US State Department also announced earlier this week it had revoked more than 175,000 visas since Donald Trump returned to office
3-MIN READ3-MIN ListenLucy Quagginin New YorkPublished: 5:30am, 13 Aug 2026The 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.
