legislative text.
Creates inadmissibility and deportability grounds for visitors who enter to obtain U.S. citizenship for a child by giving birth or who are likely to give birth within 10 months.
Official title: To amend the Immigration and Nationality Act to provide for the inadmissibility of certain aliens seeking citizenship for children by giving birth in the United States, and for other purposes.
Introduced July 23, 2026 by Rich McCormick · Last progress July 23, 2026
Prohibits admission and allows deportation of nonimmigrant visitors who are judged to have entered the United States primarily to give birth so their child will acquire U.S. citizenship. It defines "birth tourism" by agency reasonable judgment to include entering for the primary purpose of obtaining U.S. citizenship for a child by birth or being likely to give birth within 10 months of entry. The bill adds a new inadmissibility ground for B-1/B-2 applicants and a new deportability ground for aliens who entered to engage in birth tourism, and it vests the Secretary of Homeland Security, the Secretary of State, and consular officers with authority to make the reasonable-judgment determinations about birth tourism.