Birth tourism

American Thought Leaders host Jan Jekelich spoke to Tom Homan, White House border czar, for insight.

You know, one of the areas that the president has been quite interested is challenging this birth tourism that's, you know, in particular been used a lot by...

There's been...

We've reported on a number of operations out of communist China to facilitate this.

And of course, the SCOTUS decided that, you know, birth tourism is off the table, but Congress can make laws.

And so, uh, here we are.

And the president had an executive order targeting travel and visa fraud.

And so how is that going?

And you saw in Trump's executive order that he tried to expand the definition, for example, of occupying armies to include foreign terrorist organizations, and he tried to expand foreign diplomats to now include officials of international organizations.

But here's where I think Trump versus Barbara still keeps the door closed despite the concern in the country today over birth tourism.

So Trump, the third part of Trump's executive order sa- tries to prevent birthright citizenship to being af- afforded to the children of parents who come here through these birth tourism schemes.

And I think that is foreclosed by Trump versus Barbara, that there is this limit to how far the executive branch and Congress can go in testing the limits of a Supreme Court decision.

If, as it seems to me to be the case, I don't necessarily agree with this as an original matter, but it seems to me in practice the president and Congress completely accept these days that the Supreme Court does seem to be the final arbiter of constitutional meaning the way that it's declare- self-declared its power to do so in City of Boerne versus, versus Flores and Dickerson and Shelby County.

It's not even changing, but allowing some redefinition of the other categories for the occupying armies and for foreign diplomats.

But I don't s- think it would allow, for example, it would be cu- I'm curious to hear what you others think.

I don't think this Court and the way they vote, the way the justices voted would affirm, for example, President Trump's effort to eliminate birthright citizenship for the children of parents who come here through birth tourism schemes.

All right.

And Attorney General Todd Blanch is speaking to the Epoch Times American Thought Leaders, where he says the Justice Department is investigating birth tourism.

That's despite a Supreme Court ruling that struck down the president's birthright citizenship order.

There's more on that.

Attorney General Todd Blanch telling American Thought Leaders Monday that the Department of Justice is investigating birth tourism.

We're working with the Supreme Court decision to make sure that we're doing everything we can to stop, for example, people coming to this country just to have a kid.

On June 30th, the Supreme Court struck down President Trump's broad birthright citizenship order issued in January 2025, which excluded children of illegal immigrants and legal temporary visitors from automatic U.S. citizenship.

Blanche says they're working with DHS, HSI, and CBP to tighten the questions asked of people entering the country, and he's not waiting for Congress to change the Constitution.

It makes my blood boil that things like that are taking place in an active combat zone right now.

Last story I've got is DOJ working with agencies to tighten visa screening for birth tourism.

This is something that I'm curious to get your guys' take.

I'll give you my opinion here in a second after I read a little bit more of it.

Despite Supreme Court setback, DOJ is working with federal immigration agencies to combat birth tourism.

Birth tourism remains a problem.

Officials taking steps.

DOJ working with Department of Homeland Security.

We talked about the cattle industry.

We talked about, uh, the climate change scam, uh, and we wrapped it up with a little bit on the birth tourism brouhaha.

Um, it was a, a fantastic episode.

It was a huge honor to meet her.

Been on the farm before.

I know the way that, uh, that that goes.

Um, real quick, you know, as we, as we close, something else, uh, I've seen that you've been active on has been, uh, a lot of this birth tourism, uh, stuff.

You know, the, believe it was yesterday, so the day, you know, before we recorded this, uh, Secretary Rubio, uh, made an announcement that they're gonna be, uh, pulling the visas of people who are aiding in, uh, birth tourism here in the United States.

[static] [dramatic music] I'll tell you this, that, uh, you know, Canada's been ripping off the United States for many, many years, for decades.

How sophisticated have birth tourism businesses become in helping foreign nationals obtain visas, enter the country, and give birth here?

If we didn't do it, Iran would have, right now, on having to do with Iran, a nuclear weapon.

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And then we've got this, the scam of the century.

500 companies in China are openly selling American citizenship.

How sophisticated have birth tourism businesses become in helping foreign nationals obtain visas, enter the country, and give birth here?

Frankly, I don't think they've had to become very sophisticated because it's been so easy.

[instrumental music] I tell you this, that, uh, you know, Canada's been ripping off the United States for many, many years, for decades.

How sophisticated have birth tourism businesses become in helping foreign nationals obtain visas, enter the country, and give birth here?

If we didn't do it, Iran would have, right now, on having to do with Iran, a nuclear weapon.

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We got that to deal with, and then we've got this, the scam of the century.

500 companies in China are openly selling American citizenship.

How sophisticated have birth tourism businesses become in helping foreign nationals obtain visas, enter the country, and give birth here?

Frankly, I don't think they've had to become very sophisticated because it's been so easy.

We'll keep you updated there.

And the White House border czar Tom Homan says the federal government is working to close a loophole that allows Chinese nationals to conduct birth tourism on American soil.

Homan was speaking on American Thought Leaders with Yania Kellick.

This comes as Homan says the past few months have seen record-breaking numbers of ICE arrests.

NTD's Fiona Gee reports.

Borders are Tom Homan says that Russia and China are two of the biggest abusers of birth tourism.

Now that's the practice of foreign nationals traveling into the U.S. to give birth here so that their children will automatically get U.S. citizenship.

Homan says that this is a driver of illegal immigration.