Overview
- HHSC submitted a referral to the Texas attorney general on Tuesday naming Mission Regional Medical Center and Knapp Medical Center after an investigation into online and billboard ads that promoted fixed‑price ‘birth packages’ for foreign nationals.
- Mission Regional acknowledged its maternity marketing materials are no longer in use and said it will cooperate with state and local officials, while the linked website HaveMyBabyInTexas.com was taken offline.
- HHSC told the attorney general the two facilities are affiliated with the Prime Healthcare Foundation and asked for legal review of possible licensing, billing or immigration‑related fraud.
- Federal agencies including CBP, ICE/HSI, the DOJ and the FBI have stepped up enforcement and investigations focused on facilitators and criminal networks that arrange birth‑tourism trips and coach visa misrepresentation.
- The dispute follows a June Supreme Court decision limiting executive changes to birthright citizenship and raises immediate questions about state enforcement powers, potential civil or criminal actions by the OAG, and broader impacts on hospitals, patients and border communities.