CT A.G.: It’s ‘a Hateful Fantasy’ that People Engage in Birth Tourism to Exploit Birthright Citizenship

On Tuesday’s broadcast of CNN’s “Laura Coates Live,” Connecticut Attorney General William Tong (D) argued that it’s “a hateful fantasy” that people exploit birthright citizenship by engaging in birth tourism — which the Justice Department under the Biden administration has acknowledged exists and has secured convictions of and guilty pleas from individuals related to their operation of birth tourism schemes — and stated that “I don’t see evidence of it.”

Host Laura Coates asked, [relevant exchange begins around 16:35] “[T]here is an argument being made that people are engaged in — and the phrase they use is ‘birth tourism’, that it undermines the core principle of birthright citizenship and instead is being exploited. How do you combat that legally in your suit?”

Tong responded, “I

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