# 119-hr-10447: American Citizenship Integrity Act

119-hr-10447, American Citizenship Integrity Act, is a 119th Congress bill sponsored by Rep. Mace, Nancy [R-SC-1] (R-SC); status introduced (as of 2026-09-26).

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## Facts
- Bill: 119-hr-10447
- Congress: 119
- Title: American Citizenship Integrity Act
- Status: introduced
- Introduced: 2026-09-16
- Sponsor: Rep. Mace, Nancy [R-SC-1] (R-SC)
- Cosponsors: 0
- Policy area: Immigration
- Touches household money: no
- Last recorded action: 2026-09-26

## Summary

**The American Citizenship Integrity Act would criminalize organized birth‑tourism trafficking** and expand immigration and criminal tools to block or strip U.S. citizenship gained through schemes that arrange births in the United States. - Creates a federal offense for knowingly recruiting, transporting, harboring, or facilitating non‑permanent‑resident aliens to have a child born in the U.S. with the intent to obtain U.S. citizenship. Penalties reach up to 15 years in prison for individual offenses and up to 30 years plus criminal and civil forfeiture for organized schemes involving three or more covered aliens or participants. - Adds a new ground of inadmissibility when a consular officer or the Secretary of Homeland Security determines an alien sought admission to obtain U.S. citizenship for a child under 8 U.S.C. 1182(a)(11). It also makes convictions or admissions tied to such schemes a basis for denaturalization of naturalized citizens under amended 8 U.S.C. 1451. - Would create an American Citizenship Integrity Interagency Task Force co‑chaired by the Attorney General and the Secretary of Homeland Security to coordinate investigations and prosecutions, develop guidance for consular officers and adjudicators, work with foreign governments, and report annually with counts of births to non‑permanent‑resident parents, inadmissibility findings, prosecutions, denaturalizations, and policy recommendations. - Authorizes the Attorney General to appoint an Assistant U.S. Attorney in each district to coordinate investigations, prosecutions under the new offense and related fraud statutes, and denaturalization proceedings, with a 180‑day deadline to comply.

## Provisions PRIA read

- Stronger federal coordination and prosecutions: benefit, low. If enacted, the bill would create an American Citizenship Integrity Task Force within 180 days, co-chaired by the Attorney General and the Homeland Security Secretary. The Task Force would coordinate detection, investigation, guidance, and international work on organized birth-tourism fraud. It wou…
- New federal crime for birth tourism: cost, medium. If enacted, the bill would make it a federal crime to knowingly recruit, transport, harbor, or otherwise help a noncitizen (except lawful permanent residents) enter the U.S. so a child born here can get citizenship. The basic penalty would be fines and up to 15 years in prison. If the conduct is pa…
- Denaturalization for birth-tourism fraud: cost, low. If enacted, the bill would make a conviction or an admission for specified birth-tourism fraud serve as strong evidence to revoke naturalization. A naturalized citizen convicted of, or admitting to, acts that meet the new offense or related fraud provisions would face a presumption that they lacked…
- Visa and entry denials for birth tourism: cost, low. If enacted, the bill would add a new ground of inadmissibility for people whom a consular officer or the Secretary of Homeland Security finds are seeking admission to obtain U.S. citizenship for a child by having the child born in the United States. That finding could be used to refuse a visa or de…

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- 119-hr-4706: Protecting Our Farms and Homes from China Act
- 119-hr-3756: FISH Act of 2025
- 119-hr-833: Educational Choice for Children Act of 2025
- 119-hr-5457: Strengthening Agency Management and Oversight of Software Assets Act
- 119-hr-9298: Stopping Harmful and Outrageous Torts Act
- 119-hr-740: Veterans’ ACCESS Act of 2025

## Sources
- [119-hr-10447 on Congress.gov](https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/10447)

## Related
- [119-hr-4706: Protecting Our Farms and Homes from China Act](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-hr-4706)
- [119-hr-3756: FISH Act of 2025](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-hr-3756)
- [119-hr-833: Educational Choice for Children Act of 2025](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-hr-833)
- [119-hr-5457: Strengthening Agency Management and Oversight of Software Assets Act](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-hr-5457)
- [119-hr-9298: Stopping Harmful and Outrageous Torts Act](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-hr-9298)
- [119-hr-740: Veterans’ ACCESS Act of 2025](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-hr-740)
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Source: PRIA, https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-hr-10447 (as of 2026-09-26).