Ted Cruz: “We also have this phenomenon called birth tourism, where you…”

“You see people crossing the southern border, you see pregnant women crossing the southern border explicitly to. To give birth in America so their baby can be an American citizen. We also have this phenomenon called birth tourism, where you have people from foreign countries, people from China come to the United States when a woman happens to be eight or nine months pregnant. Yeah. You know, what Ted Cruz won't mention is that while, while that, of course, anecdotally has happened, and it theoretically could happen, immigration officers are trained to look for that.” (01:32–01:43)

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