10:00AM

10:05 – 10:22 (17mins) Ammon Blair
former Border Patrol agent and Army intelligence
Senior Fellow for the Texas Public Policy Foundation
for you regarding the growing birth tourism story and what it reveals about vulnerabilities in America’s immigration and border security system. 

Ammon can speak to the bigger border and national-security questions this raises:

• How are organized birth-tourism networks able to identify and exploit weaknesses in our visa and entry systems?
• What should border and consular officials be looking for?
• How much do we actually know about the scale of the industry? Federal data is limited, though outside estimates have put it in the tens of thousands of births annually.
• And what happens when immigration enforcement focuses only on illegal crossings while sophisticated actors exploit lawful ports of entry and visa programs?