Mary Margaret Olihan

It's a little scary.

And it is absolutely a huge development.

Yeah, so we scooped this story this week that the State Department had uncovered evidence of birth tourism networks all over the country, or all over the world, actually.

In West Africa, in Europe, in North Africa, they found plans, multiple plans, actually, to produce fraudulent documents

and facilitate individuals traveling from these countries to the United States to give birth within our borders.

In West Africa, a U.S.

embassy found one of these sophisticated birth tourism networks where more than 100 foreign nationals were using these documents to get visas, secure U.S.

citizenship for their children.

And the State Department told me they're shutting this down.

They're looking into these individuals, they're coordinating with local authorities

to arrest and identify the people involved.

Similarly, in Europe, they found more than 400 suspected birth tourism cases that had occurred since 2024.

And in North Africa, one embassy revoked more than 100 visas for birth tourism parents who came to the United States.

Now, obviously, Ben, we've been talking about birthright citizenship a lot in the United States.

The president just truth about it.

I want to say two days ago, he's very, very invested in the outcome of the Supreme Court case on this matter.

But the State Department has really steadily messaged that a USA visa is a privilege, not a right.

And they're taking action all over the world to stop these birth tourism explorations and activities.

as the president has promised that they would since the beginning of this administration.

Yeah, Ben, the truth that you just referenced is probably the latest we have from the president on this topic, where he blasts the fake news media for sharing a plan that he's saying is not accurate and is not the real deal of what he has going on.