Birthright Citizen Marco Rubio Announces Birthright Citizenship Crackdown
Summary
Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced that the State Department has canceled over 600 visas in a new effort to stop "birth tourism," where people come to the U.S. to have children so they can get citizenship. The effort targets fraud and abuse in the visa system but does not change the constitutional right to citizenship for children born in the U.S.Key Facts
- Marco Rubio, whose parents were not U.S. citizens when he was born, announced the crackdown on birth tourism.
- Birth tourism involves foreign nationals traveling to the U.S. to give birth so their children automatically become U.S. citizens under the 14th Amendment.
- The crackdown cancels visas and targets networks that help people commit visa fraud to enable birth tourism.
- A new Birth Tourism Prevention Task Force was created to investigate and act against these networks.
- The task force has already taken action against hundreds of foreign nationals worldwide within its first month.
- This effort follows a Supreme Court ruling confirming that children born in the U.S. to parents here unlawfully or temporarily are still citizens at birth.
- President Donald Trump has criticized birthright citizenship and wants to limit what he calls "citizenship tourism," but the constitutional protection remains in place.
- The State Department has not shared specific countries involved or groups targeted by the task force yet.
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