A South Texas hospital has been openly advertising maternity services directly to pregnant women living outside the U.S., encouraging them to travel across the border to give birth at its facility.
Mission Regional Medical Center, located in Mission, Texas, has been promoting maternity packages to international patients, including through reported Spanish-language billboards targeting families in Latin America.
One billboard, reported and translated by the social media account Right Angle News Network, advertises “birth packages” at the facility, including a vaginal birth option for $3,950 and a cesarean option for $5,525.
BREAKING – Hospitals in the U.S. are advertising in Latin American countries, offering “birth packages” of up to $5,000 to foreigners to help them give birth in border states like Texas, allowing their children to be born as U.S. citizens following the new SCOTUS ruling. pic.twitter.com/ZQD0cVBlPN
— Right Angle News Network (@Rightanglenews) July 4, 2026
The facility previously promoted its services to foreigners on its social media page, with one post from July 2023 saying, “Are you pregnant, living abroad, and looking to welcome your baby in South Texas? Look no further!”
The advertisement invites expectant mothers to learn about the hospital’s maternity packages and says that “thousands of families choose to have their baby with us each year.”
Mission Regional Medical Center also provides a toll-free phone number for prospective international patients and markets itself with the slogan, “Mission Regional Medical Center, From the beginning with you!”
Another translated post from the hospital in January 2023 encourages expectant mothers traveling to the U.S. to “Reserve your maternity package today.”
The marketing campaign comes as concerns over birth tourism have intensified following the U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling last week in Trump v. Barbara, in which the Court held that children born in the U.S. to parents who are unlawfully or temporarily present in the country are citizens at birth under the Fourteenth Amendment’s Citizenship Clause.
The hospital’s outreach to expectant mothers abroad also comes as its 2024 Community Health Needs Assessment identifies “undocumented immigrants” as a “vulnerable” population in the Rio Grande Valley, noting that immigration laws, language barriers, transportation, and lack of insurance are obstacles to obtaining healthcare.
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Kaitlin Housler is a reporter at The Tennessee Star and The Star News Network.
Photo “Mission Regional Medical Center” by Mission Regional Medical Center.
