Sec. 7. Birth tourism taskforce

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Title II, Chapter 9 of the Immigration and Nationality Act is amended to add a new section 295 to read as follows: There is established a Taskforce (hereinafter referred to as the Taskforce ) within the Department of Homeland Security, that shall include U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Homeland Security Investigations, and U.S. Customs and Border Protection, that shall: investigate individuals, organizations and entities that create schemes and run operations to facilitate in and enforce laws to prevent an alien from seeking to undermine the sovereignty of the United States by attempting to enter, entering, or remaining physically in the United States, its territories or outlying possessions, for the purpose of giving birth to a child on United States soil; and refer cases to the Department of Justice for criminal prosecutions.

The Taskforce shall produce training materials for local law enforcement on the investigation and detection of criminal offenses described in subsection (a). The Taskforce shall coordinate with the Department of Agriculture, the Office of Inspector General of the Department of Agriculture, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the United States Marshals Service, U.S. Customs and Border Protection, and other agencies, as appropriate. On the date that is one year after the date of enactment of this Act, and annually thereafter, the Taskforce shall submit to the appropriate committees of Congress, a report on, for the previous year— the number of charges that were filed for violations of laws described in subsection (a), disaggregated by the law alleged to have been violated, the State in which the violation was alleged to have occurred, and the number of convictions; and the number of investigations of violations of laws described in subsection

(a)for which charges were not filed. For purposes of this section, the term appropriate committees includes— the Senate Committee on the Judiciary; the House Committee on the Judiciary; the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee; the House Committee on Homeland Security; the House Foreign Affairs Committee; the Senate Foreign Relations Committee; and the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee. .