Another term referencing the opposition of the citizenship clause has been birth tourism.

Birth tourism from Turkey is also reportedly popular.

Reports surfaced of Chinese women giving birth to their second child overseas, a practice known as birth tourism.

Birth tourism is defined as traveling to a country that grants birth citizenship to the newborn child.

Congress representatives such as Phil Gingrey have tried to put an end to birth tourism, who said these people are "gaming the system".

Birth tourism can be a lucrative business for immigrants who facilitate the travel and birthing process for their former countrymen.

Circumvention through "birth tourism"

The Turkish-owned Marmara Hotel group offers a "birth tourism package" that includes accommodations at their Manhattan branch.

The situation came to a boiling point in early 2012, with Hong Kongers taking to the street to protest the influx of birth tourism from mainland China.

The Nigerian media is also focused on birth tourism in the United States and recently published an article titled, "American Agitations Threaten a Nigerian Practice."

"Birth tourism" is a term for travelling to a country that practices birthright citizenship in order to give birth there, so that the child will be a citizen of the destination country.

On 25 June 2011 a small protest was held by about ten mothers begging on the street for the attention of Chow regarding the mainland Chinese mothers birth tourism issues with hospital capacities.

When repeatedly asked by the host for any evidence of this, Gohmert did not provide substantiation for either the ex-FBI agent story or the airline passenger story, but gave a description of a Washington Post article, which described so-called "birth tourism" packages, mainly directed at Chinese tourists.