Every government eventually reaches the point where people stop asking whether the law exists and begin asking whether anyone intends to enforce it. That is where we are today. Reports surfaced showing Mission Regional Medical Center in South Texas advertising maternity packages in Mexico through Spanish-language billboards and a website encouraging expectant mothers to travel to Texas to give birth.

The hospital has since removed the advertisements, claiming they were misunderstood, while Texas Governor Greg Abbott ordered an investigation into whether any laws or contractual obligations were violated. If the investigation concludes that the purpose was to market travel for birthright citizenship, then this is not simply a public relations problem. It is a legal problem, and the legal system must finally decide whether the law means what it says or whether it has become entirely optional.

Everyone knows birth tourism has existed for years. Entire businesses have been built around helping foreign nationals travel to countries that offer broad birthright citizenship. Yet governments have largely looked the other way, hoping the issue would remain politically untouchable.

Other developed nations that once had broad birthright citizenship changed course years ago. Ireland amended its constitution in 2004. Numerous European countries require that at least one parent be a citizen or lawful long-term resident before automatic citizenship is granted. They confronted the legal question instead of pretending it did not exist. Meanwhile, leftist American judges claim that foreigners have a right to enjoy protections intended for taxpaying citizens. Hospitals are businesses, and unfortunately, this hospital is merely profiting on a provision that is too blatant to be considered a loophole.

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