The State Department will deny visas to foreigners who run or help run birth tourism operations.
\n\nSecretary of State Marco Rubio announced the restrictions Wednesday under a section of the Immigration and Nationality Act that lets the secretary declare a foreigner inadmissible on foreign policy grounds.
\n\nThe policy covers the people who own, run, and manage commercial birth tourism networks. It also covers visa “fixers” who coach applicants on how to lie, along with foreign doctors who knowingly help arrange the travel and the fraudulent use of Medicaid. Certain family members can be swept in too.
\n\nRubio said these networks advertise openly, walk clients through false visa applications, and charge tens of thousands of dollars to set up a birth in the United States.
\n\n“The United States will not allow foreigners to exploit our immigration system,” he said.
\n\nPregnant foreigners can still travel to the United States, and the restrictions apply only to people the administration decides are knowingly working the commercial side of it.
\n\nState has been at this since summer. Its Birth Tourism Prevention Task Force revoked more than 600 visas in its first month, and Rubio said in August that American citizenship is “not for sale.”
\n\nRubio’s…
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