Fact of the day: 7.5% of all births in the United States each year are from undocumented immigrant parents, or close to 300,000. Around 25,000 births per year are the result of “birth tourism”, taking advantage of America’s extremely lax and overly generous “birthright citizenship” law.

37 weeks pregnant woman from Nigeria 🇳🇬 tries to fly to the U.S. 🇺🇸 from the UK🇬🇧, but Sarah a UK officers stepped in.

Babies born in the UK don't automatically qualifies for British passport, but babies born in the U.S do automatically qualify for American passport. pic.twitter.com/CbUqujEODy

— Ozor Ndi Ozor (@OzorNdiOzor) June 25, 2026