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Texas Targets Birth Tourism | Texas News
Texas Governor Greg Abbott just rolled out a bold new executive order targeting “birth tourism” — non-citizens coming to the U.S. specifically to give birth and claim citizenship for their children. Framed as a fight against fraud and exploitation of immigration laws, Abbott’s move orders six state agencies to investigate any facilitation of these schemes, declaring Texas won’t tolerate it. But critics warn this could backfire: experts say fewer than 30,000 such births occur annually, and immigration lawyers fear hospitals may hesitate to treat pregnant immigrants out of fear of legal…
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