00:00Could pregnant visitors be banned from entering the U.S. altogether?
00:03This might become one of the next big immigration questions in America, and here's why.
00:08We know Donald Trump just lost a major battle over birthright citizenship at the Supreme Court.
00:13His executive order tried to deny automatic citizenship to some children born in the U.S.,
00:18but the court struck it down, reaffirming that nearly all children born on American soil are U.S. citizens.
00:25So now, according to Axios, Trump aides and MAGA allies are looking at another approach.
00:31Instead of fighting over what happens after a baby is born in America,
00:35they want to focus on who is allowed to enter the country before that birth happens.
00:40The target is something called birth tourism.
00:43This is when someone travels to the U.S. specifically to give birth so their child automatically becomes an American
00:49citizen.
00:49The Trump administration says this is about protecting the value of U.S. citizenship.
00:55And the Justice Department has now told federal prosecutors to prioritize investigations into birth tourism schemes,
01:01especially cases involving alleged visa fraud, false travel reasons,
01:05or organized networks helping people enter the U.S. to give birth.
01:10For context, the U.S. does not officially track how many babies are born to foreign visitors each year,
01:15but estimates put the number at around 20,000 to 26,000 annually.
01:20That is a small fraction of the roughly 3.6 million babies born in the U.S. each year.
01:25To be clear, Trump himself has not endorsed a full ban on pregnant visitors.
01:30But after the Supreme Court ruling, the immigration fight appears to be shifting,
01:35not from whether a child born in America gets citizenship,
01:38but whether some pregnant foreign women should be allowed into America in the first place.
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