Sponsor
Randy Fine
Representative · R-FL
Representative · R-FL
The bill creates a new federal crime and enables immediate removals to strengthen enforcement against birth-related immigration misrepresentation, trading faster prosecutions and deportations for greater criminalization of pregnant travelers, reduced immigration due process, and higher enforcement costs.
Immigrants who falsely claim they will give birth in the U.S. to obtain admission face a defined federal crime, giving prosecutors clearer authority to charge such misrepresentations.
Noncitizens convicted under this section can be removed immediately at sentencing, allowing immigration authorities to speed enforcement and reduce time in post-conviction custody.
Pregnant noncitizens (including parents traveling for medical care) risk criminal prosecution and mandatory removal, increasing legal vulnerability and discouraging people from seeking care.
Authorizing removal orders at sentencing reduces opportunities for standard removal proceedings and appeals, limiting immigration due process and judicial review for those affected.
Expanding this category of federal criminal enforcement will increase prosecutions, detentions, and removals, raising operational demands and costs for DOJ and immigration agencies.
Based on analysis of 2 sections of legislative text.
Creates a federal crime for entering the U.S. to give birth when parents are not citizens or lawful permanent residents and lets courts order removal at sentencing.
Creates a new federal crime for people who enter the United States to give birth when neither parent is a U.S. citizen or lawful permanent resident, by adding a specific misrepresentation offense to the federal immigration-fraud statute. It also authorizes federal district courts to issue an order of removal at the time of sentencing for convictions under this new offense. The change modifies the criminal statute that covers visa and entry fraud to include this specific factual scenario, makes minor punctuation edits to accommodate the insertion, and gives courts explicit authority to enter removal orders as part of sentencing for this offense.
Official title: To amend title 18, United States Code, to establish birth tourism as an offense, and for other purposes.
Introduced July 22, 2026 by Randy Fine · Last progress July 22, 2026