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The acting attorney general, Todd Blanche, has said federal prosecutors and law enforcement officers will focus on combating so-called birth tourism - which involves tourists, temporary visitors, or undocumented immigrants traveling to the US primarily to give birth and secure birthright citizenship for their children.

What did Blanche say? There's other things ... the federal government can do in the visa process, and the application process, to try to minimize or limit the opportunity of folks coming here not to visit, and not to do what they're saying they're doing on the tourist visa, but just to have a baby that can then be a US citizen. What we have to do as Department of Justice is make sure our agents ... and the FBI are focused on stopping that."