MIAMI — A Miami physician who built a business marketing American citizenship to foreign nationals traveling to give birth on U.S. soil sat before a congressional committee on Tuesday, September 1, and answered every substantive question the same way: by invoking his Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination, eleven times in total, before being dismissed from the hearing.
Who Dr. Lorentz Is, and What He’s Accused Of?
Dr. Wladimir Lorentz is the founder and chief medical officer of Miami Medical Concierge Services, marketed publicly under the name “Have My Baby in Miami.” Lorentz has claimed to have helped more than 2,000 women travel to Miami specifically to give birth, according to reporting cited ahead of Tuesday’s hearing.
Lorentz was compelled to appear under subpoena issued by the House Oversight Committee’s Task Force on Defending Constitutional Rights and Exposing Institutional Abuses, chaired by Republican Representative Brandon Gill of Texas, after Lorentz had previously declined to testify voluntarily, citing advice from his attorney amid a pending federal criminal investigation into his business.
At the hearing, titled “Protecting American Citizenship: Confronting Birth Tourism,” Gill posted directly afterward: “I asked the founder of ‘Have My Baby in Miami’ about his birth tourism business. He pleaded the Fifth. Again. And again. And again.”
Jeffrey Sloman, counsel for Lorentz, was contacted for comment by multiple outlets covering the hearing.
Crackdown
The hearing arrives directly on the heels of a major Supreme Court defeat for the Trump administration’s effort to restrict birthright citizenship. On June 30, 2026, the Court ruled 6-3 in Trump v. Barbara that Trump’s January 2025 executive order seeking to deny citizenship to children born to undocumented or temporarily present parents was unconstitutional.
Chief Justice John Roberts, writing for the majority and joined by Justices Sotomayor, Kagan, Barrett, and Jackson, held that children born in the U.S. to parents unlawfully or temporarily present “satisfy both elements of the Citizenship Clause” and “are citizens at birth” under the 14th Amendment — reaffirming the Court’s 1898 precedent in United States v. Wong Kim Ark.
Justices Thomas, Alito, and Gorsuch dissented, with Alito writing that the ruling extended citizenship “to virtually everyone who happens to be born in this country, including the children of ‘birth tourists.’”