This is a well written long very important news article but worth your time to study and learn about one of our most important national problems.

 

Strained by illegals' 'free' health care, Texas hospital may have turned to 'birth tourism' to make up for the losses

A 2016 S&P report said the south Texas hospital was suffering from significant uncompensated care.

Monica Showalter | July 9, 2026 www.americanthinker.com

Seems everyone is piling on against a Texas hospital located in the Rio Grande Valley for its billboard advertising in Mexico for 'birth tourism.' 

President Trump has even asked the Supreme Court for a rehearing after its bad decision affirming this kind of birthright citizenship following news of the hospital's advertising campaign.

According to NewsNation:

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott has ordered an investigation into a hospital near the Mexican border over concerns it was selling a path to American citizenship through childbirth packages.

The hospital advertised the packages across the border in Mexico but insists it did nothing illegal.

The billboard made it look almost as simple as booking a hotel room: Come to South Texas, have your baby and pay one set price.

A natural delivery started at $3,950, and a C-section started at $5,525.

The ad included a number for Mission Regional Medical Center and sent families to a website called “Have My Baby in Texas.”

Mission Regional Medical Center in the Rio Grande Valley confirmed the campaign was its own and reportedly began in 2021.

Mission Regional Medical Center offered full 'birth packages' to potential customers, despite Mexico itself having excellent and available health care at reasonable prices, not mentioning that their deal offered a little extra with guaranteed U.S. citizenship for those born in Texas, at a price that was reportedly cheaper than what other hospitals were charging in the U.S (as well as Mexico.) Many people online claimed that the pricing was less than what U.S. pregnant women are charged, perhaps to win more customers from the Mexican market, which, again, has good local health care at far more affordable prices, and thus, is a competitor, too.

Obviously, something is way wrong with hospitals trawling for business from the Mexican market, not offering a better product, but for the dangled, wink, wink, benefit of American citizenship, which shouldn't be theirs to give.

The Wayback Machine indicates it wasn't just Mission Regional enticing customers from abroad, by the way, but two other Texas hospitals, Knapp Medical Center, in Weslaco, and Harlingen Medical Center in Harlingen. The last screenshot, taken July 4 this year before it was shut down, had only Mission Regional and Knapp, both now owned by Prime Healthcare

Some screenshots:

 

 

From 2023:

 

From July 4, 2026:

 

To be honest, this isn't the worst birth tourism scheme I have ever heard of.

The creepy baby farm of Arcadia, California, where some Chinese billionaire just sent his sperm for surrogates in the states to have his babies, and then hundreds of these babies turning up in some mansion for who knows what purpose; or the Red Chinese army dispatching women to the Marianas to have their babies and then bring them back to Beijing for indoctrination on how to destroy America, strikes me as far worse abuses.

This is likely a convenience-citizenship for relatively wealthy Mexicans to return to Mexico, yet have the option of living here if they like, or having ease of crossing the border, or possibly obtaining benefits, though it seems less likely with this birth-tourism crowd as they are more affluent. Yes, it shouldn't be going on, but it's not the most grotesque manifestation of birth tourism and citizenship abuse.

What's disturbing is the potential story of the medical establishment as a border hospital, having to take in thousands of illegals with no payments.

I looked into one of these hospitals, Mission Regional, and found a sorry-looking 2016 credit report from Standard & Poor's which indicated that the hospital was getting its ratings cut, which affects its ability to borrow money, based on having to treat thousands of illegal border crossers for free:

NEW YORK (S&P Global Ratings) May 20, 2016--S&P Global Rating lowered its

long-term rating on Hidalgo County Health Services Corp., Texas' $26.7 million

combined series 2005, 2007, and 2008 bonds, issued for Mission Regional

Medical Center (Mission) five notches to 'B-' from 'BB+' and removed the

ratings from CreditWatch. The outlook is negative.

 

"Mission was placed on CreditWatch with negative implications after fiscal

2015's substantial $12.5 million operating loss, and our expectation that the

medical center would breach its minimum debt service coverage covenant,

resulting in an event of default under the bond documents," said S&P Global

Ratings analyst Kevin Holloran.

 

Mission's reliance on supplemental sources of funding, including Medicaid

disproportionate share (DSH) and uncompensated care (UC) programs, were

largely responsible for improved (better than breakeven) financial performance

in fiscal 2013 and fiscal 2014, but without which, resulted in substantial

losses in fiscal 2015.

