{"id":331,"date":"2026-07-05T19:05:54","date_gmt":"2026-07-05T14:05:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/?p=331"},"modified":"2026-07-05T19:05:54","modified_gmt":"2026-07-05T14:05:54","slug":"bar-pregnant-foreigners-from-entering-us-trump-allies-considering-all-options-after-supreme-court-defeat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/?p=331","title":{"rendered":"Bar pregnant foreigners from entering US? Trump allies considering all options after Supreme Court defeat."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><script>\r\n  atOptions = {\r\n    'key' : '644b717812d811d6a1c1fc5b6ccd6fa6',\r\n    'format' : 'iframe',\r\n    'height' : 90,\r\n    'width' : 728,\r\n    'params' : {}\r\n  };\r\n<\/script>\r\n<script src=\"https:\/\/www.highperformanceformat.com\/644b717812d811d6a1c1fc5b6ccd6fa6\/invoke.js\"><\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.politico.com\/74\/04\/976369d949f6be53d76e127404bf\/supreme-court-birthright-citizenship-848.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>President Donald Trump lost his decade-long bid to end birthright citizenship, but the administration\u2019s zeal to curtail illegal immigration is far from over \u2014 instead, it\u2019s being redirected into policies targeting women who come to the U.S. to give birth so their child will automatically be a citizen.<\/p>\n<p>In the hours after the Supreme Court defeat, White House aides and allies discussed a number of policy options, according to two administration officials and several others close to the administration. Suggestions range from prosecuting organizations or individuals involved in <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/TheJusticeDept\/status\/2072055062600499269?s=20\" target=\"_blank\"><u>\u201cbirth tourism schemes\u201d<\/u><\/a> or women already in the country for fraud to barring entry of pregnant women entirely.<\/p>\n<p>The immediate discussions reflect the administration\u2019s determination to project momentum on one of the president\u2019s signature priorities despite the Supreme Court setback. While officials and allies expressed frustration with the ruling, they had largely anticipated the outcome and are now intent on reassuring supporters that the decision will not derail the administration\u2019s broader efforts to curtail illegal immigration.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGoing forward, the administration will continue its fight against pull factors for illegal immigration and aliens with fraudulent intent to enter the U.S. solely to have children here,\u201d said an administration official, granted anonymity to discuss internal thinking.<\/p>\n<p>The president launched his efforts to end birthright citizenship with a day one executive order, in which his administration used the threat of \u201cbirth tourism\u201d as the rationale for ending the practice of granting automatic citizenship to children born on U.S. soil.<\/p>\n<p>Shortly after the court\u2019s ruling, the Justice Department <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/TheJusticeDept\/status\/2072055062600499269\/photo\/2\" target=\"_blank\"><u>released a memo<\/u><\/a> urging U.S. attorneys to work with DHS to \u201cprioritize the investigation and prosecution of birth tourism schemes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The memo said \u201cthousands of foreigners\u201d travel to the U.S. each year under \u201cfalse pretenses to give birth and secure citizenship for their child.\u201d Estimates are uncertain, but based on a review of U.S. Census data, up to 26,000 babies born in the U.S. annually could be attributed to women coming to the U.S. solely to give birth \u2014 a fraction of the more than 3.5 million yearly U.S. births, according to the non-partisan <a href=\"https:\/\/www.migrationpolicy.org\/article\/birth-tourism-trump\" target=\"_blank\"><u>Migration Policy Institute.<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The memo said while most cases could be prosecuted under visa fraud, attorneys should also look to other federal statutes, including wire fraud, money laundering, unlawful use of means of identification, identity theft and conspiracy to commit health care fraud. The memo builds on a DHS effort announced this spring to root out networks that help pregnant foreigners come to the U.S. to give birth.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEverybody should agree that it\u2019s a violation of our laws if your intent in coming here, if you\u2019re pregnant, is to have a child to become a U.S. citizen,\u201d acting attorney general Todd Blanche told reporters Wednesday. \u201cAnd so what we have to do as the Department of Justice is make sure our agents, our HSI agents that we work with, and the FBI are focused on stopping that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Border czar Tom Homan, Department of Homeland Secretary Markwayne Mullin and White House deputy chief of staff of policy Stephen Miller met Tuesday at the White House with the president to discuss policy options, Mullin said Wednesday on Fox News. White House spokesperson Abigail Jackson said the president \u201cremains totally committed to protecting the value of natural-born American citizenship,\u201d and that in addition to cracking down on &#8220;birth tourism,&#8221; the administration will also \u201cdouble down on our efforts to keep the border secure and deport illegal aliens.