Texas orders a hospital investigated for selling 'birth packages' to foreigners in Mexico
Governor Abbott told the state health agency to probe Mission Regional Medical Center over billboards in Mexico marketing US birth tourism, with referrals for civil and criminal charges.
- The billboards pitched foreign nationals on giving birth in America so the child is born a citizen.
- Abbott directed the agency to refer violations to the attorney general and to prosecutors.
- The target is Mission Regional Medical Center in south Texas.
Why it mattersThere is no smuggling here, only retail: a passport marketed on a billboard and delivered in a maternity ward.
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