Uncompensated care? Yes, an open border means lots and lots of uncompensated care. 

While it may not be good for a hospital to seek birth-tourism from abroad as its new profit-center, it's seems pretty understandable that a hospital in illegals-flooded south Texas might do that out of desperation.

With illegals sending word back home at how good the health care is in the states, and communication channels already established through Mexican society, it might make sense to a marketing team to try to scarf up some of the wealthier parts of the Mexican market to make up the losses, the competitive advantage being U.S. citizenship on offer.

This, obviously, is just an impression from the S&P report and news reports about hospitals under severe financial strain from illegals seeking free treatment and hospitals being forced to give it, often without compensation.

But it would make sense if this is what it seems to be.

The bad thing is, they can offer birth-package discounts to Mexican customers, in order to draw that market in, but they would have to pass the costs of those discounts onto their domestic paying customers, even if the discounts were not nearly as deep as having to offer care for free to full-blown indigent illegals. 

So from two ends, Americans pay. I am not sure the hospital did anything wrong, either, given the birth tourism incentive embedded within the Supreme Court ruling. They may have just been taking their best option to survive. All the same, it disturbs Americans, and for many, it drives the point home about U.S. citizenship now being handed out like a consumer durable.

One can only hope that the Supreme Court will take up President Trump's requested rehearing. If this is what it takes to knock some sense into the more weak-kneed members of the Court, it's a good thing.

 

Providing higher education benefits to illegal alien students that are not provided for citizen students is abhorrent. The 5th CCA ruled properly to end this special benefit for illegal aliens.

 

Federal appeals court upholds ban on states providing in-state tuition benefits to illegal aliens

Portions of the Texas Education Code previously allowed illegal migrants to receive the discounted tuition price as long as they reside in the state.

By Misty Severi justthenews.com 7-10-26

The 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals upheld a ruling Thursday that states are prohibited under federal law from offering in-state tuition to illegal migrants at public universities, a major win for states like Texas trying to fight the scourge of illegal migration.

The ruling comes after the Justice Department sued multiple states over the issue, including California, Kansas, New Jersey and Texas. Portions of the Texas Education Code previously allowed illegal migrants to receive the discounted tuition price as long as they reside in the state. 

The order comes after Texas and the Justice Department agreed to have a federal judge block the program. A judge did sign off on a permanent injunction on lower tuition rates for undocumented students in June 2025.

The three-judge panel said in a 2-1 ruling that they could not intervene because federal law blocks the Dream Act and that a lower court was correct in ruling that two advocacy groups, a community college, and a student could not intervene and undo the consent judgment and dismissed the remaining claims for want of appellate jurisdiction.

"The district court correctly denied intervention after concluding that they could not plausibly defend the preemption claim," the appeals court wrote. 

Texas GOP Gov. Greg Abbott celebrated the ruling in a social media post, describing it as a "major victory" for the state and the "rule of law."  

"Texas and the Trump DOJ just secured another major victory for the rule of law," Abbott said on X. "The Fifth Circuit upheld the END of in-state tuition for illegal immigrants in Texas."

 

Our Nation's voting laws and regulations must be regulated. The U. S. Senate must pass The Save Act now!

 

Australian alien arrested after investigation finds she illegally voted in two federal elections

Denise Nataly Migliore is accused of falsely claiming U.S. citizenship to cast ballots in the 2022 and 2024 elections.

By Katherine Pugh justthenews.com 7-8-26

An Australian alien has been arrested after an Immigration and Customs Enforcement investigation revealed that she illegally voted in two United States elections.

The United States Homeland Security Department announced Denise Nataly Migliore’s arrest in a press release on Tuesday. Migliore — who is a lawful permanent resident from Australia — is charged with intentionally making false U.S. citizenship claims in order to register to vote in a federal election, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Louisiana.

 Denise Nataly Migliore (Department of Homeland Security)

Migliore allegedly voted in the 2022 and 2024 elections. On June 11, she was indicted on charges of illegally voting in an election and making false statements in order to register to vote in the Eastern District of Louisiana.

Then, on July 1, Homeland Security Investigations arrested Migliore at the New Orleans’ federal courthouse.

