ATTOR­NEY GEN­ER­AL KEN PAX­TON INVES­TI­GATES SOUTH TEXAS HOS­PI­TALS AS PART OF WIDE-SWEEP­ING INVES­TI­GA­TION INTO POTEN­TIAL­LY UNLAW­FUL BIRTH TOURISM SCHEMES IN TEXAS

AUSTIN, July 29 -- The Texas Attorney General issued the following press release:

Attorney General Ken Paxton is investigating two South Texas hospitals after Spanish-language billboards near the U.S.-Mexico border advertised childbirth services to expectant mothers in Mexico. The investigation is part of a sweeping investigation by the Office of the Attorney General into potentially unlawful birth tourism schemes.

Mission Regional Medical Center promoted "Birth Packages in South Texas" and directed prospective patients to the website havemybabyinTEXAS.com. Knapp Medical Center in Weslaco has also been implicated as being involved.

"My office will investigate any suspected illegal birth tourism schemes in Texas, including the operations ...