Another MAGA ally has called for forced sterilization of all noncitizen visitors traveling to the US.
By Chris Walker ,
July 1, 2026
STEPHEN MILLER
Deputy White House Chief of Staff
In the wake of the Supreme Court ruling on Tuesday to preserve birthright citizenship rights outlined in the 14th Amendment, White House advisor Stephen Miller suggested that the Trump administration may consider barring pregnant tourists or immigrants from entering the U.S. at all.
Miller, deputy chief of staff for policy and homeland security to President Donald Trump, spoke to Fox News’s Jesse Watters hours after the ruling was rendered
“You have to now think very carefully about who you let into your country, even on a temporary basis,” Miller said in response to a question on how the U.S. can “crack down” on so-called “birth tourism.”
In the wake of the Supreme Court ruling on Tuesday to preserve birthright citizenship rights outlined in the 14th Amendment, White House advisor Stephen Miller suggested that the Trump administration may consider barring pregnant tourists or immigrants from entering the U.S. at all.
Miller, deputy chief of staff for policy and homeland security to President Donald Trump, spoke to Fox News’s Jesse Watters hours after the ruling was rendered
“You have to now think very carefully about who you let into your country, even on a temporary basis,” Miller said in response to a question on how the U.S. can “crack down” on so-called “birth tourism.”
Miller claimed on the program that pregnant women are coming to the U.S., having children, and leaving their children in the U.S. while they return to their countries, supposedly so they can collect welfare checks from their child. After being prompted by Watters, Miller indicated that the administration is considering banning pregnant women from visiting the U.S.
“There’s a lot of things we’re going to have to take a hard look at,” Miller said.
The administration has already taken steps to, at the very least, increase scrutiny of pregnant people traveling to the U.S., as the Department of Justice (DOJ) has reportedly directed federal prosecutors to prioritize the supposed problem of birth tourism.
The DOJ “will zealously protect the sanctity of United States citizenship by investigating and prosecuting those who fraudulently exploit our immigration system,” a memo from the department stated.
Birth tourism — the practice of purposely traveling to another country to give birth so your child can secure citizenship — is considered rare in the U.S. The very concept feeds into the xenophobic “great replacement theory” frequently peddled by far right individuals like Miller — that immigrants or nonwhite individuals are part of a conspiracy to “replace” white people in the U.S.
One highly contested estimate on birth tourism claims that around 26,000 children are born annually in the U.S. as a result of the practice. Even if that figure is accurate, it would amount to fewer than 1 percent of all births in the country.
Shortly after the Supreme Court ruled to overturn Trump’s executive order on birthright citizenship, the president demanded that Congress take up the matter instead.
“We can easily make it up in Congress through Legislation, with the support of the President, that has now been determined during this process,” Trump claimed in a Truth Social post. “No long and unwieldy Constitutional Amendment is necessary!”
Based on the findings of the majority opinion of the Supreme Court case, it’s highly unlikely that the court would find a law passed by Congress on birthright citizenship acceptable or constitutional. Of the six justices who ruled against Trump’s executive order, only Brett Kavanaugh suggested that Congress potentially has the authority to pass legislation on birthright citizenship. The remaining five justices who ruled against the order indicated they did so based on the clear reading and intent of the 14th Amendment, not current U.S. code.
Meanwhile, MAGA influencers are pushing additional extreme policy changes in the wake of the ruling. Sean Davis, CEO of the right-wing news outlet The Federalist, said there are “several ways forward” to deal with the court’s decision.
Among them, Davis called for “nullification” from the states, wherein they “just stop issuing” birth certificates to children suspected of being born to non-citizens. Davis also called for the Trump administration to “pack the court” in order to relitigate the matter, and to “deny entry to all pregnant foreigners.”
Disturbingly, Davis also called for the “sterilization of all foreign visitors prior to entry” in response to the court’s actions — a policy that echoes the eugenics policies of Nazi Germany, which sterilized over 400,000 Germans in the name of a “pure” Aryan race.
And if those plans don’t work? “Dissolution of the Union,” Davis said.
Political observers have warned that despite the Supreme Court ruling to preserve birthright citizenship rights, Trump and his MAGA allies and advisers are unlikely to let go of the issue.
