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Trump admin puts alleged 'birth tourism' scheme on notice as expert delivers warning to hospitals

The Trump administration is using visa enforcement to target "birth tourism," an alleged scheme utilized by foreign nationals to obtain visitor visas for the primary purpose of giving birth in the U.S. and securing American citizenship for their children.The Trump administration recently announced that it disrupted "a sophisticated birth tourism network" in West Africa involving more than 100 foreign nationals utilizing false documents and, what the State Department described as "fixers," to get themselves visas to go to the United States to give birth so their children would be born on U.S. s...