CBS, NBC Whine Over Trump Birth Tourism Executive Order

Jorge Bonilla
August 6th, 2026 11:30 PM

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On Thursday, President Donald Trump signed a new executive order banning birth tourism, among other types of what may be perceived as improper grants of birthright citizenship. The Elitist Media Evening News took exception to these orders, which come after the Supreme Court opinion striking down the previous birthright citizenship executive order.

Watch as the CBS Evening News casts a shadow on the executive order, with Weijia Jiang playing the “without evidence” card on birth tourism:

 

 

CBS EVENING NEWS

8/6/26

6:36 PM

MATT GUTMAN: Breaking news now from The White House. President Trump doubling down in his fight against birthright citizenship. The Supreme Court just weeks ago struck down the president's 2025 executive order denying U.S. citizenship to babies born to undocumented parents. Tonight, he signed two new orders. Our Weijia Jiang is at The White House. Weijia, so if the Supreme Court just struck down this measure, how does the administration plan to enforce it now?

WEIJIA JIANG: Well, good evening to you, Matt. Tonight, legal experts are already questioning whether the administration can implement these orders after that Supreme Court decision in June. Today, President Trump called the ruling very unfortunate and said they have to make adjustments. The justices confirmed that the 14th amendment means everyone born in the United States is an American citizen at birth. Now, Trump wants to restrict automatic citizenship for certain categories of people, including babies born to parents with links to foreign embassies and anyone considered an alien enemy of the country. Another order targets what the administration calls birth tourists, those who allegedly obtain U.S. visas for the sole purpose of giving birth while here. Trump claimed hundreds of thousands take advantage of thousands take advantage of birth tourism, without providing data or evidence, Matt.

GUTMAN: Weijia, thank you.

Here’s the paragraph in the executive order that elicited the "without evidence” remark:

Birth tourism operators use deceptive advertisements and inducements to entice foreign nationals to travel to the United States for the purpose of giving birth on American soil.  They promise citizenship; access to public benefits; and short-term stays in specialized facilities, hotels, or rentals, but often fail to deliver on these promises.  These operators coach their clients to misrepresent the purpose and duration of their travel to consular and border officials to obtain visas authorizing entry into the United States.  Failure to appropriately combat these schemes has resulted in thriving industries around the world that profit by enabling the evasion of American immigration laws to obtain citizenship and other immigration benefits for foreign visitors, and the exploitation of the women who travel here for purposes of giving birth.  

Just because the administration didn’t cite specific instances of documented birth tourism in the executive order doesn’t mean that it didn’t happen. A 10-second Google search yielded this 2018 NBC article titled “Birth tourism brings Russian baby boom to Miami,” and this 2015 NBC article titled “Feds Raid California 'Maternity Hotels' for Birth Tourists.” To put a fine point on it:

Southern California apartment complexes that doubled as "maternity hotels" for Chinese women who want made-in-America babies were raided early Tuesday, capping an unprecedented federal sting operation, officials said.

NBC News was on the scene as Homeland Security agents swept into The Carlyle, a luxury property in Irvine, California, which housed pregnant women and new moms who allegedly forked over $40,000 to $80,000 to give birth in the United States.

"I am doing this for the education of the next generation," one of the women told NBC News.

There is an overabundance of readily available evidence of the existence of birth tourism, which proves that it has been a problem for a long time. The use of the “without evidence” stratagem is intended to cast the birthright tourism claim as false.

NBC took a different route, citing activist groups critical of the executive order:

 

 

NBC NIGHTLY NEWS

8/6/26

6:38 PM

TOM LLAMAS: Staying in Washington, President Trump with a new push tonight to restrict birth right citizenship following his defeat at the Supreme Court. The president announcing a crackdown on birth tourism including denying Visas to pregnant women. Gabe Gutierrez is at the white house.

GABE GUTIERREZ: Tonight, President Trump is trying a new way to restrict birthright citizenship and crack down on so-called birth tourism by denying visas to some pregnant women.

DONALD TRUMP: Very big. Big crackdowns and this will give us the right to do it in a much more forceful manner.

GUTIERREZ: In June, the Supreme Court narrowly shot down the president's previous attempt to deny automatic citizenship to children of noncitizens born in the U.S., ruling the broad executive order he signed at the beginning of his second term was unconstitutional because it violated the Fourth Amendment.

TRUMP: It was close- but a very, very unfortunate decision. So we’re making adjustments. Because it’s very unfair.

GUTIERREZ: These new executive orders are more narrow, including applying to children born of foreign diplomatic staff working on behalf of another government while in the U.S., children who belong to federally declared terrorist groups, and children born of mothers who enter the U.S. solely for the purpose of having a child on U.S. soil, known as birth tourism.

TRUMP: They’ve taken birthright citizenship and they’ve made a joke out of it. (VIDEO SWIPE) They’re buying their way in. And we’re not going to let it happen.

GUTIERREZ: The White House calling it a “broken system” allowing foreigners access to U.S. government benefits.

STEPHEN MILLER: If you’re telling a consular officer you’re here as a tourist, but your true purpose and intent is to go to a baby mill, give birth and try to mint an American citizen while you’re here, then you’re committing a fraud against the American government.

GUTIERREZ: But tonight, LULAC responding the 14th amendment is not a policy preference.

LLAMAS: And Gabe, tonight, we’re already hearing from potential legal challengers to the president's actions?

GUTIERREZ: Yes, Tom, several groups are looking through these executive orders tonight. The ACLU tells us no matter how many executive orders President Trump signs, birthright remains the law of the land. Tom?

LLAMAS: Gabe Gutierrez for us.

NBC’s approach was not to beclown itself with "without evidence”, but to delegitimize the executive order with activist quotes- closing out with a defiant quote from the ACLU. It was similar to CBS in that it didn’t address the substance of birth tourism. 

ABC may have come out of looking the best by simply filing no report at all. World News Tonight chose instead to fill that A-block time with Miss North Carolina USA getting stripped of her crown over unspecified "conduct over an extended period of time." 

ABC may yet report this executive order, most likely doing so in a manner similar to their colleagues. That is to say, with disdain for any effort to enforce the borders of the United States of America and end the scourge of birth tourism.

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