“The birthright issue is not going away. … Like Roe, this will be their fight for a generation. And if the Democrats just say ‘we won’ and ignore it, like Roe, the Republicans will eventually win,” The Nation’s Elie Mystal said.
MS NOW's Chris Hayes unmasks MAGA's new 'obsession' after major Supreme Court loss
Matthew Chapman
July 1, 2026
RAW STORY
President Trump, right, speaking with Chief Justice John Roberts after the president delivered his State of the Union address on Capitol Hill in Washington on Jan. 30. Photo: jonathan ernst/Reuters
No sooner did the Supreme Court strike down President Donald Trump's executive order abolishing birthright citizenship, than MAGA politicians and pundits suddenly developed a fixation with "birth tourism" — the idea, grossly exaggerated, that there are thousands of women coming to America eight or nine months pregnant, intending to give birth and get American citizenship for their child.
But there's a cynical logic at the heart of why they suddenly pivoted to this issue, MS NOW's Chris Hayes pointed out on Wednesday.
"The Supreme Court decided narrowly yesterday, way too narrowly, that the 14th Amendment of the Constitution means what it plainly says: if you're born in this country, you are a citizen of this country, you are American. That's it. No ifs, ands, or buts," said Hayes. In response, he said, there has been a "bizarre, histrionic freakout on the right about the great scourge of — wait for it, wait for it — pregnant women racing to the U.S. to have babies."
Hayes played a number of clips, including acting Attorney General Todd Blanche and Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin discussing the matter, and White House strategist Stephen Miller even entertaining the idea of a ban on foreign pregnant women entering the country on Fox News.
"They have fully invented a moral panic about birth tourism, something that's just not happening in large numbers, especially not in our post-Dobbs maternal mortality rate world that eclipses that of every other peer nation," said Hayes.
Nonetheless, he continued, the reason behind the fixation, and why even Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito harped about it in his "very weird, strange, actually morally repellent dissent yesterday," is that "they can't talk about the broader thing they want to do ... they want to talk about these edge cases."
Their actual goal, as laid out clearly in the overturned executive order, is to "selectively strip American citizenship from literally tens of millions of people in this country, tens of millions," said Hayes. "Your friends and your family members and your neighbors and your doctors and your nurses and the guy that serves you coffee, right? To redefine what it is to be American. That's what they're after."
Matthew Chapman
July 1, 2026
RAW STORY
President Trump, right, speaking with Chief Justice John Roberts after the president delivered his State of the Union address on Capitol Hill in Washington on Jan. 30. Photo: jonathan ernst/Reuters
No sooner did the Supreme Court strike down President Donald Trump's executive order abolishing birthright citizenship, than MAGA politicians and pundits suddenly developed a fixation with "birth tourism" — the idea, grossly exaggerated, that there are thousands of women coming to America eight or nine months pregnant, intending to give birth and get American citizenship for their child.
But there's a cynical logic at the heart of why they suddenly pivoted to this issue, MS NOW's Chris Hayes pointed out on Wednesday.
"The Supreme Court decided narrowly yesterday, way too narrowly, that the 14th Amendment of the Constitution means what it plainly says: if you're born in this country, you are a citizen of this country, you are American. That's it. No ifs, ands, or buts," said Hayes. In response, he said, there has been a "bizarre, histrionic freakout on the right about the great scourge of — wait for it, wait for it — pregnant women racing to the U.S. to have babies."
Hayes played a number of clips, including acting Attorney General Todd Blanche and Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin discussing the matter, and White House strategist Stephen Miller even entertaining the idea of a ban on foreign pregnant women entering the country on Fox News.
"They have fully invented a moral panic about birth tourism, something that's just not happening in large numbers, especially not in our post-Dobbs maternal mortality rate world that eclipses that of every other peer nation," said Hayes.
Nonetheless, he continued, the reason behind the fixation, and why even Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito harped about it in his "very weird, strange, actually morally repellent dissent yesterday," is that "they can't talk about the broader thing they want to do ... they want to talk about these edge cases."
Their actual goal, as laid out clearly in the overturned executive order, is to "selectively strip American citizenship from literally tens of millions of people in this country, tens of millions," said Hayes. "Your friends and your family members and your neighbors and your doctors and your nurses and the guy that serves you coffee, right? To redefine what it is to be American. That's what they're after."
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