Dr. Wladimir Lorentz, founder of the Miami-based birth tourism company “Have My Baby in Miami,” invoked his Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination when a House Oversight Committee task force asked him directly how many foreign nationals had used his business to give birth on U.S. soil.
Texas Representative Brandon Gill, who chairs the task force, led the questioning during a hearing examining birth tourism operations and their connection to U.S. citizenship law. Lorentz declined to answer, telling the panel that responding could incriminate him.
Gill described the exchange afterward in a post on social media. “I asked the founder of ‘Have My Baby in Miami’ how many babies his birth tourism business delivered to foreign nationals in the United States,” he wrote. “He pleaded the Fifth and claimed that if he answers my questions, his words may incriminate him. His own website says more than 2,000.”
<blockquote class=”twitter-tweet” data-media-max-width=”560″><p lang=”en” dir=”ltr”>We started investigating “Have My Baby in Miami” in May. Then its birth tourism website disappeared. <br><br>What happened? <a href=”https://t.co/Mt09cJaj4h”>pic.twitter.com/Mt09cJaj4h</a></p>— Congressman Brandon Gill (@RepBrandonGill) <a href=”https://x.com/RepBrandonGill/status/2094858475763310916?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw”>September 1, 2026</a></blockquote> <script async src=”https://platform.x.com/widgets.js” charset=”utf-8″></script>
That figure comes directly from the company’s own marketing. Have My Baby in Miami previously advertised on its website that it had facilitated more than 2,000 deliveries for international clients seeking U.S. birthright citizenship for their children. The company’s services, as described in its promotional material, included medical care, travel and lodging logistics, and guidance on visas and documentation for pregnant clients traveling from abroad.
Birth tourism refers to the practice of pregnant foreign nationals entering the United States on temporary visas specifically to give birth, securing automatic citizenship for their children under the Fourteenth Amendment. The practice has drawn scrutiny from lawmakers who argue it opens pathways to visa fraud and chain migration, and who have raised concerns about clients traveling from nations considered adversarial to U.S. interests.
Lorentz’s invocation of the Fifth Amendment means the task force does not have sworn testimony confirming or contradicting the number his company once claimed publicly. Under oath, he offered no figure of his own.
The exchange fits into a broader pattern the task force has documented: operators marketing birth tourism services openly to international clients while resisting congressional efforts to quantify the scale of the practice. Members have pressed witnesses on client volume, payment structures, and how applicants for tourist or business visas disclose — or fail to disclose — their intent to give birth in the country.
Gill’s task force has used hearings like this one to build a public record around an industry that operates largely through word-of-mouth referrals and international marketing rather than public disclosure. Lorentz’s silence on the specific number leaves that record anchored, for now, to the more-than-2,000 figure his own company once used to advertise its business.
