The Trump administration is considering imposing tougher restrictions on pregnant foreign travelers entering the US, with White House deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller saying officials will take a “hard look” at the idea following the Supreme Court’s latest ruling on birthright citizenship.Speaking to Fox News, Miller said the administration would review immigration policies amid concerns over “birth tourism”, a term used when foreign citizens travel to the US to give birth so their children can get US citizenship.Asked if the administration was considering banning pregnant women from entering the country, Miller responded: “Well, what I’m saying, Jesse, is that you now have to think very carefully about who you let into your country, even on a temporary basis, because there is the potential, as you said, for birth tourism, well, they do. People come here on American soil just to have a child and that child becomes a citizen for life.“He added: “So, yes, you can’t have the kind of immigration programs you have in other countries when you can have a child here, and now that child is an American citizen. So, there are a lot of things we have to keep a close eye on, Jesse.”Miller also argued that children born to undocumented immigrants in the US could later provide financial support to family members abroad, saying they would be able to send welfare benefits to “support an entire family in the Third World”.The comments come days after the US Supreme Court ruled that a president cannot eliminate the 14th Amendment’s guarantee of birthright citizenship through an executive order. This decision was criticized by many Republicans. They included Representative Andy Ogles of Tennessee, who announced legislation called the “Anchors Away Act”. The proposed bill would bar certain pregnant foreign women from entering the US unless they are US citizens or lawful permanent residents.Announcing the proposal in a video posted on social media, Ogles said: “So, I have a bill; it would be called ‘Anchors Away,’ which, look, if you’re not a U.S. citizen, if you’re not a green card holder and you have a child on American soil, today, that child will be a U.S. citizen.”He said: “Under my bill, under my law, we fix that. … So in essence, what this bill does is, if you’re a pregnant woman, you can’t come to this country. You have to become a citizen, you have to live here, you have to become a green card holder. So if you are pregnant and you do not have any of these conditions, entry is not permitted.”The proposed legislation takes its name from the term “anchor babies”, a phrase used by immigration critics to describe children born to undocumented immigrants in the US.Republican Representative Lauren Boebert also reacted to the court’s decision, calling on the State Department to “immediately stop granting visas to pregnant applicants.”Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin later said the administration was willing to “look at” restrictions on pregnant travelers entering the country.The debate has also drawn attention to the scale of so-called birth tourism. According to a 2020 estimate from the Center for Immigration Studies, an organization that supports low immigration levels, 20,000 to 26,000 cases of birth tourism occur in the US annually. This represented less than one percent of the country’s 3.61 million births that year.