Up to one million “birthright US citizens” will be coming of age, in China, in the next several years, and “birthright tourism” is how that happened, GAI’s Eric Eggers told Kayleigh McEnany of Fox News.
Back in 2009, President Barack Obama made the first of three separate policy changes. His administration created a categorical parole program that enabled Chinese nationals to visit the Northern Mariana Islands, a US commonwealth in the Pacific, without vetting or a tourist visa. In 2014, Obama and the Chinese communist regime made a reciprocal visa agreement allowing citizens of each country to travel between the two countries for up to ten years on a single visa. In 2015, Obama’s administration made a rule change to the B-visa that enabled tens of thousands of Chinese nationals to obtain US citizenship for their children annually.
These policies, Eggers explains, led to the creation of an enormous “birth tourism” industry in China. More than 1,000 companies in China advertise travel packages costing up to $45,000 to Chinese elites to go to the Northern Marianas (usually to Saipan) to give birth to their children, who then qualify as birthright citizens.
In his most recent book The Invisible Coup, GAI president Peter Schweizer reported there are between 750,000 and 1.5 million children being raised in China to Chinese parents that were born on US soil in the years since 2012.Schweizer dubs this group of Chinese-raised, birthright American citizens as “the Manchurian Generation.”
“You don’t have to take my word for it. You can take China’s. They have over a thousand companies in China that advertise this service to these Chinese elites,” Eggers tells McEnany. “China’s own estimates, by the way, suggest that up to 100,000 people per year travel from China and give birth to children in this country, over the last 13 years, given the loopholes that the Obama administration created.”
A Senate committee report studied the issue and concluded that women who obtain US citizenship for their children in this way is a “hedged bet,” and called the practice, “a rainy-day fund for a better life.” It noted that while birth tourism from China is most common, people from countries including Russia, Mexico, and Nigeria also take advantage of it.
The issue has been in the news since early 2025 when President Donald Trump issued an executive order directing federal agencies to refuse issuing citizenship documents to children born to illegal immigrants, or to children who do not have at least one parent that is an American citizen or a lawful permanent resident. A case testing the constitutionality of that order is pending now before the US Supreme Court, with a ruling expected this spring. Schweizer’s reporting on this is cited in an amicus curiae brief for the case that the Court is considering.
Eggers argues Trump’s birthright citizenship executive order is the necessary next step after border security to restore American sovereignty.
“Donald Trump was elected because of the travesty that Joe Biden created, allowing so many people to enter this country illegally,” he tells McEnany. “While they’ve taken good steps to secure the border, that’s not sufficient. Ending the birthright citizenship loophole that the Obama administration created is a very important next step to restoring American sovereignty. Donald Trump understands that. And that’s what his executive order last year was meant to address.”