“Our message to aliens who vote in American elections is clear: we will find you, arrest you, and you will face the consequences, including criminal charges and deportation,” Acting Assistant Secretary Lauren Bis said in a statement. “Only Americans should be electing American leaders.”

HSI and the FBI investigated the case.

 

Citizenship is a sovereign right of Nations and must be respected. 'Birth tourism' is nothing but a 'commodity'.

 

Birth tourism is fraud and needs to stop

While the Supreme Court (wrongly) failed to stop birthright citizenship, Congress can and should act to block the travesty that is birth tourism.

Susan Quinn | July 8, 2026 www.americanthinker.com

SCOTUS may have decided incorrectly to approve birthright citizenship, but it also disrespected our Constitution by allowing birth tourism to continue. Although there are some folks who will continue to fight the overall concept of birthright citizenship, our legislators are thankfully already pursuing the banning of birth tourism.

Birth tourism refers to a pregnant woman coming to this country specifically to ensure that her baby is born here and will automatically be a U.S. citizen.

In his dissent to the decision, Justice Samuel Alito pointed out that birth tourism has serious national security implications:

Suppose that a person’s only connection to this country is that he was born here to a mother who was present just long enough to give birth and then quickly returned to her native country. Suppose that country is a strategic adversary or enemy of the United States. Suppose the child never visited the United States while growing up and was inculcated with hatred of this country. According to the Court, that person is a citizen of the United States. He can enter and leave the country as he pleases. He can travel the world on a United States passport. Even if he plots to harm this country, he cannot be deprived of his status as a citizen, at least under current precedent.

Allowing these women to enter this country is a travesty. It devalues the principle of American citizenship because its purpose is to exploit this loophole for personal gain, with our country having no way of knowing whether these tourists truly want their children to be U.S. citizens, complete with all the ensuing benefits. When they return to their home country (usually China), the mothers could also have gleaned all types of information that could challenge our national security.

Part of the problem is that companies have been established to streamline the birth tourism process. For example, a company called “Have My Baby” promised to handle all logistical needs and provide maternity services from start to finish for these foreigners.

To tackle these despicable businesses, Rep. Brandon Gill (R-TX) has been appointed to the new Task Force on Defending Constitutional Rights and Exposing Institutional Abuses:

It should appall every American to know that there is a thriving birth tourism economy on our soil, perpetuated by foreign nationals who undermine our sovereignty and have no regard for our rule of law,’ said Rep. Brandon Gill, R-Texas, in a press release.

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Gill and House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform Chairman James Comer, R-Ky., last week sent letters to four U.S. entities and businesses ‘that are engaged in and profit from birth tourism.’ Seeking company documents, the lawmakers accuse the delivery centers of exploiting birthright citizenship by ‘explicitly marketing their maternity services to foreign expectant mothers who take advantage of the U.S. immigration system to give birth in the U.S., which gives their child U.S. citizenship.

One way to deal with these fraudulent attempts is to screen visitors, particularly from China, for their intentions for coming to this country. If they misrepresent themselves on their visa applications, claiming they are coming only as tourists and not to give birth, that’s fraud.

How significant is this problem? The Center for Immigration Studies documents 70,000 births to temporary visitors in 2023:

‘Furthermore, if we assume, based on past experience, that births equal about 2 percent of the total temporary visitor population each year, then there have been close to 500,000 births to temporary visitors over the past decade,’ the think tank reported.

Colin McDonald, the DOJ’s assistant attorney general for fraud enforcement, has been passionate about punishing those pursuing birth tourism and is looking for the organizations abetting those activities. Three cases that he has prosecuted were (1) Michael Wei Yueh Li and Jing Dong were sentenced to 41 months in prison, having charged tens of thousands of dollars to customers; (2) Ibrahim Aksakal spent 27 months in prison for a birth tourism scheme; and (3) Chao “Edwin” Chen whose 100 employees assisted 500 customers in traveling to the U.S, was sentenced to 37 months in prison.

In a different strategy, some legislators have insisted that women should be tested for pregnancy before they enter the country, and prohibited from entering if they are, but that approach may be considered an invasion of privacy.

With the commitment to stop this abuse of our immigration system, we can only hope that a remedy will soon be identified. It’s time to demonstrate the proper respect and honor that U.S. citizenship deserves.