ICE launches new effort to crack down on ‘birth tourism schemes’ across the US

Teona Gherasim

President Trump’s administration plans to ​crack down on networks it says help pregnant women lie on visa applications in order to secure US citizenship for their US-born babies, an issue that ‌Trump has highlighted to justify his attempts to restrict birthright citizenship . In an internal email sent Thursday and reviewed by Reuters, Immigration and Customs Enforcement ordered investigative agents around the country to focus on a new “Birth Tourism Initiative.” The operation will seek to root