“I have a bill, the SAFE KIDS Act, to combat the exploitation of U.S. surrogacy laws for birthright citizenship,” Scott said on X. “I have been fighting visa-free loopholes in U.S. territories participating in surrogacy schemes.”
“My Barring American Citizenship by Keeping Out Foreign Fraudsters (BACK OFF) Act, which would put a stop to the practice of birth tourism by adversaries like China and Russia, is a good first step,” Cornyn posted.
Immigration and human rights groups, in contrast, celebrated the Supreme Court’s ruling, while stressing that birthright citizenship is guaranteed by the Constitution and that the interpretation of that guarantee including nearly all people born on U.S. soil is both longstanding and reaffirmed by Tuesday’s decision.
“While not legally groundbreaking, today’s decision is nonetheless historic in its clear confirmation of well-settled law that the Fourteenth Amendment’s Citizenship Clause guarantees citizenship to children born in the United States regardless of their parents’ immigration status,” Jeff Joseph, president of the American Immigration Lawyers Association, said in a statement.
