President of Bolivia Rodrigo Paz condemned socialism after it ravaged his country over the past two decades during his debut speech at the United Nations General Assembly on Thursday.

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FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—Sen. Tim Scott, R-S.C., is introducing legislation to end commercial birth tourism in the United States, a move that could cut off a pipeline that foreign nationals use to gain citizenship for their children.

After President Donald Trump’s attempt to end birth tourism was struck down by the Supreme Court, Scott is taking a different approach.

The Birth Tourism Elimination Act seeks to prohibit foreign nationals from using temporary travel visas to give birth inside the country for the purpose of obtaining citizenship for their children. It will also target companies that assist and charge foreign nationals seeking help facilitating their travel.

“American citizenship is not for sale, and foreign nationals have no right to buy citizenship for their children,” Scott said in a statement provided to the Daily Signal. 

“The birth tourism industry has disrespected what it means to be an American by selling and profiting from the freedoms and values that men and women across our country died for,” he continued. “We are blessed to live in the greatest nation on God’s green Earth, and my bill makes it clear that our temporary travel programs cannot be exploited for the purpose of obtaining American citizenship.” 

Following the Supreme Court’s July ruling against Trump’s executive order restricting automatic birthright citizenship for children born in the United States to foreign nationals, Scott announced he would introduce legislation to “end the ‘birth tourism’ industry once and for all.” 

The Supreme Court ruled that children born in the United States to parents who are unlawfully or temporarily present are granted citizenship and are “subject to the jurisdiction” of the United States at birth. Instead of challenging who qualifies for birthright citizenship, Scott’s new legislation codifies the State Department’s 2020 restriction on using B visas for birth tourism and targets the commercial operations that facilitate it.

According to the Center for Immigration Studies, roughly 25,000 children are born in the United States each year to foreign nationals and receive U.S. citizenship at birth.

You Win USA Vacation Services Corp. is just one example of a company that assists foreign families, primarily Chinese citizens, charging them tens of thousands of dollars to organize their travel and birth in the United States. According to the Department of Justice, in 2019, the organization was charged with assisting more than 500 Chinese births and collecting $3 million in international wire transfers from China over two years. 

Border czar Tom Homan agrees that this is not a new problem, calling it a “national security threat.” 

“Birth tourism has been a problem for the three decades that I’ve been enforcing immigration law, especially from Russia and China, where hundreds of thousands of their nationals come to this country just to give birth,” Homan said on Fox News ahead of the July Supreme Court hearing. 

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The United Nations is bloated, duplicative, and inefficient, according to UN Ambassador Mike Waltz. But despite its flaws, he thinks the organization is worth saving.

“You need one place in the world where everybody can come and talk, and at least talk,” he told the Daily Signal in a phone call from the 2026 United Nations General Assembly in New York City. “I’ve learned as a diplomat, especially in some of these war-torn environments with 1000-year-old animosities, just getting both sides in the room is often a huge first step.”

Waltz has seen the benefit of the UN in action with the war between Ukraine and Russia.

“At the beginning of the president’s term, there was no one talking from either side,” he said. “Now we’ve had multiple rounds of pulling them together, and we’ll see. Hopefully, by the end of this year, we can get both [Volodymyr] Zelenskyy and [Vladimir] Putin at least in the same room to begin a conversation, so the president’s willing to engage anyone anywhere to try to craft a deal for peace, and for all of its flaws, the UN is a key place to do that.”

The same is true with the Iran conflict, he said. President Donald Trump said U.S. and Iranian officials held talks on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly amid the two countries’ more than six-month-long war.

“It’s the only place where you get 150 prime ministers, presidents, world leaders, finance ministers all here at the same time, and the interesting thing about it is, you can have those conversations even with our adversaries,” he said. “We’ll see how it unfolds.”

“It’s notable that it was the first contact since the ceasefire with Iran, since they violated it by attacking international shipping and fell apart,” he said. “But it was a good kind of reengagement. I’ll let the president decide where it goes next.”

The UN also helps with burden sharing, part of America First foreign policy, Waltz said. A UN force has gone into Gaza, preventing the U.S. from having to send troops. UN troops are taking care of gangs in Haiti to prevent that instability from spreading.

“We are a generous nation,” he said. “We do help out people in need in situations like earthquakes and tsunamis and famines, and there’s a role for that as well.”

Waltz has been working to reduce the UN budget, slashing $1 billion in the past six months.

“The UN’s done nothing but grow for 80 years,” he said. “We’ve seen a tripling of their budget in the last 25 years. I would argue strongly we haven’t seen a tripling of peace break out around the world.”

The U.S. is trying to return the UN to the basics.

“We came in here determined to reform and and drive efficiencies,” Waltz said, “and we’ve by all accounts, achieved some historic success.”

As the UN searches for a new secretary general, Waltz said he wants the role to be filled by someone who takes after NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte.

“We need that same kind of leadership for the UN,” he said, “so we’re looking for the right leader from anywhere in the world, man, woman. Really, we’re focused on merit, and to get this organization really involved in ending wars, bringing peace, and helping President Trump in that regard on the world stage.”

Many more cost-saving reforms are to come at the UN, Waltz said.

“The average UN civil servant makes 120% of what an American civil servant makes,” he said. “The main UN locations around the world are in some of the most expensive cities in the world: New York, Geneva, and Vienna. Yet the focus of a lot of the UN’s work is in some of the most difficult and developing and war-torn places in the world.”

“Let’s get people out to where they’re needed, not in these plush cities in the United States and Europe,” he said.

Fifty pro-life leaders released a letter on Thursday calling on FDA Commissioner nominee Dr. Heidi Overton to revoke the Biden administration mail-order abortion scheme.

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Police say an intruder kicked in the front door of a Houston, Texas, home Wednesday afternoon and was shot by an elderly homeowner.

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Mariah Thomas, 28, pleaded guilty to first-degree endangering the welfare of a child resulting in death after claiming she mistook the oven for a crib.

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