Bird said that the 14th Amendment to the Constitution does not include people who visit the United States as tourists and then give birth in the U.S.

Brenna Bird, Iowa’s Attorney General, led Monday a coalition consisting of 18 attorneys general from the Republican Party in submitting an amicus brief to defend President Donald Trump’s executive order regarding birthright citizenship.

Last month, a group of Democratic Attorneys General filed a lawsuit to block the order after Trump signed the executive order just after he returned to the Oval Office. The order instructed the federal government not to issue passports, citizenship documents, or other documents to any children born in America whose parents were in the country illegally.

Bird said that the 14th Amendment to the Constitution does not include people who visit the United States as tourists and then give birth in the U.S.

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Bird said to Fox News that “if someone is on a visa for a tourist and has an anchor child, then they do not fall under the original meaning of United States Constitution.” Bird told Fox News that “often, taxpayers are the ones who pay for health care when this happens, either through Medicaid or hospitals.”

She continued, “[They] are paying for care to someone who is having a baby or for the state child insurance system.” “Each state offers a program to help kids who don’t have insurance. The taxpayers will be responsible for the entire cost.”

Attorneys general from Alabama (signing the bird’s brief), Arkansas, Florida (signing the brief), Indiana, Kansas (signing the bird’s short), Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri Montana, Nebraska North Dakota Oklahoma South Carolina South Dakota Utah and Wyoming have signed this document.

The filing claims that the order is in line with the “original meaning” of the Fourteenth Amendment and “reduces the harm to states”, because the current interpretation gives pregnant women an incentive to travel to the U.S.

The brief states that “the lure of American citizenship is what motivates pregnant woman to travel to America for birth.” Some women who are desperate to deliver in the United States cross the border on the day of delivery.

The brief was filed on the same day as 18 House Republicans, including House Judiciary Chair Jim Jordan, filed amicus briefs supporting Trump’s executive order in Washington, D.C., and Massachusetts.