{"id":369783,"date":"2026-07-11T21:34:15","date_gmt":"2026-07-11T21:34:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/369783\/"},"modified":"2026-07-11T21:34:15","modified_gmt":"2026-07-11T21:34:15","slug":"texas-rep-brian-harrison-lays-out-plan-to-make-birth-tourism-a-felony","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/369783\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas Rep Brian Harrison lays out plan to make birth tourism a felony"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Texas State Representative Brian Harrison calls for an immediate special session to make birth tourism a state-level felony. He urges Governor Greg Abbott to order state agencies to stop issuing birth certificates to non-citizens. Texas officials, including AG Ken Paxton, are already cracking down on companies that facilitate these activities, including &#8220;birth packages&#8221; advertised for as low as $4,000 to foreign nationals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Texas State Representative Brian Harrison calls for an immediate special session to make birth tourism a state-level felony.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":369784,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[129328,101094,3099,6944,1967,18653,27,29,28,105268],"class_list":["post-369783","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-birth-certificates","tag-birth-tourism","tag-brian-harrison","tag-governor-greg-abbott","tag-ken-paxton","tag-special-session","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-news","tag-texas-state-representative"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369783","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=369783"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369783\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/369784"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=369783"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=369783"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=369783"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}