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US sets up task force to combat birth tourism, revokes more than 600 visas
US State Department also announced earlier this week it had revoked more than 175,000 visas since Donald Trump returned to office
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Lucy Quagginin New York
The Trump administration announced on Wednesday the establishment of a task force to end birth tourism in the latest push to curtail the practice after the Supreme Court recently rejected US President Donald Trump’s attempt to restrict constitutional birthright citizenship.
Working alongside the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), the US State Department wrote in a fact sheet that it is “using all available tools to defend the integrity of US citizenship, ensure non-immigrant visas are used only for their lawful and intended purposes, and prevent their exploitation through birth tourism”.
It revealed that the Birth Tourism Prevention Task Force has revoked more than 600 visas from foreign nationals worldwide.
The State Department announced earlier this week that it had revoked more than 175,000 visas since Trump returned to office.
It also disclosed several birth-tourism-related revocations, stating that more than 100 visas were revoked by a US embassy in the North Africa region over the practice.
In his second term, Trump has targeted both legal and illegal immigration to the United States, with its broad sweep affecting nearly every single part of the system.
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