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.