‘Trump is planning to bar pregnant women from entering the US’
This is according to media reports, which speak of a new plan devised by President Trump’s aides and allies of the MAGA movement
After losing their case on birthright citizenship at the Supreme Court, President Trump’s aides and allies of the MAGA movement have turned to a new plan: preventing pregnant foreign women from entering the United States. This is according to Axios, which reports that the proposal would spark a new battle over immigration centred on pregnancy, travel and citizenship, shifting the debate from challenging the rights of children born in the United States to restricting who can enter the country. “President Trump remains fully committed to protecting the value of US citizenship by birth, which is why, following the ruling, he has called on Congress to take immediate action to address the issue,” White House spokeswoman Abigail Jackson told Axios in a statement sent by email.
“The Department of Justice will also prioritise investigations into cases of ‘birth tourism’. The Trump administration has many tools at its disposal to safeguard US citizenship.” “US criminal laws already prohibit conduct associated with many of these so-called ‘birth tourism’ schemes,” wrote Deputy Attorney General Colin McDonald in a memo sent to X. “For example, many of these schemes begin with a fraudulent visa application, containing false statements about the purpose or duration of the trip to the United States.” So-called ‘birth tourism’ occurs when visitors travel to the United States specifically to give birth and secure US citizenship for their child. Axios notes that the US government does not keep track of the number of children born to foreign parents, but external estimates suggest a figure of between 20,000 and 26,000 cases per year. To put this into context, according to the Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), 3.6 million children were born in the United States in 2025, making ‘birth tourism’ relatively rare.