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The administration is also discussing ways to ramp up enforcement writ large, with this week\u2019s ruling adding fuel to efforts to remove immigrants residing in the U.S. under temporary status, including temporary protected status and parole.<\/p>\n<p>A second administration official, granted anonymity to discuss internal thinking, said the ruling could expand the use of a section of federal law known as 212(f) to ban some immigrants from entering the United States. Allies were more direct, arguing that the Supreme Court ruling does not prohibit the administration\u2019s ability to prohibit pregnant women from entering the country.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cUnder current law, pregnant women can be barred from entry, and the president can do that under 212(f), again existing law,\u201d said Ken Cuccinelli, who served as the deputy DHS secretary during Trump\u2019s first term. \u201cThe State Department can bar those visas, and CBP can bar entry for those folks if the president chooses to do that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Mullin, on Fox News, offered a similar assessment, pointing to travel during late-term pregnancy.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou\u2019re not going on vacation, in an emergency, in late-term pregnancy. Those are some issues we can look at,\u201d he said. \u201cBecause at the end of the day, it is national security.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Pregnant women are not currently prohibited from traveling to the U.S., but consular officers do have the discretion to deny visitor visas, and U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers can deny entry, if they believe a woman\u2019s primary purpose for traveling is to have a child in the U.S., noted Jessica Vaughan, director of policy studies at the Center for Immigration Studies, a group that looks to curtail legal and illegal immigration. The administration could impose additional limits on temporary visas, requiring short-term visa and entry applicants to disclose if they are pregnant or planning to give birth in the U.S.<\/p>\n<p><b>\u201c<\/b>That way, there will be a paper trail if the woman does end up having a child here, and potential grounds for visa revocation and other penalties, perhaps even a permanent bar to future entry,\u201d Vaughan said.<\/p>\n<p>She added that the government could also terminate the policy of allowing visa-free travel to some U.S. territories, including the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands. Congressional Republicans have pointed to the island, which lies roughly one-third of the way between mainland China and the continental U.S., as a national security concern.<\/p>\n<p>Trump, who has called birthright citizenship a \u201cmagnet for illegal immigration\u201d and took the unprecedented step of traveling to the Supreme Court to listen to oral arguments in April, placed the onus on Congress on Tuesday to push the issue forward. Administration officials privately acknowledge there aren\u2019t the votes for a constitutional amendment, but the court loss did reignite a push among Republican lawmakers who have introduced legislation to target temporary visitors who intend to give birth in the United States.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe need to be voting on these every week until we provide the American people with an answer for this question,\u201d said Sen. Rick Scott (R-Fla.), who pointed to <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/SenRickScott\/status\/2071977312057180223?s=20\" target=\"_blank\"><u>his past bills on the issue.<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n<script async=\"async\" data-cfasync=\"false\" src=\"https:\/\/pl30214220.effectivecpmnetwork.com\/9ab3d4df8a7e1a6171e16ddbf732cc19\/invoke.js\"><\/script>\r\n<div id=\"container-9ab3d4df8a7e1a6171e16ddbf732cc19\"><\/div>\r\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Donald Trump lost his decade-long bid to end birthright citizenship, but the administration\u2019s zeal to curtail illegal immigration is far from over \u2014 instead, it\u2019s being redirected into policies targeting women who come to the U.S. to give birth so their child will automatically be a citizen. 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